What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
I did lurk in my browser from time to time, but my app feed still felt empty :( I plan on creating a hexbear account when my English gets better anyway. Only a matter of years lol
You wouldn’t be criticised by a single person here for any level of language skills. The people here are less concerned with the tone or whether grammar/spelling is correct and more with the merit of what is being said. Plenty of the working class have less than adequate reading/writing skills, it should not exclude them from any space.
The liberals use it as a tool of making people conform to a middle-class suburban way of speaking and writing. We do not.
This might be more of a problem stemming from ADHD/neurodiversity because I actually struggle to articulate myself in my first language too. I often have to revise a text twice or more before I’m sure it’s communicating what I meant.
For example, the really interesting discussion of my original reply could come from me noting that advertisement has become a commodity itself. Look at mobile games, the line between the actual product and advertisement has become increasingly blurry over the last few years.
If you need one more shitposter on hexbear, well I’m down for that too. .world doesn’t usually appreciate my shitposts, no idea why that is
A very educated and smart now software engineer ML friend of mine always tried to express himself in the simplest way possible. He could’ve come up with a very sophisticated reason, but only said “if simple words are enough, why make it more complicated” when you asked him. This was fascinating to me, and reflected his approach to problem solving in general. “Use only the minimal amount of complex language necessary”. You want to communicate after all.
Sorry I know I don’t seem like my English is bad but you have to trust me :D sometimes I use a wrong term or make very vague statements or generally talk shit (and I am pretty good at that, too).
just wanna echo what awoo said; this is maybe the only place on the internet where i have never seen someone smugly corrected for making a linguistic misstep
we’d love to have you at any level of proficiency! (not to pressure you or anything of course)
Maybe a bit of pressure wouldn’t hurt, hexbear is The first only community I’m kinda vibing with, and be it only from a observer’s perspective most of the time.
For the first few week yes but then it reverted to working again, except you couldn’t log in through it or something I don’t quite remember the nuances.
It never actually went anywhere you could still visit us by typing the url in!
ok grandma
I did lurk in my browser from time to time, but my app feed still felt empty :( I plan on creating a hexbear account when my English gets better anyway. Only a matter of years lol
You wouldn’t be criticised by a single person here for any level of language skills. The people here are less concerned with the tone or whether grammar/spelling is correct and more with the merit of what is being said. Plenty of the working class have less than adequate reading/writing skills, it should not exclude them from any space.
The liberals use it as a tool of making people conform to a middle-class suburban way of speaking and writing. We do not.
Also your English seems good to me!
This might be more of a problem stemming from ADHD/neurodiversity because I actually struggle to articulate myself in my first language too. I often have to revise a text twice or more before I’m sure it’s communicating what I meant.
For example, the really interesting discussion of my original reply could come from me noting that advertisement has become a commodity itself. Look at mobile games, the line between the actual product and advertisement has become increasingly blurry over the last few years.
If you need one more shitposter on hexbear, well I’m down for that too. .world doesn’t usually appreciate my shitposts, no idea why that is
A very educated and smart now software engineer ML friend of mine always tried to express himself in the simplest way possible. He could’ve come up with a very sophisticated reason, but only said “if simple words are enough, why make it more complicated” when you asked him. This was fascinating to me, and reflected his approach to problem solving in general. “Use only the minimal amount of complex language necessary”. You want to communicate after all.
Sorry I know I don’t seem like my English is bad but you have to trust me :D sometimes I use a wrong term or make very vague statements or generally talk shit (and I am pretty good at that, too).
just wanna echo what awoo said; this is maybe the only place on the internet where i have never seen someone smugly corrected for making a linguistic misstep
we’d love to have you at any level of proficiency!
(not to pressure you or anything of course)
Thank you, I appreciate all your kind words :)
Maybe a bit of pressure wouldn’t hurt, hexbear is The first only community I’m kinda vibing with, and be it only from a observer’s perspective most of the time.
consider this your pressuring then! join the community you enjoy posting in OR ELSE
(nothing will happen but you’ll have more fun if you listen! 
)
friend your english is far better than my [other language]
this is specifically not true, typing the url would take you to a domain name auction for a solid while
For the first few week yes but then it reverted to working again, except you couldn’t log in through it or something I don’t quite remember the nuances.