Sean, I didn’t mean to offend you or insinuate that I didn’t like Barbie. I have a daughter, and watched it with her and watch the dreamhouse show with her on Netflix all the time. I actually really liked the movie - except the long boring parts where they tried to justify Barbie’s existence in our modern society.

Yes, those movies also have heavy product placements, but it doesn’t somehow excuse all other movies from having them, if that is your point.

My point is that piracy has already impacted our lives. The commercials in movies are the evidence. Further piracy will cause either more ads in media or less content that targets the demographic of people that pirate (ie 18-35 yo men probably).

Or they’ll start injecting ads directly into the media.

Oh wait, they’re already doing this. I forgot about the 45 minute Chevy ad in Barbie.

How can any Fediverse instance withstand that kind of force? Really the only way is to not save anything, or perhaps some sort of blockchain for all the comments and posts?

I don’t know, I know it works in a lot of places automatically, but I’m not sure how it works. Maybe if the thumbnail has some sort of pointer to the real image?

I really need hoverZoom+ to work on Lemmy. I will use anything that allows that, and this may be great, but I’ll never know because no hoverZoom.

I’m really hoping this is too advanced for 90% of Reddit users. Reddit is such a shithole compared to 10 years ago.

For everyone.

Reddit just got worse the more people used it.