Wait until they see “Smoke Hub” in Bakersfield, CA.
It’s literally the porn hub logo.
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.
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.
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.
I will ditto what you said. IF you are on Windows, Affinity is fantastic!
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.
Don’t forget the “Jesus fish” on their logo.
I’m from out west, so it was a very foreign concept for me when I visited my sister in Arkansas and saw a lot of “Christian Family Auto” type places with Jesus swag trying to win over business.
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Mine is closed. But considering it has under 500 subscribers…
… Well, let’s just say if Spez forced mine to open, then the site would literally be on fire.
In some cases, in a very literal sense.
No. It’s protest over a CEO who is rude to volunteer moderators.
Spez is Dolores Umbridge and we’re watching Harry Potter 5 play out in real time.
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.
At this point, it’s just a temper tantrum.
Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the “annoying older brother” and anything they want is “stupid.”
Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.