Its not really about the money, just that “life changing psychedelic experience” is being turned into a commercial commodity.

I do understand it, the tourism was already happening, shamans in high demand. Might as well streamline the experience.

It just feels wrong though.

This is from Wikipedia:

“It is believed that the Shipibo-Konibo are among the earliest practitioners of Ayahuasca ceremonies, with their connection to the brew and ceremonies surrounding it dating back centuries, perhaps a millennium.[19]

Some members of the Shipibo community have taken to the media to express their views on Ayahuasca entering the mainstream, with some calling it “the commercialization of ayahuasca.” Some of them have even expressed their worry regarding the increased popularity, saying “the contemporary ‘ayahuasca ceremony’ may be understood as a substitute for former cosmogonical rituals that are nowadays not performed anymore.”[20]”

“A commercial center that receives 1400 tourists per year.”

An intimate sporting retreat just like the ancient shamans intended it.

Technically speaking its all drugs for everyone all the way down.

Even besides the fact that mood and emotions are largely controlled by endocannabinoids. The difference between normal chemicals, medical chemicals and drug ones is a cultural distinction.

The reason we suspect the pineal gland is cause it has all the ingredients…

Which it also needs to produce the sleep molecule melatonin. Which is a triptomine.

The theory is that it shifts over to producing a large amount of dmt twice, at birth, and at death. (If i recall correctly)

That might just be a flavor autism honestly,

Source: i have one of these flavours of autism. People have often judged me for being high while i know there where no drugs were involved.

It doesn’t need to be, there is reasonable proof that humans and other mammals naturally synthesises (trace amounts off) dmt, which are presumed to be used and broken down incredibly quickly. We still don’t know why, what its used for or have hard proof where its produced (pineal gland is main suspect for having all ingredients in theory)

In theory something could trigger an effect that stops it from breaking down or produce it at a faster rate, therefore triggering psychedelics effects with out the consumed substance containing anything psychedelic itself.

Dmt is known for seeing (machine) elves, does not sound that far away from seeing mini people.

I dont really know these things but i always just assumed rye (and barely) was just a kind of wilder less domesticated wheat.

The entire add industry has been collecting preferences, likes, dislikes for decades. Its one of the most profitable pieces of information

No data is as useful as what makes you personally engage.

This seems to be an unpopular opinion but i personally had someone block me for presumably being too friendly and sincere, after an initial comment where i had agreed with them and defended their downvoted comment.

A second person blocked me after i pointed out that the person they where calling ai/a bot is in fact a well loved moderator of the community they tried to be a part of and they where simply misreading the room.

I don’t really mind that people remove themselves but it does worry me that tolerance of others have gotten so low that ideologically similar people will label each other enemies based on very basic misunderstandings of topics they agree about.

For every that doesn’t understand what this is about.

They are trying to filter content from 4chan

The images you upload gets scanned. If they contain the words “anonymous” it checks if it also contains “no.” And if it does it assumes its from 4 chan and then deliberately serves a misleading error.

Same,

Most of my apps are for open source stuff.

Voyager for lemmy, jellyfin, nextcloud, home assistent, Wireguard… even lichess.

Many of the official apps like my bank don’t have ads or price either.

I don’t know how there paying to get their app on the store but there there and there free.

People will buy it alright.

Rich people won’t care and its more profitable to sell to one rich person for 200x the price then to 100 poor people at 1x the price.

How about the part where.

“To get your first year of the post” “For 50c a week” Which is the monthly plan…

Cheapest be damned, what am i even (not) buying? Contractually obligated to keep paying for a full month/year or fined?

Make the prices also like 1995 and its a deal.

You dont need to limit yourself to just one, feel free to diversify your presence.

But for a real answer: The smaller ones; The smaller the more respecfull they feel.

Though more users does demonstrate capabilities. Not every server is fast or stable.

How do you picture this?

As far as i know many people try to advertise Lemmy on reddit but those posts are getting removed.

Are you suggesting we should crowdsource funding for actual ads? It might work to get it to stay and have many people see it but i am conflicted in the sense i believe todays internet advertisement is inherently harmfull and i want no part of it.

Especially considering it costs nothing to have none.

A selfhosted invidious on phone can also be tricked to play music in the background. A “bug” that youtube fixed in their own client and then made feature on premium.

I am not sure about “the need to build knowledge” but i am liking the idea of communities of specific interest and expertise with the idea anyone can go discuss things with experts.

Search engine? I started rawdoging urls a while ago.

The internet is increasingly more useless, the sites i really need are bookmarked anyway.

Please read it again, this is far from crowd sourced filtering.

This is “your opinion is wrong, this is your first warning to get back in line”

Crowd sourced filtering means the crowd choses what is and isn’t bad content but this is fully transparent preparing for Gleichschaltung to cull the voices of dissent and hinder social support for rebellion and the spread of footage showing proof of state sanctioned violence.