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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’d complain, except it hasn’t gone up in a decade.

Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.

The guy is straight up insane. He’s obsessed with the letter X.

But I don’t care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.

Former RiFfer here on Connect.

Gives me similar vibes.

RiF fanatic here. Neither mirrors directly. But Jerboa wasn’t bad. And I find I like Connect the best.

I was all for “giving it a shot” just to see what the hub bub was about.

Other lemmings point out just how many permissions I have to give Meta. So, I’ve lost interest. Never was a big tweeter anyway.

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It’s the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald’s.

We don’t need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.

I mean, I went from Facebook to Reddit to Lemmy.

Seems like a good trajectory.

Next step is heading back to old “General Talk” sections of random message boards like it’s 2003. Is the Massassi Temple Forum (Jedi Knight game) still around?

No, but the F-150 is actually possible to build. Elon promised the world with the cybertruck, and it probably will never see the light of day. Certainly not in its prototype form and/or at the $40,000 sticker price.

As a result, people like me who used to love buying subcompact cars can’t get them anymore.

I think only Nissan still sells one. And I don’t really want a nissan.

Never bet against inertia. However…

1. I don’t have to be on reddit.

2. Inertia doesn’t last forever. And there’s a lot of friction.

Money = good things cost money to make

I hope the developer offers a way to pay to help out (like RiF having “golden platinum”)

My phone’s with removable batteries always needed new batteries. And the replacements were junk (nothing good on Amazon or eBay).

But the last 2-3 phones have been sealed. And they’ve outlasted the phone.

Only one that had a problem was my grandma’s (who wireless charged it 24/7) and it became swollen.

Ignore their reasonable critiques of your recent royal decisions and instead insist that you aren’t backing down, even if the pawns are setting the chess board on fire and leaving the game. Start praising other kings to make yourself look good b by association.

That’s fine. We make a new place.

That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.

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.

I would have thought so of myself, but yet, here we are

These federated let me things really really remind me of the way Reddit used to be about a decade ago. And frankly, now that I found the Jerboa app, I really don’t miss Reddit at all.

I just wanted to find a place where I could scroll around and chat with other nerds. And that’s basically what Lemmy is.