gnuplusmatt

Agreed, it gets a lot of hate tho. Directors cut is definitely superior

still rocking 802.11b?

they're asking for you to hand over your wallet, repeatedly

there are levels of data hygiene and levels of inconvenience people willing to put up with. Pumping less data points into the machine is still better than pumping more

We're a weird mix of nerds in our mid to late 30s, some care enough about privacy to not have Facebook, but had been on whatsapp since pre meta.

Some refuse to install new apps, because "ugh not another one"

Definitely a compromise

it was a difficult choice - I pushed for them all to join signal, but there were some holdouts.

Whatsapp was e2ee, which discord is not. Discord can run in a webbrowser or a sandboxed flatpak on my desktop. All messengers suck, what ya gonna do?

discord is my compromise platform, because the only other platform all my friends could agree on was whatsapp, and fuck meta

this is some doctor house putting postits under people's chairs predicting their responses in advance shit

I felt lemmy was successful the first time I was attacked by a hyperfixated debatelord just like on reddit. If cloning the reddit experience in the fediverse was the goal, for me mission accomplished 👍

when the email came through for the price hike, I told my wife we should drop the family plan and use more advanced adblocking and invidous etc - apparently my demo didn't pass the wife and children test... so guess who's continuing to pay for YT Premium?

my instance has downvotes disabled - it allows me to move on with my life. Only upping just seems more zen

does this not just make disney+ like it is globally? where all the "hulu" content lives in its own section, just on ours its called Star