this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2023
198 points (98.5% liked)
Asklemmy
43835 readers
781 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy π
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Oh sure, I get it. The problem is determining who is legitimate and who isn't. Since I never requested any of these spams, and even legitimate businesses will frequently send you messages even when you carefully opt out of their offer to send that spam, it's pretty much a waste of time to bother playing these stupid games with any of them (at least in the US). If we didn't have politicians hell-bent on stripping us of even the hard-won internet protections we've managed to obtain, then maybe the unsubscribe button would actually mean something here.
It also may be commonly illegal in some countries.