Wait until they see "Smoke Hub" in Bakersfield, CA.
It's literally the porn hub logo.
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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 don't mind Spotify increasing.
Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars "$5 Hot N Ready" pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.
The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.
But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I'm gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.
Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I'm frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Don't forget the "Jesus fish" on their logo.
I'm from out west, so it was a very foreign concept for me when I visited my sister in Arkansas and saw a lot of "Christian Family Auto" type places with Jesus swag trying to win over business.
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.
Yes... let's make people return to the most EXPENSIVE cities on the planet.
I know like three tech workers who permanently moved to Appalachia, the Ozarks, etc. They ain't coming back. They can get another tech job in 3 days or less. So, they're just going to do that.
This is a GREAT time for smaller companies who've been desperate to hire talent. They will be more than happy to accommodate remote work.
I hope lemmings sticks. It's cute. It pokes fun at ourselves. It's great.
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.
Quora, basically.
I don't think I've ever successfully read one of those, because Google brings me to the site and then it demands I log in. They even go so far as to blur all the content. It's really really stupid.
It's funny you post this. Not more than 5 minutes ago I was trying to figure out what was wrong with Firefox on my phone. I kept trying to login over and over again on mobile and it didn't work.
A week or so ago, I really felt like reddit was nearly an S tier social media platform. It's heartbreaking to see it completely destroy itself. It's nearing Twitter in how bad it works.
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At this point, it's just a temper tantrum.
Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the "annoying older brother" and anything they want is "stupid."
Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.