Be the change you want to see! If the sub doesn’t exist yet, make it yourself, and people like you will come to fill it. Welcome home!

Congrats!

Yes. Look at the 2008 housing crash, and tell me average investors are intelligent.

Both of those are also true. Add in one with Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, Threads…

I’m in this picture and I hate it

Is anyone surprised?

Against it by “using” it in a manner which deprived the company of revenue - such as watching videos with an adblocker.

This, in their mind, counts as “shit that matters”.

As the social media juggernauts, these companies are viewed as the embodiment of everything they see as wrong with a capitalist/corporatist society, and in their mind, by dismantling or fundamentally changing and challenging these juggernauts, they can inspire and bring about the change they want in society as a whole.

No, I’m just pointing out the community you’re talking about. This is a piracy community, on Lemmy. If you’re surprised that this specific community is hostile to your arguments, I’m not sure what you were expecting.

Addressing the main point of your argument, the idea of the FOSS movement which many people in this community espouse is to have effectively a volunteer and donation-based society, just like Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse. Peertube comes to mind as a specific example. For a significant portion of that population, communism and socialism are also not considered bad things. For others, the crux of their complaint is not against the monetization of content, but the degree to which said monetization interrupts their viewing experience - 30 second ads on a 10 second video, for instance, or multiple 10 second ads interspersed at 30 second intervals throughout a 2 minute video, with the lion’s share of the revenue going to YouTube and not directly to the creators - hence the creation of platforms such as Bitchute, Nebula and CuriosityStream.

And what specifically is wrong with being paid a fair wage on time for work and effort matching the job description exactly?

gestures around I’m not sure if you know this, but you’re on Lemmy, not Reddit or Gab.

My guy you’re posting on a piracy community.

Definitely recommend Connect for Lemmy. Gives me RIF vibes and has worked really well for me.

Make it yourself! That’s the beauty of starting from scratch - if you can’t find a community, you can just make your own, because likely nobody’s done it yet.