Nothing.

There is a massive gap between the aspirations of online consumers, and actual consumer behavior.

People will never ever support creators, that’s the bottom line. People are greedly little fucks and they like it. Don’t fool yourself.

I say this as a former massive streamer will millions of watched hours. People. Are. Shit.

“your version”

Dunce

I appealed (not because I actually gave a fuck) and they denied it saying it was reviewed by a human, it clearly was not reviewed by a human lol

Fuck that place anyways

I got banned for “advocating violence” in a comment that simply said “I work in support services and I can personally attest that women can be extremely physically and emotionally violent, and to continually portray men as ‘the violent ones’ in our society, we tacitly deny protection to all people”

Banned for expressing this horrid thought.

Are you dumb?

Do you not get the basics of this? You’re not asked to pick from all the questions when you answer the security questions in an authentication scenario… lmao

I’ll save everybody a click because it’s what we all want to know. “Dog Facts Unlimited” extension is on the list.

pick the first three, then always punch in your own version of “none1” “none2” “none3” as the answers. This isn’t rocket surgery.

My understanding is 100% up to date.

I developed games professionally for 2 decades and ran MANY startups. If you think I don’t get it, THINK AGAIN

Linux people need to get a fucking grip. It’s a shitty tool for EVERYBODY except developers.

The year of Linux on the desktop was 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025

You need to understand that your ZEAL shows how little you understand about the overall landscape of OS and tech.

Give it up.

Lengths required for this solution: purchase computer and use it.

Lengths required for Linux: spend 10 years understanding all the technical underpinnings so that you can get a basic install going and then realize you can’t accomplish 98% of what you need to because it’s a piece of shit not made for desktop use.

Yes.

Like any interest, people get so far removed from the original point, it becomes about something new.

Like cast iron. People go from not really knowing about it to learning how to cook with it, to learning how to do basic maintenance. About 20% of people go completely off the rails, and they start buffing and polishing them like they are fabergé eggs, and joining cast iron groups.

Privacy is the same. Learn the basics, follow the basics, relax and get over yourself.

Yeah because you’re totally a 65 year old that buys electronics at Best Buy

I read so many of the comments and concerns, and I don’t even disagree with them!

Just want to add my two cents.

Lots of people are talking about how they resent that Marketplace has become the place to sell. I get that.

However, this is more of the same in an ongoing evolution of online ads & classifieds.

Originally eBay was King. Craigslist was kind of under the radar and not enough of a threat that they did anything about it.

Then all kinds of little online competitors to eBay started to pop up and they were becoming reasonably successful.

eBay then acquired PayPal so they could squash up startups. It worked. They no longer own PayPal but things change.

Kijiji popped up and was eating eBay’s lunch on a local level. Instead of competing, eBay spun off local classifieds to another company which acquired Kijiji.

I don’t even know all the back and forth wranglings, but it’s all a giant multi-corporate game that’s been played for 30 years.

Then all kinds of different “out of the box” storefronts started to appear.

Now Meta got in the game and they are keeping eBay and Kijiji “honest”. They’ve gone ahead and integrated it with Messenger and other apps so you never have to leave their ecosystem.

It literally took 30 years, but I am finally content as both a buyer and a heavy seller, with all of the online options available. I no longer feel like they are trying to wrangle every penny out of me as of seller, and they let me voluntarily pay to promote my sales in MY terms.

That said, I’m not sure how I feel about needing so much information about people just to make an account.

On one hand (I’m very biased towards the seller’s perspective) I can actually see the need to apply as much verification as possible for new accounts. It’s been a severe deficiency in their product for years and years and years. And as a seller, I am exhausted with bots and fake accounts and people who want to hide in the shadows, there’s no reason to do that when you’re buying a vacuum off me and want to come to my home to pick it up.

On the other hand, I made my account years ago so I’m not subject to this requirement. But if I put myself in the shoes of somebody making a new account today. Holy fuck would I not be impressed with this.

I really don’t know what the answer is. I would never upload ID or a video of my face to them. I don’t know what’s needed here.