For sure, as a teenager - interest in music switched from interest in music to finding music videos that got girls in 'em'.

That all depends on how, and the context in which it’s done. My first girlfriend would spend hours tickling my back in between sessions - I never forgot those sunny days.

Now with more aggressive tickling - it is akin to a violent attack, and my father used to tickle me until I couldn’t stand it, and then push some more. Often it ended with me in tears… so with my son, sometimes I’ll grab a foot and start tickling it like mad - but I have a MUCH shorter cutoff time so that it ends with him laughing.

So it’s not simple - but consent is a huge issue.

Sometimes there is VICARIOUS pleasure to be had - I never noticed ‘schlorp schlorp’ noises.

There’s a lot of truth in the adage that ‘sex sells’. To imagine yourself being in the position of the person on screen is rather a guilty pleasure, enabling you to take part in ‘consentual sex’ with someone by simply imagining that you are the one doing the act.

Upvotes are useful for determining what people like and dislike so you can sort posts and comments.

Karma is just a bad way to have someone crucified for expressing an unpopular opinion… anyone remember COVID?

Whatever your opinion (and mine was unpopular - still is, as many Thai’s STILL wear masks in the street - even if they’re walking down the middle of an empty street FFS) a recent study has proven me right - the lockdown did sweet FA (maybe a 1% reduction in deaths from COVID, but an increase from 1.5% to 40% in mental disorders reported in 18-45 year old people and MASSIVE economic and educational damage.

Hell yeah, bring on a bit of nude pussy!!!

When you need a bit more, there are a couple of ways you can do a quick search/copy/paste as new jokes/memes pop up and you get votes for the Lolz. Easy to farm a couple of hundred or more each time.

However, by talking sense in r/Thailand (i.e. from a perspective of someone who actually LIVES here) and call out stupid bullshit posts from wannabes (people who know everything about a country after a week’s holiday in a whore hole) and you’ll get a hundred downvotes in ten seconds.

Karma is crap.

Not really - as the weeks and months go by, people will gravitate… and individual groups can update their names/descriptions if they become aware of a similar instance.

Also consider - don’t sign in to YouTube. Set uBlock, and Sponsorblock, too - so when youtube does get watched, the ads and promotions get skipped.

Everyone here is missing the point - by signing in to YouTube, you give Google more power to dominate your life.

With a simple inoreader extension in Firefox, you can visit a youtube/youtuber/video page and subscribe the feed.

Search interesting channels and save them to Feedly, or Inoreader.

Pin those to Firefox, so that your feeds are always refreshed and visible.

To begin with, I’d stop her using the YouTube website logged in.

Set her up with Inoreader - then when you find something interesting, you can visit the ‘video’ page and subscribe to the feed…

If you log her out, that will mean she just uses it without logging in - which works ok for feeds. She can browse, but it’s fresh.

Just a few suggestions that work for me - via RSS feed (not subscribed in Youtube):

• Juicy Life
• Sci Show
• Simonscat
• FailArmy
• Daily Dose
• Vlad Vexler
• Big Think

With inoreader it’s a simple task to mark all items in a folder as read if you want to skip them. Also, with the inoreader account you can log in remotely at any browser, then you can find stuff you think is cool and subscribe - then that will show up in her feeds.

Not only video/youtube.

• !dadjokes works too - Lemmy stuff, any stuff.https://driveandlisten.herokuapp.com/home

• Then some interesting pinned tabs/bookmarks like https://window-swap.com/

• Then you should also show her the new Radio

I love this site, I found a couple of dozen and added them in pyradio app so I’ve always got interesting listening when I don’t want to stare at the screen.

I don’t know, I think I’d better post a question on Reddit.

But what about the new users who complain about the slightly less new users, who might simply be slightly older ex-Reddit users who wish to complain?

What about people who complain only about subreddits like r/donut - should they not, instead, complain about the hole thing?

I’m considering a new tack, to make posts complaining about people who complain about posts about people complaining about Reddit.

Do you think it will catch on?

Agreed. I saw your post and reddit.

Great news.

I only ever used Reddit in Firefox on desktop anyway - but now I use it a whole lot less (maybe just one reply per day trolling people with interesting posts they’d be better posting here).

Lemmy is a shit-show… but it’s OUR shit-show and we’ll adjust, and clever people will develop.

It IS monetized - right now by donations/crowdfunding.

What we need is for people to be more open to supporting what they want via micro-payments, regular donations, because that’s the way to say NO to advertising which brings in virtually no income for the amount of time and bandwidth it consumes.

I could just log in to BeeHaw…

This is hearbreaking news - and I’m a little shocked to realise that the creators of Apollo can’t simply walk away from the app which got scuttled (or, more likely, actively sabotaged by deliberately extreme Reddit attack).

They should be able to take this to court to redirect the affected people to claim their refund from Reddit.

You know that Google and Reddit own the internet - so just go there, and make sure you’re using a Chromium based browser because that’s the market share too.

That way, you can work to create a Fediverse whilst Google and friends succeed in closing all the loops to take total control of your internet and browser.

Other people will say they ‘search’.

Part of the marketing strategy is to make Microsoft, Google, Reddit etc the default.

Why reinforce it?

The issue is becoming accessible to Search.

Not specifically to become accessible to Google.

Here’s one example of something I found OUTSIDE the fediverse via search.

I use SearXNG, but I remember that one came via Qwant search and NOT via Google.

Language IS very important here, and it’s important to avoid always using ‘default’ branded options which are not and should never be considered the default.

Ok, not a stupid question - but annoying to assume that only Google is relevant.

Also, annoying that you’ll assume that searching ‘instant rice’ will pull results from Lemmy. Even searching Lemmy for ‘instant rice’ brings zero results.

• Instant rice simply had all of the good parts milled out If you really are interested, I’d skip it entirely - ‘instant’ rice is basically rice that got everything milled out of it, then it’s cooked, then dried - it costs a lot more and tastes like shit.

So I hope my answer will come up in your next search…

However, searching for ‘sending epub files to my kindle’ brings up quite a few… and down the list there, we see posts from 2022 in r/kindle, and entering reddit as an extra keyword pulls up more…

So really, we want to know if we search for something which should have results in Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world - and not only Lemmy, there are others - like BeeHaw) how long is it going to take before this gets picked up by SEARCH ENGINES (Let’s not say Google, or Reddit - these are bad habits unless there’s a specific need to specify).> instant rice

Hmmm the main question is whether it can get it’s content to show up in search results - this being the main selling point of Reddit and other platforms.

Right now, if you help someone fix an issue it’s pretty much walled in and unavailable.