• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
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        It is just mindless pursuit of the forbidden for algorithm cheering reasons. And then you need to have had hot sisters to lust after growing up. With so many one children families you end up with a relatively small proportion of the population that could even care.

        On the other hand, adding one incest adjacent keywords to the title, if it means 3% more clicks they’ll do it

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          I mean, we all know all those step-siblings (or actual siblings) videos are pure bullshit, but you’re right, it seems they attract some serious clicks. Or so I’ve been told.

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            Those click could be superstition about algorithm. I often click on them, it’s not because the word “step” but the word is there anyway. Porn sites aren’t sophisticated enough by and large to do proper a/b testing and find out if the word step make want difference. Especially when the actual content doesn’t even play with the incest concept itself.

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              I get you, but you can’t deny that “genre” still is a huge hook, also anime is full of that shit (the whole “they’re not actually blood related” bs lmao).

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                I don’t know, for me it feels chasing the forbidden for forbiddenness’ sake. The biggest clue to that is how the actual content does really do anything with what the title promises. It doesn’t change what’s on screen

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    All of this led to me ditching all of those (except YouTube, this is without a real alternative due to the content exclusively hosted there) and starting to self-host my stuff and joining the Fediverse.

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      you can use invidious or piped on PC and newpipe on a phone. just be careful cause i heard google removed newpipe from the playstore and someone put something malicious with the same name, but im not sure how that situation is going

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    Lemmy is great but the majority of you guys have a, r/notlikeothergirls vibe.

    Like you know something about the world and by saying, “I am not mainstream I am alternative,” you are making yourselves inclusive in some way. You don’t know anything the rest of the world doesn’t already have some idea about. Some sort of secret knowledge. I think my favorite thing I have seen on here is people thinking they are private and secure on the Fediverse. Despite the fact you are on a self hosted instance of someone’s hardware and handing your privacy and security to someone random or an entity at random.

    Being inclusive is not how you educate people. It’s how you isolate your knowledge and make people think you are a jerk.

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    Man, this is depressing. While I wasn’t “raised online” since I was raised on dialup and couldn’t block the phone line all that long.

    I still remember when google was the new kid on the block and the general feeling about them across early Internet forums.

    Microsoft was evil because they copied everybody else’s stuff and wanted to charge for it. Apple was clueless making expensive junk. Sun was a darling for a while at least until they started pulling shit.

    Enter mother-fucking-Google. Ethical. Honest. Not evil. Smart. Supporting open source. And on top of all that, FREE to use. Like Microsoft wants to charge you for hotmail if you want an inbox > 2MB? Fucking EVIL!!! Google is ethical because they are completely free!!! And I hear they are working on an email service too. Google just wants to shepherd the internet and protect it from companies like Microsoft, Apple, and AOL.

    Oh Google.

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      A company that survives long enough eventually gets turned to the dark $ide. Greedy asshats will always ruin a good thing for their own benefit

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        Any company that becomes publicly traded gets turned to the dark side. That’s the factor that does it because they have a legal requirement to do everything they can to maximize profits.

        Trying to sustain perpetual growth will always lead to companies fucking over their customers and employees.

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          While I feel this is true there are so few privately owned companies that prove this as fact. Holds breath that steam never fucks over its customers

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      They did. It called “Wall Street” (1987), where they told us that, “greed is good.”