I never realized how significant killing third-party apps would be for me personally, but since Apollo stopped working my desire to use Reddit on my phone has dropped to zero. I've completely replaced it with Discord and "traditional" social media in my downtime.

If they kill old.reddit on desktop too, that will be the final nail in the coffin for me.

It’s all intentional. They know that overall it increases engagement and that’s all they care about.

Even Instagram and Tiktok let people fast forward videos. YouTube needs to get their shit together.

Yeah I love Youtube Premium on the family plan. People on the internet act like there's no benefit to it as long as Adblock and Youtube Vanced exist. Meanwhile I have an iPhone, smart TVs, and my whole family does too. My nieces and nephews don't have to get bombarded with ads, and that's well worth it to me. But the way they silently jacked the price up $5 per month was a total dick move that I'm not happy about. If they keep pulling this shit, it's only a matter of time before I find another solution.

Just about as much time as the Democrat candidate spends actually doing anything about it.

US politicians will probably mandate that people can’t set their AC below 80 degrees before they dare stop subsidizing the oil industry.

I think a much better comparison than Steam would be Spotify.

I use Plex for all my movies and TV shows for the same reasons you mentioned. All my stuff can be in one place instead of having to pay for Netflix, Hulu, Peacock, Disney+, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and whatever other fucking shit is out there.

Plex also supports music libraries, but I don't use that feature. Why? Because Spotify has literally 99.9% of all the music I want to listen to, and aside from maybe like Garth Brooks, the other 0.1% is on Youtube. Spotify did it right by just having a basic service that you can pay for and get everything you want. If I had to subscribe to Spotify, Tidal, Napster (Still a thing I guess?), and 4 other services just to access all the music I listen to, I'd go back to piracy.

With Spotify slowly starting to reach a limit in subscribers, it's unfortunately only a matter of time until they start pulling what Netflix is doing and finding new ways to get money from customers.

Software subscriptions are what really bums me out. Back in the day you could just buy your software and have it forever. Now Microsoft Office is a subscription, Adobe Photoshop is a subscription, and so much more. Nothing pisses me off more than when I install a basic app on my phone and find out it's actually a subscription app.

Literally the only major software I can think of right now that isn't subscription based or insanely expensive is Apple's Final Cut Pro at $300.

As long as I'm a mod here, no. Posts need to be on-topic and comments need to be civil, but I despise echo chambers and don't intend to create one.

Everyone loves to joke about how moderators are “jannies” and “free labor” but let’s be honest, all the power mods that have control of dozens of subs are making money off it. Political/news subs have loads of value to groups with agendas, and non-political subs still have value to corporations that want to advertise their products.

The only thing Sydrah did that was unique was getting caught.

I just woke up to this drama. This whole site is going through some growing pains. It's hard to establish a "niche" for this place when within 48 hours the place is getting brigaded by people who are clearly just upset that the community exists at all.

I'd prefer to not take a heavy-handed moderating approach. I don't want to create an echo chamber, so as long as posts are on-topic and comments are civil, I'm happy. That shouldn't be controversial. If Lemmy is the kind of place where moderators are expected to ban any users who disagree with them and site admins hand-select mods or shut down any community that slightly upsets users, then it's no different than Reddit.

Facebook "lost" a lot of users when GenZ decided they didn't want to make accounts, but Instagram and (likely) Threads, did a fine job supplementing that. Meta corporation as a whole doesn't have a big issue with maintaining their userbase.

With all due respect if you have a cold and work in food service you shouldn’t go to work.

If Twitter stops existing it will just mean less competition in the social media sphere and help further expand Meta’s share in the market. That’s not a good thing.

Phones take years to develop. Forcing removable batteries onto manufacturers under an aggressively short timeline would cost billions.

The irony of complaining about the Trump-Biden divide when OP seems to be deeply invested in every pointless conservative culture war

The upper Midwest really has some of the worst weather in North America. Get schlonged by freezing temps and snow for 6 months followed by heat for another 6 months.

And the end result is that every site is an echo chamber.

The state of the internet in 2023 is more or less, “Do you want the left-wing circlejerk or the right-wing circlejerk?” And if you want a place where people are allowed to express their views even if it disagrees with the majority opinion of the site, that no longer exists.

I’m sure it must be great if you identify as left or right, but it sure as hell sucks shit if you don’t align completely with either side.

Sharing location with an app is one thing. The crazies thing I see people do ALL THE TIME is sharing their location on social media. Using Snapchat I can literally see where someone lives and when they’re there or not there.

Seems like a really handy tool for stalkers or burglars. But so many people just don’t care because they’re used to having zero privacy all the time anyway.

Yeah people are making so many assumptions about how there is a conflict of interest with moderation in /c/lgbtq while there is literally zero activity in /c/lgbtq. There are so many baseless assumptions being thrown around. People should start posting in /c/lgbtq and if @Hurts proves to be an issue moderating there, he clearly is more than willing to step down as head mod there just like he did at /c/Conservative.

Shit's fucked, yo

I’d be in favor of that. Paid sick leave should be mandatory in all of America. Some states already have policies for that.

Even better yet employees could unionize.