As someone who plays in an orchestra professionally, I totally 1000% agree with you. It’s a weird fine line that I enjoy music, but I do it as a career because I really enjoy playing with other people and the music itself is almost secondary. Good luck explaining that to people who Really Like Classical Music, lol.

There’s a lot of elitism in it and it sadly alienates a lot of would-be concert goers, I feel like.

Agreed, I literally blocked that community because I was tired of seeing his name all the time and all they ever post is shit about him. I really don’t get it.

Found this article from a US gov’t site that talks a lot about this, kind of interesting to read.

I don’t have specific info on what’s harvested, but I have had mine active for a while and I’m at 300k tracking attempts blocked in the last 7 days. It’s absolutely wild.

Edited to add - they don’t specify what is being attempted, just what each company is known to track generally.

League of Legends, no doubt (and no idea how many hours across my two main accounts). Just… yikes on a bike, that one.

Other tops probably Sims if I can count all the different games. Stardew and animal crossing are up there as well, I’m sure.

If you have android, the duckduckgo browser app has a beta opt-in app tracking blocker service. I activated it a few days ago and it’s been horrifying how many trackers there are. Almost 50,000 since I turned it on maybe 4 days ago.

By holding myself responsible, and by being kind. I don’t want to dox myself but having a reputation of someone who can be relied on and is trustworthy, and of also being nice to have around and to be with, means that when opportunities arise they’ll think of you.

I honestly didn’t notice them until this comment chain, and missed them terribly from Relay. So, uh, thanks, y’all? Lol

Less than - if you look OP isn’t subscribed to AskReddit, so it’s 0% content they actually have subscribed to.

Same here, I like Connect but I can’t load a single comment on there so for now I’m on Jerboa. TBD where I end up permanently though.

Yeah, it’s just reposts so the OPs never see any comments here. I learned this when I blocked the bot out of irritation from reposts, and the entire community disappeared lmao

Same, honestly this might be the one thing that makes me choose Lemmy outright instead of visiting them both. I was SO tired of nsfw “dad” jokes.

I have no answer for you but just wanted to say thanks for posting this - I’ve been SO confused and I think I understand how to do this now. This thread should honestly be stickied somewhere for us folks who are still trying to figure this out lol