No. Only way to not use AWS is to not use the internet at all.

It’s like saying how to use the internet without Akami or Cloudflare… you aren’t in 2026.

amazon is backbone service of the internet dude.

These are pulled from the item descriptions. OP probably bought something ‘for flat butts’ and boom it goes in their preferences.

Mine is literally just all things I bought from amazon. So yeah.

It thinks I’m married with two kids, because well, I buy lots of toys and things for women for the holidays… well yeah because I have nephews/nieces and two sisters… so of course I buy things for kid and women regularly as gifts.

if you aren’t taking care of your health via exercise, you’re not that smart, are you?

your mind can only function as well as your body can. a good diet and exercise increases your mental capacities.

you can click through to the source material when it’s linked.

but nobody is doing that, and when I admit to doing it people tell me I’m deranged.

how does that even work?

like isn’t giving it the inputs of your groceries the same thing as making the list yourself?

or is more like they say ‘i want to cook tandoori chicken this week’ and it just pulls from a generic recipe the ingredients list?

Yeah, that’s true. One thing that drives me nuts about local elections is… there is no useful info on the candidates, not from themselves, not from news papers, not from anyone… it sucks.

almost all the ‘info’ about my local candidates was… arguments on Facebook about why candidate x or candidate y and an evil demonic force, or an angelic savior of the people.

most people don’t enjoy thinking. they also don’t enjoy running marathons.

because both things are painful. they are also time consuming.

they only becoming enjoyable or worthwhile when you have a sufficient level of practice. for someone who is a couch potato, running a marathon is impossible without months or years of hard work, and they also likely think marathon running is stupid and pointless and there is likely something ‘wrong’ with people who run marathons.

thinking and using your mental faculties are no different than your physical ones.

on reddit it would be 6000.

30K users is small potatoes. even niche subreddits have userbases larger than that.

hey don’t forget all the mental health communities here…

and which instance you start out on… is going to heavily influence your experience/content and get you branded/blocked by a lot of the userbase

activitypub is a protocol. like email.

instances are just what provider you want to use, gmail, hotmail, outlook, etc.

and the ‘platform’ lemmy, piefed, mastroton, pixelfed, is just the aesthetics

what, you don’t think it’s fun endlessly memeing about doomerism and murder?

‘special shampoo’

is that your code for jackin’ it in the shower?

yeah, my reaction to the headline was ‘what the fuck’.

but then i realize i’m the weirdo who doesn’t do that. some folks can’t be more than 5ft from their phone without having an anxiety attract

which is why being able to block entire instances is necessary… because some of them overwhelmingly populated by mentally ill nutcases who feel entitled to harass everyone who doesn’t believe their insanity.

and who think any tepid disagreement with them, is akin to physical violence against their person.

yeah well, that’s why the internet was better when it was mostly people of similar dispositions and beliefs.

Right, so if your neighbor feels harmed by you buying a new car, are you going to return it to the dealership to make his feelings not hurt anymore?

Or is he just a weird stupid asshole who needs to get over himself and realize what car you buy is none of his business and has zero impact on him?

You say you are being civil… but what you are doing here is being a condescending arrogant jerk, you’re just caching it out in ‘polite’ terms because it gives you plausible deniability, but you are very much lecturing me on how to behave and further denying my experience as valid or real.

When a woman you know has been raped, do you suggest to her she not get raped again by being more civil to her future potential rapists?

Further, personally, I find it so weird and creepy that you tag people. That tells me that you take shit on the internet way too personally, and project your feelings onto everyone else because you fail to realize other people are not you, and you want to get up in their business, as you are doing here with me. And I don’t regard that as ‘civil’ I regard it as raging asshole behavior, just played out in passive-aggressive terminology. Because clearly I upset your feelings and you can’t let that stand, because in the end, it’s all about you. Just like weird neighbors who feel the need to ‘inform’ you they don’t like the color of your front door and will sit around and stew and resent you over it… instead of just not caring and focusing on their own front door color. Because they need to control other people due to some weird issue they have in themselves and they hate and resent what they can’t control…

And from where I stand, it’s so weirdly insane to expect strangers to cater to your own emotional states. I don’t go up to random people on the street and demand they listen to me and then threaten then when they get pissed off or weirded out. But people online… do that every moment of every day.

Yeah, agree about old forums. Miss that.

But also it did work well on reddit when it was a small niche community of like 10,000 or less users. the problem is growth destroyed most communities on reddit because you can’t sustain a niche community with 100,000+ people, it enevitably becomes slop

Yeah, you’re right.

All you can do is try to contribute to more chill spaces, but the majority of the activity is going to be nutty people with crazy beliefs endlessly repeating themselves in a circlejerk, because well, they have vastly different priorities in life than more moderate and well-adjusted folks.