Except it just goes in a circle.

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It’s tribalism, embraced by people who are proud of just barely graduating from animal status.

If you like that reality garbage, I won’t yuck your yum, but I enjoyed not having to see any of it. I miss being able to forget that shit like Obese Hoarder Wars or Little Person with 13 Kids exists.

Having to configure settings all over again on every single device pissed me off, especially since the new app didn’t even have subtitles customization of any kind. As someone who uses subtitles for almost all viewing, nothing turns me off of a streaming service faster than being stuck with shitty black bars and gigantic blocky text by default and being unable to change it.

And for fuck’s sake, nobody likes video previews with sound, and you can take your credit-skipping autoplay and shove it up your corporate ass.

I sign into “max” now and get bombarded on the home screen with basic cable reality show trash, and every time that happens it just makes me want to use it less. The only thing keeping me coming back is the occasional Soderbergh project and an as-of-yet still decent catalogue of movies, though even that has dropped off noticeably.

I would drop my subscription if it wasn’t bundled into my phone plan.

For me it’s because of Cinemax - ie Skinemax - which used to be associated with the softcore porn they’d play late at night.

It always mystified me that HBO Max was even able to use that name since it was so evocative of another premium cable network.

This is just water? I mean, I still won’t buy it, because shipping water in packaging to places where there is a perfectly good supply of water on tap is wasteful as fuck. They’ve at least got the right idea using aluminum, which is much easier to recycle. And this marketing is hysterical.

Edit: on further investigation they sell flavored sparkling water, so it’s like LaCroix? Well hell. I’m sure it still tastes like the ghost of a berry, but my kids love that stuff for some reason, and it beats buying soda.

Every time someone posts the original I have to watch it all the way through, and it always improves my day.

Yeah, I actually migrated to a new instance today because of a few users who were seriously begging to be downvoted, and lemmy.one didn’t allow it.

Way too many ignorant bigots hanging about to not downvote.

I feel you. Ultimately this is a problem of community self-regulation. Users have to downvote inappropriate content, and mods have to remove it. If that’s not done, the only thing you can really do is add the offending user to your block list or look for a community that functions better.