You know it's bad when the almost constantly unhinged 'Empress' is the one speaking sense.

uBlock Origin forever and always. I've recently reinstalled Windows within the last 30 days and thus have a fresh installation of my browser and uBlock Origin – I have already blocked 609,521 ads, wild.

https://ublockorigin.com/ (Platform links at the bottom)

This looks like Spez&co are attempting to implement a way for users (Probably Corporations, Influencers & Celebrities, let's be honest) to monetise their audience on Reddit. Frankly it goes against everything Reddit was supposed to be, but unfortunately they've made it very clear they don't exactly give a shit about the end-user any more, so I'm not at all surprised.

Five years ago, if you had asked me if Israel would be committing terrorist attacks across Palestine, Lebanon and beyond, I would have said absolutely not.

I would have been wrong, even back then, but jesus fucking christ, what an absolute shambles.

How my government supports this state-sponsored terrorism is beyond me.

https://ripped.guide/ can be pretty handy.

This will definitely change the game for me. Jerboa has been a nice stop-gap, but as a paid Boost user previously, I'll be jumping back in with Lemmy too.

Wild that the answer to young people being exposed to literal genocide and having an opinion about it, isn't to try and do something about the genocide, but to call it indoctrination and try to ban it.

Make it make sense.

Turns out we should have been helping Ukraine against Putin's fascistic colonialism instead of supporting an entirely separate set of fascists commit genocide in Palestine.

Seems weird that they'd want to go after their voter base so publicly.

The annoyances filters in uBlock Origin take care of these, I believe there are a few filters specifically for this exact issue, named appropriately.

Israel isn’t targeting non-combatants

How many thousands of children have been slaughtered by Israeli troops?

If you want to be pedantic, and you're talking only about this specific attack, children were killed in these pager/walkie-talkie blasts too. Are they enemy combatants to you?

Don't be a genocide apologist.

Can't speak for others, but my decision to stick with lemm.ee stemmed from seeing how active the owner is, the minimal defederation and the bot & moderation policies meaning there are minimal bots, and I've yet to currently see much spam issues, which is nice.

Also helps that the owner Sunaurus is an active contributor to the Lemmy project as a whole, so we get patches and fixes relatively quickly.

For those that didn't see the rest of this tweet, Frankie Hawkes is in fact a dog. A pretty cute dog, for what it's worth.

Especially considering, as far as I can tell there seems to not be any new features.

In fact, they're limiting colour options now and the canvas is smaller.

Tell me your healthcare system is broken without telling me your healthcare system is broken.

Man-child overpays for company, makes a concerted effort to ruin the things that make it good, then complains that it's not good anymore.

For someone who claims to be smart, Elon is a fucking idiot.

I've never been so happy to have the ability to root my phone and flash a new OS onto it. This shit is absolutely insane, I'm surprised there isn't more eyes on this from non-profits globally.

Man, seeing Germany side with genocide once again was fucking not on my bingo card.

I don't imagine things will get better under the new right-wing government either.

I regrettably also have this drawer.

Attempts at cleaning it usually end up with the drawer now being somewhere else, but it clings to life somehow.

I think they're just a fact of life at this point.

Honestly, I don't know if it's the fewer users, the lack of trolls, the newer apps I've been forced to use or the topics that I've been getting into since joining Lemmy. But I have been considerably more active here both commenting and posting, than I ever was on Reddit.

It may have started as a way to do my part for the growth of Lemmy, but it's not been about that for me for some time now.