I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.
I agree. There should be some sort of a la carte service where you can pay a couple of bucks and use it for like a day.
I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don’t mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.
For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.
Disney Plus. I can share it with my out-of-state parents with no trouble. And it’s such a great way to watch The Simpsons constantly in the background.
Since Netflix went bonkers and I had to cancel it, D+ is my go-to app. Hopefully they don’t go stupid like Netflix, too.
Same here.
There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can’t see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.
But that’s it.
I feel like the past 3 weeks I’ve moved to a new city. And I’m discovering new communities here.
I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.
Creators also need to make money. I doubt Peertube has ad revenue to split with them.
In fairness to YouTube, creators do keep about half the money (in exchange for YouTube hosting the content).
No ads and no user payment?
So… who pays to keep the servers going? Who pays to produce the content?
That stuff is expensive! We’re paying for it somehow.
what’s frustrating is that many of those websites are still there. but when I use Google to try to find them, they don’t show up in the results. not that they are buried on like page five of the results. they literally don’t show up anymore.
That actually sounds pretty good. Especially on a sausage pizza.
Road Guy Rob talks about how highway engineering works in a fun, highly animated way:
Here’s one about a bike lane disaster – where the city screwed up and undid it after a week:
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.
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 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!