#FreeSchool ⬅️ (see hashtag) @freeschool@qoto.org

Using #Google is like being used / abused and mostly about making them more money

Sometime I feel you're going backwardƧ FA$$$$$T using Google & YouTube without privacy filter sites...

I would prefer educating yourself more or improving habits in others as more of the main focus and activity as Google only without actually *improving people / their habits* is surely bad)

Use proven filters / redirects...
e.g. #Invidious for #YouTube
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=bD3JKr8L6Ag

Use Less #Google or more #Privacy sites

"...leadership is suffering from a kind of moral bankruptcy, and has lost the ability to distinguish right from wrong"

- Salman Rushdie #quote #Freedom vs. Finance [ #Morals #Bankruptcy #Greed #Profit ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

"We need all of us, whatever our background, to constantly examine the stories inside which and with which we live. We all live in stories, so called grand narratives.

Nation is a story.
Family is a story.
Religion is a story.
Community is a story.

We all live within and with these narratives.

And it seems to me that a definition of any living vibrant society is that you constantly question those stories. That you constantly argue about the stories. In fact the arguing never stops. The argument itself is freedom. It's not that you come to a conclusion about it. And through that argument you change your mind sometimes.…"

- Salman Rushdie #quote #Freedom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Rushdie

Mastodon users posting for-profit links are against some of the ethos...?

There are tons of links here and they supply tons of adverts, tracking, ! Problematic no?

Q. Are for-profit links comparable with the Mastodon ideology or am I totally wrong in asking?

We could work more actively inside system to non-profit / free ideology...
- more warning tips by design or education
- better promoting of PeerTube or Invidious even if still using YouTube, can still filter it using Invidious)

Basically not letting Commercialism in (again & again)
+ even not feeding our people and 100,000,000 links to YT !

(or say 13million if there are 13million users per day posting 1 Google YoutTube link x how many clicks each post gets!)

Doing le$$ direct youtube.com links literally save$ the world from the money they gets and use against us- e.g. use:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=bD3JKr8L6Ag

#Invidious #privacy #links on #Mastodon / #Fediverse

"I don’t think advertising, in the abstract, is evil.
I do, however, think it’s insidious to inject advertising into every pore —especially when those pores don’t belong to you, like when you’re the YouTube app..."

- Joe @joesteel -
Source: https://joe-steel.com/2024-04-12-YouTubes-Screen-Stealer.html

#Advertising #Aggressive #Adverts
#Empty #Capitalism #FreeSchool

@matt Every wondered why almost always shop rivals are next to each other or in same space (often 2 big supermarkets facing each other)?

@nicemicro
Hi try these privacy filtering links!

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=bD3JKr8L6Ag

What do you think about using these link in the future? :D

@info And also to be honest solutions aren't seemingly really there apart from personally using something less or more... So while your points are good / sincere even it's like:

"What else to do in a locked / well-secured Capitalist system"
(of course "try some things constantly" is the answer but not 1,2,3,4,5 steps to kill things or even reduce them significantly for most people's confidence. So while for me or you or anyone it's enough to score anything, for others even buying into it actually helps them (really, I almost mind less or sympathise now people using mobiles without consideration as it's counter-intuitive to use google Android but then not want to use most of it or the bad side).

Culture starts with the 1 or 2 like a petri dish...

@info I don't think it's about closed web as much as 'less commercially exploiting web' or similar that people want (it's a different stance even if looks like they are closing).

I read https://hamishcampbell.com/fediverse-how-can-we-do-better/

and basically still feel after reading "We are not ready or even close, though great sentiments".

And the order of being ready seems very important first and needed before jumping into more unknown things / magnifying more problems with more people / involving more commercial entities... even if all is happening all at the same time, this seems very much first things first and to wait until it is much better...

@info Even though I just wrote something for-blocking, I think this could also work (showing my flexibility) BUT... (AND A BIG "BUT" HERE...)

