OwlBoy

Wild!

He’s always felt off to me. And it’s not just because I’m into Apple products. I find it hard to articulate. But I see I’m not alone, thanks for sharing.

You just described why subscriptions are rampant in the software industry.

We use to have upgrade pricing and paid major revisions for software. But things changed to progressive models. And then things like what you described came along over extended periods of time.

So Rossmann is a lobbyist for an activist billionaire?

I think right to repair is important btw. Not questioning that.

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I forgot about all those extra aspects.

That’s a good point about how I mitigated the worst aspects.

I have a similar feeling about Twitter. I hate algorithmic status/tweet timelines. But I never had them, due to third party clients. So I was in a different world when it came to Twitter.

And I think we just fundamentally disagree about the value of the awards in smaller communities. It does not matter to me if they had value for sorting. They had social value.

Most awards were anonymous afaik, or at the least the awarder name was not prominent or important to anyone. So the idea it was a badge to puff up the awarder does not hold weight for me.

I thought awards were fine. Though I used Apollo, and it tastefully displayed them and never had giant highlight boxes around comments or any other adornment nonsense.

In smaller communities they had symbolic value. In massive ones it was kinda just noise. But like I said, not really an issue on Apollo.