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It was all getting spoiled for me in social media anyway.

I thankfully haven't seen any spoilers for anything since moving to Lemmy... on other sites it's silly easy to accidentally run into a spoilers for anything remotely popular 😭

Unless you follow ST communities here... then oops I guess spoilers are in your feed for each episode 😳

Let's hope we can export them too then! I stopped using WhatsApp a few years go, but it would be nice to have access to my chats, unencrypted... at the moment only iPhone users can do this

That is why I pay for open subtitles

Lost me right here. Personally I'm not ever going to pay for a service where the work done by volunteer users, for free, is filling some random person's pockets. An argument can't even be made a la RedHat here - there's literally no value being added to the volunteers' work by OpenSubtitles...

OpenSubtitles literally has pulled a shXtter here IMO

Nice one, not sure why it's geo restricted to the US, Canada, and Europe though, unless that's a limitation of the bridge software they're using. Could be a pretty neat selling point for a small subset of users, but I don't think it'll make people reconsider which Android they choose to upgrade to.

Also nice to see e2ee RCS implemented outside of Samsung and Google's apps.

For anyone looking at alternatives, there's AirMessage (if you have a mac, real or virtualized), and Beeper (not free, in any sense of the word, but supports even more messengers)

Fight with your wallet by...

• 🏴‍☠️
• An OSS/”source available" alternative
• Buy alternative from another company that has a less restrictive licensing scheme, make sure you are happy with the definitions in the EULA

If you want to go the legal route, see what they define "lifetime license" as in the software EULA. I am not a legal expert, so ensure you get professional guidance should you choose this

If you still have the original computer kicking around, depending on how the software licensing works they may have a license file saved somewhere (maybe in appdata, or program files). Grab that and pop it in the same location on the new system and see if that works

I don't see why not - there are loads of other sites, let's say DDL (roms etc) and various self-hosted blogs that chug along for years at the expense to the owner.

With Lemmy, the main concern would be growing storage, but that's mostly solved by using something like B2 or Wasabi to store images, instead of the local server. B2 also recently changed their plans to make it free to download to a certain extent (prior to this, you had to pay for downloads) which makes this route even more viable.

I'm aware of lemmyworld and dbzer0 being very public about their donations, and lemmyml has been run by the devs years before we migrated. Lemmee's admin is extremely active in the fediverse so that's likely to stay too. We've only migrated from reddit in the past few months, so i'd say a lot of lessons have been learned in that time, as well as the viability/sustainability of running reasonably big instances.

A fair few have folded in that time too, some just disappearing out of the blue (vlemmy, lemmyuk, lemmyfilm) and others not able to manage the moderation as well as abusive users. I don't think any have folded from it being too expensive to run - but I could of course be wrong there.

Personally, my blog site costs about $200/yr to run out of pocket, and is quite manageable at around $16/mo - comparable to a multiple-screen HD netflix subscription maybe. For a moderately used lemmy instance maybe you'd be paying $600/yr - about $50/mo which is still reasonably manageable. If just two users donated $50, your out-of-pocket costs drop to around $40. If all your users donated $2, assuming 100 users, your out of pocket drops to around $34.

The last time I checked, the largest instance Lemmyworld costs over $1k/mo to run (this also includes sister site mastodonworld, which is on separate infra but managed by the same core admin team IIRC). As of today there is a 4 month donation buffer, but looking at the graph on OpenCollective at least it looks like the admin team may need to cover a few hundred $ out of pocket if the buffer runs out, as monthly recurring donations is lower than the infra expenses. There are occasionally some very generous donors so I think it's financially sustainable for the time being.

Overall I don't think there's anything to be worried about, this is the fediverse so you're free to have an identity on any instance and still interact with the various communities. It's not like Digg or Myspace where "when it's gone, it's gone".

Wouldn't be surprised if it was related to the new "The Marvels" movie being an unfinished flop.

A few of critics have said that the film was single handedly kept barely alive by the actress playing the role of Ms Marvel, but fundementally the directors and the cutting room floor put out another generic heroes-from-earth-save-outer-space movie... where shockingly even the villain wasn't all that convincing

The first 30 secs of the trailer aren't even footage from the movie, that should pretty much say how confident Disney are about it 😳

Neat bot!

From fraud and lies, yes they should

This is illegal in most parts of the world already though.

I'll admit I'm a filthy passer by who hasn't read the article - is the CEO suggesting taxpayers' money be used to compensate in these instances? I don't think rich people should be entitled to the same/similar amount of protection available for those on the opposite end of the wealth spectrum...

I'm mono myself, but it's nice to read various experiences here of poly relationships.

I personally think i'm too selfish to survive in a poly environment though, and also I'm not really that interesting of a person in general - preferring time alone mostly.

Poly requires a ton of trust and communication, so for me it would fall down quickly with the wrong kind of partner(s)... especially as it takes me a while to trust others

That typo is pretty damn accurate TBH.

Pretty sure it's just Empress lol