Nepenthe

joined 1 year ago
[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If my grocery store required me to either buy an unwanted, overpriced store-specific subscription or stand there listening to multiple minutes worth of sales pitches for shit that I also don't want and could never afford, and this kicked in every time I took an item from the shelf, regardless of whether I decided I was even interested in said item, then yes, shockingly, I am going to do anything except what they're demanding. At that point, especially if they don't like me doing it.

"Try not to make your customers' experience repeatedly miserable or you will lose them" has fallen out of the playbook for no particular reason.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ctrl+F'ing my way through the transcript of a 38min crafting video to see when they're ever actually going to do the thing they made the video about, if they ever get around to it at all.

Somehow, more than once, the answer was no.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$20/mo would have kept me fed for the better part of a month a couple years ago. Money has almost never not been tight, often to the point of being inhumane.

If they start forcing ads, I'll just do what I used to do when I didn't have home internet and start downloading videos instead. Which is nicer to be able to hold onto anyway. If someone doesn't like me "stealing," they can fucking pay me.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

From an apparently uninformed discord user, deets? Granted, I've been annoyed at their insistence on monetizing via unasked-for "perks" I've absolutely never even thought to be interested in. But I've never felt like I was treated ill, and I assume there's something I haven't heard of

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So...not that I will ever be for such an idea, but how is requiring ID putting kids at risk. I thought that was a misquote, but no, that's what the article itself says. Are we really just saying whatever random words come to mind these days?

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm opening up a rival called "social media." Already, we're on everyone's lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They do, of course. They're just the reason no one on the team has a mic

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