TheSaneWriter

I would be inclined to agree with you if they didn’t get rid of Premium Light. I think charging users for avoiding ads is completely reasonable, we live in a Capitalist country and video hosting isn’t cheap. Even still, axing Premium Light shows a desire to screw over users in order to achieve more profit, which in my mind makes YouTube scummy.

Yes. Making videos is a job and the creators need money to eat and remain housed, it’s reasonable for them to want to be compensated for their work.

Not really, but it would still be more helpful to explain how it’s better.

I completely agree. I’m personally holding off on heavy promotion of this platform until we hit 1.0. If people join too early and are turned off by the lack of polish, they may not come back after it’s fixed.

Unfortunately, this isn’t far from the actual rhetoric they use.

The people on the top have a variety of internal justifications for what they’re doing. Some say that the world is “dog eat dog” and that they are the only ones looking out for themselves. Others say that what they’re doing is for some grander good that will come once they acquire enough wealth and power. Some are deluded enough they have convinced themselves they are telling the truth. That and many more justifications fly through the heads of the ultra-wealthy and powerful as they continue spreading misinformation and enriching themselves.

It truly is disgusting that they’ve made this model. Tinder has always been severely flawed in my opinion, but this makes it several times worse.

Howdy OP. Please include your question, ending with a “?”, in your post title.

Indeed. The main thing I miss is the wealth of storytelling content, it felt like Reddit had millions of stories for me to read and Lemmy doesn’t have the same breadth of content.

It’s alright. It could definitely use some more growth, and it’s been a bumpy road with it being Beta software and with the federation issues, but I’ve enjoyed my experience overall.

I think the idea behind this is to spend your entire life alternating between periods of work and retirement. It’s definitely an idea I could get behind, though society now is not built for it.

I understand and sympathize with Rob on a spiritual level.

The copy, pasting, cutting, and moving features have improved significantly but I will admit it’s still not perfect.

I personally use Xournal++. It’s a really nice app and is FOSS.

You and I have the exact same ice cream preferences.

It really is, it’s how my probability class finally got me to understand why this solution is true.

I’m taking a more free-spirited approach to my instance, communities can be formed as the users please here. The ideal would be lots of medium-sized instances each with a few large communities, but ultimately people will join where they want and we don’t have much control over it.

If you’re a big player on your instance it may be courteous to make a goodbye post, but I think you’re probably just free to go. While most public instances like to have more members to some extent (including me, as a Lemmy instance admin), the largest plus of federation is it’s cool for people to shift around, the content will still spread.

Nope, but I’m leaning toward the side of caution. If the super-conductor is real it will be shown as such within a few weeks and will be revolutionary, and if not I’ll be less disappointed if I’ve steeled myself to the possibility.

It’s a shame that it so far seems that this superconductor experiment was a bust, but even still, I’m happy to see the scientific process at work.