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  • Not a counter argument, not supposed to be one.

    For me it’s less about bringing change and more about not giving money to people/corpos I dislike. It’s not perfect, I for sure don’t have a 100% success rate, but I feel better spending a bit more at a company that is probably fine instead of at Amazon and co.

    I don’t expect any one company to change because of this, let alone the system. It’s just out of my own volition. I can’t avoid trading with companies and people in general, but I can choose who I trade with.

    EDIT: Perhaps it’s because I’m under the impression that shitty corpos will do shitty things with the money I give them, so by not spending my money with them I know that I won’t be funding whatever it is they’re doing personally. Does it make a difference if I alone do it? Definitely not. Do I still feel better knowing I didn’t just directly fund something awful? Kinda





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    I don’t think there’s a writeup, but I can search for explanations later, I’m kind of on the go rn. These filters are technically optional, it’s just another piece of trust you have to hand over to your instance admin and hope they don’t turn them on. Also you have to trust that these optional filters are the only ones, and that there won’t be any hidden filters.

    If you wanna give it a shot then by all means go ahead, but I personally feel very uneasy knowing these exist and the dev is willing to implement algorithms to punish people who post “bad content” in their eyes



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    The fact these filters exist in the first place are not a good sign. When Microsoft introduces new shitware that is “disabled by default” people are skeptical that it might not be disabled for long, but when a fediverse dev does it to block content they personally don’t like it’s fine? This goes against the entire concept of the fediverse imho. Just block people you don’t like yourself