Yes, even though a lot of my opinions are considered controversial here. On Reddit, unless you sort by newest posts, you're going to get buried in the comments section.
danielton
joined 1 year ago
So... what if a news article links to a toot or Lemmy post? They're most likely to link to the instance that the post was submitted from, and most people aren't going to understand that they have to go search for the post from their home instance if they want to like, vote, reply, or retoot. Email made sense to people because it is basically all direct messaging, but public linking from articles and such is going to be difficult.
I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.
About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?
They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it's not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.
Unfortunately, it's still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the "best of the best" among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.
Seriously. Unless they get fined at least a billion, it still made them a profit.
Absolutely. I'm not buying the "fair and square" argument. Firefox won over IE fair and square, by being better in every way, but that didn't last long enough.
Ever try using Google's sites in Firefox or Safari? Most people use Google services and started using Chrome because of Google hounding them to switch. Hell, every major site says to just use Chrome now, and if a real Chrome ever comes out for iPhone, people will just download Chrome because it's what they use on their computer.
Sincerely, a frustrated Firefox and Safari user
And the fact that Chrome has a virtual monopoly on the browser market isn't going to help them either. Other than Firefox and Safari, every other browser is Chrome, and most web devs only test on Chrome.
It's IE all over again, and I'm a bit scared that iOS's app store restrictions are the only thing stopping Chrome from being a complete monopoly.
Tipping culture and living wage are not the same thing at all. It's the owner's responsibility to pay a living wage.
Plenty of places, even in retail and food service, pay a living wage without resorting to using the registers to beg.
And this, folks, is why tipping culture continues to get worse.
That would be nice if the instance wasn't always overloaded. Ended up blocking the Piped link bot because of it.