BUT for the level of people now I've tried and tested. If really I only found 5 people say on whole of Fedi that can even hold conversation... or simply can believe in anti-google stuff (many devs still love it / see it as ok) then it's not worth going all-in with META or BLUESKY etc - because we have no plan, no strong friendship, have our own family we are in a infinite loop and almost bluescreen of death with. Nobody wants to lock horns or spend time for 'maybe' a better outcomes... so they are stuck and using more of the same google youtube links shows for me just how uncaring or un-meticulous people are... so why speed that up by bring twitter like people here (said kinda and just for short).

We are measurably shit (uncommunicative or in SMS mode here, don't believe in anyone, aren't anti- to the core sometimes... so anyway said in positive light, we are not ready- I've / we probably spent most of our life trying so wasn't waste but I don't ask people to go to the gym to lift so heavy weights, they are untrained for it).

"Hiding" is slowing down I would say and building culture start from communications, which again positively I said people say "I don't have time" is because "I don't make time, EVER" so people don't see TIME is needed, and non-perfect ways between is to make personal and global progress. The system only makes perfect ways and that kills us faster / is a debt more than progress every time..

"So go back to your cave people if you can't make friends with me / others..." is what I'd say for now

(all is changeable in what I said when more measurably the signs show it - as 1 or many here)

@onepict Just getting money to people is a problem and political - so I see this as a main block to growing.

(I don't like using banks for example or the 100 conditions for having one or the fees for each transaction makes it deliberately useless).

So this is one part which something 'like' crypto (but not that) can do IF NOT universal friendship and giving also in between... So many players here, but separate it seems and also trust issues perhaps (or not respecting people without coding skills eliminating participation which we all need even if it dilutes things to redistribute time, skills EVERYTHING IN ONE POT!)

We have to respect money, but also respect it less each year by finding a way to
a) not use it
b) use and transport it easier
c) something else so baselines and roots die out... (sharing, even embracing capitalism inside a better bubble of 'us' and not 'them' etc)

@witchescauldron
A tough choice for movements when @Gargron＠mastodon.social etc (and others I've questioned) are not thinking about how Google YouTube.com links are helping supply MA$$ advert money to BigTech...

This adds towards the imbalance and eventuality that *they will encroach on us using all that money*. They might not have developed Mastodon as a link machine but have to respect this and change + use redirect / proxy link to suppress opposition.

We could filter all these things using redirected integrated link or as added option in Mastodon to offer it using auto-added links like:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=NpBPm0b9deQ

Even if the original youtube.com link is also there ADD THE ALTERNATIVES + LINK UP WITH @invidious

and even collect all the good guys' software and UNITE!

#Mastodon #Suggestion #Defence vs #BigTech #Advertising #Capitalism #Money #Power #Meta #Bluesky #Google #YouTube #Links

Post title again:

Developers don't care so much about spreading Google or commercial links and supplying advert money from OUR clicks, sourced FROM Fediverse / Mastodon posts to THEM... (without education our users are weakest links)...

LEFT OVER / SIMILAR PARTS:

Pushing de-federation and going away from #meta isn't wrong and seems the natural binary choice when you get down to:

"for profit / monopoly monster, greedy gods"
vs.
"something else with more meaning... decentralisation, Mastodon ethics"

So to attempt to block or do something about this is natural if there is no other way technically or by design to avoid Meta BlueSky etc. Legal notices or clauses I see helping with countering this, and by not adding somehow this leaves that door open with those we know have money as priority and without using same morals/thinking. Basically they get the best from or rape open source kind of worlds for their own pockets mostly)... <==== a classic problem to solve to stop them piggy-backing + then fucking everything.

So my answer to all this is some legal disclaimers and notices on all Mastodon footers for example to say:

"No to scraping / collection / commercial use etc
AND
creativecommons.org/ licenses by each person

A simple option and checkbox to enable/disable would mean the space usually under text box (or wherever) would make it UNMISSABLE as a legal notice just say "It's conditional for corporations to get consent first" etc

Disclaimers and creative commons we all need anyway probably as creators and the commercial world we now know growing underneath us.

⭐ I guess more than "closed" or "open" web it's more about "not for commercial use" / "non-commercial / non-profit" ...