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  • Show me the statistics of how many people got cancer from second hand smoke in outdoor areas. I’ll wait. Just make cigarettes fucking expensive, like in Australia. Make smokers pay more for health insurance. There’s so many good ways of handling the problem. Banning people from smoking outside is just fuel for all the fucking Nazis that would love to get rid of the EU. And it won’t change a fucking Thing. As if people would suddenly stop smoking outside when no one is around.






  • Kleiner Tipp, frag mal den Schornsteinfeger wie das mit ner Härtefallregelung ausschaut. Meist geht das dann noch einige Jahre so durch. Ist zwar nicht schön, denn die Abgaswerte werden ja nicht aus Spaß begrenzt aber nicht jeder kann sich sofort eine neue Heizung leisten. Aber nach 15 Jahren Betrieb sollte man sich eh langsam mal Gedanken machen. Wir haben glücklicherweise bei uns in der Kommune ein nahwärmenetz aufgebaut. Das war ein relativ günstiger Tausch, zumal ich 45% der Kosten erstattet bekommen habe für den Umbau. Schau dir die Förderungen mal an, womöglich ist das alles gar nicht soooo schlimm.






  • I think it would make discussions about US politics even worse. But I agree with the rest. I personally would also like to have a more broad user base. That’d definitely spark more interesting discussions. Lemmy is a very weird echo chamber right now. It’s just very important that no one in the Fediverse starts to capitalize on them. That’d be the moment enshittification starts. And that will happen once the mainstream people come pouring in because greed will always corrupt the ones who have some form of power. Someone will take advantage of this.


  • I didn’t coin the term and I too believe it’s a huge generalization. However, “simpler” people are more susceptible to ads. The “normies” in question are the ones that don’t use adblockers, they believe ads are normal and they believe ads don’t affect them. Corporations capitalize on that. Better tech education would definitely help take some power away from corporations.

    Edit: even now you’ll find people that use Lemmy apps that have ads. The bigger the user base, the more greedy companies will find ways of exploiting the Fediverse.


  • It’s what happened to the internet. Devices were dumbed down to make the internet accessible for everyone. Now the “normies” are also on the internet, whereas in the past they’d belittle you for spending time on the computer.

    In time, the Fediverse will also be easily accessible. And where there are normies, you’ll find corporate enshittification.

    Edit: thanks for the downvotes because I explained the word “normification”. You’re overthinking this. It’s a term that has been around since before Reddit became popular. It’s a term that stems from 4chan. I don’t like the term, I just explained it. And yes, the corpos are to blame but they couldn’t do the things they do without a certain user base. And that’s not your typical tech savvy user base. How is that so difficult to understand?