Now we can doomscroll Lemmy!
Now we can doomscroll Lemmy!
Yep. Would have gladly paid $10 a month for Gold had it included API access for RiF (only fair, since I’m skipping the ads).
But noooooooo. Reddit didn’t want my money, evidently. So, after 11 years of a VERY active account (made or commented on 10-15k posts over that time), I deleted and left.
It’s fine. Lemmy stretches that itch to “scroll” something. And I can use whatever damn app I want.
Or, as a market-based solution: TurboTax raised the price for small business returns to about the same as hiring and accountant. So, now I just hire an accountant.
GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.
Exactly. How are exactly actors support to “share in failure” as their nonsense quote suggests?
Raised devout Mormon/LDS. 9/11 reaffirmed political conservativism. Church assigned me to be a missionary (age 19-21) in Portland, Oregon where I found liberals treated me with better respect than conservative christinans.
In 2006, my house rep said something royally stupid, so I voted for his Democratic rival. And like Pringles, once you pop you can’t stop.
Today I’m a fiery but loyal moderate democrat.
I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.
Agreed. Voted reliabily Democratic since 2013. And frequently democratic since 2008. I even contribute to Democratic candidates.
I used to be a solid Republican. I haven’t changed. It’s the freaking boomers who have collectively lost their minds and gone feral.
The right wing backlash recently is erasing a decade of progress.
I want to be a nonpartisan “middle” person. But damn it if they don’t keep forcing me to vote Democratic.
I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don’t mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.
For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.
Doesn’t it literally mean “whore-son” (huren-sohn)?
My German is poor.
No kidding.
I’m feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: “You’re either with us, or we’ll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism”
It doesnt have to be centralized. Just allow power users a function in their Lemmy app of choice to “group” similar communities into one mega community per topic.
Like a frontpage, but just for ONE topic.
And then we could share lists with each other or something.
It’s a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!
Elon Musk does fascist things.
But that doesn’t mean every bad thing Elon Musk does is fascist. Sometimes it’s just greedy. Or stupid.
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.
But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.
And that’s why we’re here.
Reddit doesn’t die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.
Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?
I don’t mind Spotify increasing.
Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars “$5 Hot N Ready” pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.
The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.
But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I’m gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.
Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I’m frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!