Yep. Disney+ (for now).
Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.
What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.
Yep. Disney+ (for now).
Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.
What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.
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!
I dream that one day there is a RiF for Lemmy. But alas, he’s building an app for tildes.
Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.
GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.
I’d complain, except it hasn’t gone up in a decade.
Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.
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.
The guy is straight up insane. He’s obsessed with the letter X.
But I don’t care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.
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”
Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.
Former RiFfer here on Connect.
Gives me similar vibes.
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!
RiF fanatic here. Neither mirrors directly. But Jerboa wasn’t bad. And I find I like Connect the best.
I was all for “giving it a shot” just to see what the hub bub was about.
Other lemmings point out just how many permissions I have to give Meta. So, I’ve lost interest. Never was a big tweeter anyway.
It’s the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald’s.
We don’t need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.
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 mean, I went from Facebook to Reddit to Lemmy.
Seems like a good trajectory.
Next step is heading back to old “General Talk” sections of random message boards like it’s 2003. Is the Massassi Temple Forum (Jedi Knight game) still around?
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Wait until they see “Smoke Hub” in Bakersfield, CA.
It’s literally the porn hub logo.