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Wait until they see “Smoke Hub” in Bakersfield, CA.

It’s literally the porn hub logo.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.

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.

I hear there’s a lot of corn on the internet.

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.

Disney Plus. I can share it with my out-of-state parents with no trouble. And it’s such a great way to watch The Simpsons constantly in the background.

Since Netflix went bonkers and I had to cancel it, D+ is my go-to app. Hopefully they don’t go stupid like Netflix, too.

Same here.

There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can’t see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.

But that’s it.

I feel like the past 3 weeks I’ve moved to a new city. And I’m discovering new communities here.

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

Yeah. It’s like when people tell me I just gotta move on after my ex called out of the blue and said stuff so mean, I had to block her number.

I try not to obsess about it. But (in our analogy) it was only a week ago. I’m still going through the stages of grief.

Guess that’s why I don’t see any. Jerboa for the win!

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?

just find another web site

Okay. Done and done.

That’s fine. We make a new place.

That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

But not for me. I’m forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.