Asklemmy

uBlacklist: block SEO, clickbait garbage from Google search

Shutup.css: blocks comments on all websites; I enable it on websites (such as lemmy) in which the website is dedicated to discussion. This prevents me from seeing stupid MSN like comments.

AdBlock: Blocking ads. They are slow, they are annoying, they follow you and I hate them.

Privacy.com cards: Lets me lock a card and certain amount to a website I may or may not trust, and prevents them from charging more than I state. Has been VERY useful for Amazon Eero in which they keep auto subscribing me to eero Plus and “don't know what happened on their end”.

This is more so related to Xbox, but:

Filtering all messages from people who aren't my friends into a separate inbox that doesn't notify me. Blocking party invites from people who aren't my Xbox friends (prevents assholes in Overwatch from DDoS).

Block freely and block often.

When some nihilistic edgelord cares too much about others caring about something and screeches "WHO CARES?" or "NO ONE CARES" thought-terminating cliches to try to shut discussion down, I voluntarily say "I care" and that often shuts them up and whatever was being cared about usually continues.

It's a small thing, but I think it makes a local difference.

Shit talk misogynists

Remove anonymity.

I’m not advocating for that. The internet would be a boring dystopia, but it sure as shit would be nicer if every statement could be tied back to a real person.

Probably nothing since I have no free time 😕

Once in a while i dont respond to stupid comments....

Donate monthly to the Wikimedia foundation

Dns ad blocker and I don't use big tech sites almost at all.

Don't participate or be involved in the most popular online communities. I find once an online community reaches a threshold it goes to shit. Finding your niche people online is the best way to finding a nice place you belong.

Encourage people to leave behind toxic elements such as proprietary social media platforms and Windows. It's very healthy for the mind to have freedom regarding your possessions and not being fed rich-funded hate goop.

Run a pihole and block degenerates

Sometimes I'll write out a big mean comment, and then I just hit the back button instead of posting it

Agree with the narrative so everyone feels safe and secure

Stop feeding off what is given to you and look for and search for quality, informative, objective content that is not manipulated to play with you emotions.

The internet is many things other than just a place to waste away your time, energy and awareness of the world.

Provide detailed help troubleshooting people's tech problems.

My response might become helpful to many people in the future, even if it doesn't help the person who originally asked the question.

people like the hexbear news threads I guess

1. force privacy from companies
2. block most logging from vpn's
3. remove communist safehavens
4. force Roblox to remove stichface
5. make terms and conditions and privacy policies 4 pages maximum
6. disband all databrokers
7. burn drug selling tor sites
8. bring back vine
9. google chrome slowed down by 60%
10. destroy terrorist safehavens
11. thread's blocked from fediverse
12. decentralized networks like the fediverse and xmpp become popularized
13. tab groups in every browser that minimum 6 People use
14. downloading music becomes simple
15. no pop up ads
16. Facebook users DENCRASE by 18% .

-Improve moderation of major social sites with more penalties for harassment. I feel like the lack of proper moderation has encouraged people to be needlessly mean over petty nonsense and sometimes even ruin lives.

-Add more privacy protections

-Force websites that allow both minors and 18+ content to have NSFW filters in place by default for anyone under 18 (looking at you Twitter)

-Getting rid of intrusive ads

-Have websites show posts in order, unless it's something like Lemmy or Reddit where the other options at least make sense

-Websites should be given legal repercussions in knowingly spreading dangerous conspiracies (such as Facebook doing nothing about posts encouraging violence against a minority group in Myanmar eventually leading to genocide)

Argue with random people on the Internet so they can see how cool I am and how smart my ideas are.