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Ads, ads, and more ads. Especially once my feed got flooded with that “He Gets Us” bullshit every other post. I finally found out about Apollo only about a month before the APIcalypse happened, and the thought of going back was draining. I participated in r/place as a last hoorah before deleting Reddit, and that’s where I saw the Lemmy ad… Haven’t looked back since
I'll second the He Gets Us ads. They were extra obnoxious after learning more about the background of that campaign.
Peeking back into Reddit now is jarring. I've gotten accustomed to no ads here. Ads are endemic over there, to the point of being a major distraction from the actual site content.
The idea of religious ads as a whole is just abhorrent and disgusting
It's just the next "logical" step after proselytizing. It's just a bunch of trying to sell your religion to others.
“Worst trade deal in the history of trade deals… Maybe ever”
uBlock Origin + Raspberry Pi with Pi-Hole and a strict block list with regex.
I haven't seen an ad on the internet in years. Even on reddit.
Reddit's crimes were worse than just it's ads.
Most of the front-page posts on reddit were sponsored content, so you still saw plenty unless you have a good way of blocking those out. On Lemmy I have a blocklist a mile long so I’m not constantly inundated with crap I really don’t care about.
Never had the energy to muster to figure out that whole process… also I’m on apartment-wide wifi
Yeah, Reddit did a lot of shitty things, but the constant religious ads shoved in my face was just the final push that made the entire user experience itself annoying for me
Oof, yeah, that's understandable. There's still ways to set that up, but yeah if you're using WiFi provided by the apartment complex, the setup just got more complicated.
It’s super annoying too, cause I had a pretty nice router that’s just had to be shelved since I moved…
Granted the internet speed itself is better than my last place, but I hate not being in my own network
You could potentially find the best spot in the apartment for reception and set up a repeater router for your “private” use if it’s not against your lease agreement. Then you’d be able to directly connect to e.g. hardwired things, roku TV or local server if you have any.
Would that impact my internet speed at all?
Also, how would I go about doing that
Yes, anytime you're extending a WiFi signal, you're essentially cutting your speeds in half because WiFi can only run half-duplex as opposed to full-duplex like wired ethernet.
Duplex means you can send signal in both directions. Full duplex means you can send signal in both directions at the same time. Half duplex means you can only send in one direction at a time. Simplex means it can only go one direction and you need two cables to do both directions (a lot of fiber-optic connections are simplex with two cables, one for each direction of signal. Light can't really go two directions at once.).
If you add more repeaters, it literally keeps "repeating" the data sent back and forth, slowing down the WiFi because it has to repeat the same data more and more and more, as you add more repeaters.
Source: Took a WiFi class when I was getting my network admin degree. You're never supposed to have more than one WiFi repeater for this reason. Mesh networks are different.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/difference-between-simplex-half-duplex-and-full-duplex-transmission-modes/#
So basically more trouble than it’s really worth, is what I’m hearing.. I do a lot of gaming, so cutting my speed is basically out of the question
Right. I usually try to make sure I can live somewhere I can be in control of my own connection, but I understand that's not always available. I've been in the same position before myself and it was a bummer because it felt limiting.
There's some options where ad-blockers are VPN based, like Blokada for Android. That means you could log in to the VPN with your personal machine and get ad blocking that way. You could turn it off for when you game if you game on PC, or if you play games on console, you can always leave it on because it won't affect your consoles.
There are ways to do it that do not cut the rate in half, e.g. dedicating one band to the internet connection and one band to your client connections, using two routers (one as client, one as AP).
Instead of RaspberryPi with Pi-hole, you can install dnsmasq and block unwanted domains.