There are lots of cultural opposition movements online, like against work exploitation, consummerism, car culture, surveillance, intellectual property, etc. I can find communities on lemmy for all those topics. But regarding a more general opposition to advertisements and marketing, other than the occasional person telling others to use adblockers online (what about ads in every day life?), I fail to see organized attempts to challenge advertisements. There is a lot that can be scrutinized. Ethical concerns such as manipulation, lack of consent and just the simple fact your attention is for sale. The effects range from damage to environment, to our mental health, to harming industries themselves, lowering product quality and maintaining monopolies.

OQB @[email protected]

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    17 days ago

    This is a good idea, there’s an anti bulldog community, there’s a fuck cars community, maybe make a community?

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      17 days ago

      Ok. Now I’m wondering about a good instance for that. Perhaps lemmy.zip, given its focus on tech and PCs? Although I picture this would fit dbzer0 really well, too.

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          16 days ago

          Great. Now it’s about finding

          • a name. “fuck advertisement”? “Fuck ads”? “Enough ads”? “Fuck the ad industry and all the rest of the capitalistic garbage feeling entitled to our time”? “My eyeballs are not for sale”?
          • mods. Pinging @[email protected] and @[email protected] as either might be interested. Plus you (if you want) and me.
          • rules. I think “be a decent person”, “no advertisement apologia”, “no divisive off-topic” is a good start.
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            14 days ago

            I am the filthiest fucking fuckmouth you’ll ever fucking meet, but I’d suggest avoiding “fuck” in the name. It’s like a fucking wall or a locked fucking door, that keeps too many folks away or fucking tells them not to take the fucking idea seriously.

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              14 days ago

              Fair.

              To be honest I’m still cooking the idea of the community, but when I create it, I’m taking the input of all you guys into account. (And probably pinging whoever might be interested on moderating it.)

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            16 days ago

            I vote fuck ads.

            It’s a little bit derivative but there’s a fuck trucks fuck bulldogs I think, fuck AI and like I mentioned before fuck cars. It might actually make it a lot easier to remember.