Unfortunate but this is the truth. Too many of us have been accustomed to small luxuries like “affording takeout”, but we unfortunately have been priced out of being able to afford stuff like this.

It’s a tough pill to swallow if you’ve been doing it your whole life and think that a functioning adult with a full-time job should be able to afford some takeout every now and again. We are not the generation that gets to enjoy that privilege, it seems.

That’s what makes the “I’m not bought and paid for so I can say it’s a hoax freely” line so weird.

I’ve never understood how people not being paid to intentionally misunderstand the topic can go on about the hoax line.

That’s the thing though, it’s not Netflix vs cable anymore. It’s Netflix + Disney + Prime + whatever other streaming services have the shit you actually want to watch. And when you add it up, it’s just like cable packages. The only advantage is it’s all on demand.

I think it’s just a human problem. You or I may like to read long form journalism, but we’re in the extreme minority. It’s not dying because it was so hugely profitable.

Logistically too, if you’re trying to parse through the top 100 tweets in a day, and each one takes multiple paragraphs to get to the point, the amount of various viewpoints the average person is able to interact with shrinks dramatically.

Granted, it seems like everyone is taking the forced brevity as an excuse to just write +1 to pile onto their side, since that’s easier.

I’m a totally separate person, and I can also verify that forcing business users to use IE for certain services is definitely a thing.

I’m not sure what your point is? It’s not necessarily going to apply to ALL banks, but it’ll probably apply to SOME of them, and that will suck if it happens to be your/my bank.

We are the dumb poor idiots. The population in general.

I can’t remember where I heard it from, but there was a good line about all citizens (particularly Americans) believing they are “temporarily embarrassed millionaires”.

Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Discovery on Spotify is really good. I’ll listen to something new and be like “how haven’t I heard of these guys!” And then I check their artist page and yeah it’s like a few thousand listens total.

4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4.

It’s the IEEE-vetted random number.

It’s a classic right wing talking point. They like to present the Guardian as biased and bullshit as the Daily Mail or the Mirror or something.

Yeah, also still learning of course, but that’s my understanding of why Beehaw.org defederated. Too much new data getting copied over.

Massive numbers of users is great for a business, but not necessarily great for discussion.

Lemmy doesn’t feel like Reddit, but in a good way. Individual comments actually stand out, and it’s not a sea of lowest common denominator trash and reposts.

I think people should stop conflating big numbers with success. If anything, we’ve seen the kind of nonsense big numbers lead to, with an IPO on the horizon and all that comes with that.

Well, it’ll put Reddit in an odd place. Spez in particular has cited the Moderator Code as a justification to remove mods and instate his own.

THAT would be worse, since then instead of any blackout at all it’s business as usual (while being slowly crippled from bad moderation and decaying user behaviours).

The John Oliver thing is an alternative to THAT. They are technically doing what the users want, which was Reddit’s whole ammunition against them. Closing a sub of millions of people could be said as harming the site significantly enough that reddit steps in. Opening it and maliciously complying with the rules IS what the users want, so Spez will be hard pressed the wrest control of the sub while simultaneously saying he supports the protests in line with the Code.

I mean yeah, it looks to be mostly that way with Lemmy.World

I’ll admit I’m not entirely well versed in this, but what development? Is the API being continually worked on? I’d imagined it was relatively stable, especially given how awful Reddit has traditionally been with any kind of feature development.

Hell, they couldn’t even make their own app, they had to buy Alien Blue and then drive it into the ground for $$$

I do think bots are a major culprit. If you look closely, they account for a remarkable amount of the “content”.

I wish it was just the boomers. We have a whole new generation of greedy corporate bootlicks on their way up.

Yeah, this is what I’m most interested to see. Right now it’s a forward thinking, principled thing.

Once Relay, RiF, Apollo, BaconReader, and all the others go defunct, a lot more people are going to take notice. If they use the awful official app, they’re going to realize Reddit has changed dramatically and not for the better, and they’ve just been shielded from the worst if it with their 3rd party apps.

This is a really good point, and one of the reasons I’m happy to make my new online home here.

The type of people who act like this is nothing, or worse, act like there’s nothing that can be done and we should just roll over, won’t have gone through the trouble to come here. And yeah, I’m with you, they can all hang out and circlejerk the same jokes over and over along with the bots.

Best of both worlds, and we’re all happy. A bit of positive selection bias.