propitiouspanda

Youtube already has music.

Just pick your song and listen to it...

It will literally never end.

This is why anyone who was excusing advertising at all is part of the problem and should be seen as a useful idiot.

Stop lowering your standards so people richer than you can be even richer.

And consumerism.

Probably until the influencers cash their paychecks and are forced to shill this bullshit to their moronic audiences.

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Useful idiots will be clamoring to pay them.

I swear, the rest of my life will just be educating my peers on how consumerist rhetoric does not serve their interests.

You could just use a phone not made by a major manufacturer.

I have one from Orbic and it's great.

Meh. I just got a phone for free from some company I never heard of.

Best phone I ever had.

"They're a business and they need to make money." - useful idiots

I agree with your assessments and lemmy definitely has a major issue with mods abusing their power "because they can."

The answer is to create new instances that don't allow abuses of power. We shouldn't be afraid of being 'defederated' from the abusive instances. Eventually, they will have their own echo chamber while the rest of us can converse without fear of censorship.

The most important reason is to combat censorship.

Yeah, no.

Those things are death traps and there's a reason why they're mostly prevalent in nations where people literally can't afford anything safer.