Another big obstacle is the general UX of these platforms. Major companies have teams of user experience analysis and researchers that, while not always "winning" as compared to product or business driven decisions, absolutely have a (generally positive) impact on the product. Onboarding, retention, etc.

The fediverse has all the standard frictions of most OSS, like talking about itself, it's technology, etc when the fact is 99% of users dgaf.

I might go so far as to argue the perceived complexity is a bigger barrier than the risk of sabotage from other businesses. I am optimistic the growing list of third party apps will help solve some of these issues, as long as they take things like the sign up process and server selection into their scope.

This mentality explains a lot of open source.

It's not just users to users.

Third party app users are likely some of the most engaged users Reddit has, so if or as those users find a new home, the overall content quality on Reddit declines and lurkers shift their attention elsewhere.

And keep in mind, it's not Reddit v. Lemmy. It's Reddit v. Netflix, Instagram, TikTok, etc because Reddit is competing for attention.

I was watching this happen day of for a show in Montreal just recently. There were few seats available for weeks leading up to the show with resale tickets around 200 to 300 CAD a piece, then day of big chunks of non resale seats came available for a fraction of that.

Artificial scarcity. Total and complete scam.

And the versioning of those textbooks to make sure it can sell for exactly nothing.

Waaaay more painful. Lately, primarily when via Chromecast, I get ads that are three to 15+ minutes long. Whole music videos forced into the middle of my kid watching a kids show. One time I got a literal sermon as an ad. The whole thing.

It feels like it should be illegal, especially for kids videos. I'm doing dishes the room over and have to stop, dry my hands, dig through my phone to find the skip button.

Personal Capital or whatever they rebranded to has been generally stable since I left mint a few years ago.

This is more UX than UI but the inconsistent volume is a nightmare, adding insult to injury. Everything I want to be equal or quieter is way louder.

In Catholicism a communion wafer is quite literally the body of Christ -- not symbolic. And Christ, as part of the holy trinity, is literally God. So Catholics do actually believe they're chomping down God every Sunday morning.

It doesn't sound like it would be a great service to pay for given your needs. But keep in mind these are services, saas, there is no expectation that I, as a customer, will take any of it to the grave with me, and I'm not like... unaware of that fact.

What I get in return is a growing library and the ability to listen to just about anything at no additional cost, some nice features like auto playing similar music after an album or playlist ends, and what I consider a perk of not having a physical or digital library to care for to repurpose that time as I see fit.

Sure, it would be a hugely sad day if Spotify fully fucks me, and there's plenty I don't like. But that risk is built into my decisioning, and the value is absolutely there.

Clearing read posts is something I miss.

I agree, however, for my use cases little to none of that quality content came here and I've struggled to get it through other channels. My local subreddit I've taken a peek at and it's as active as ever, along with a few others that are top of mind.

I'm glad to have learned about the fediverse but it is, currently at least, something different and I'm disappointed I might work in a quick web based scroll through some key subs.

Honestly the same thing I used to do with Facebook before it became a total and complete wasteland.

Amazing, you should get trumpgantt.io or something and Gantt chart this quality content.

Every other post is about how shitty of a company HP is, I'm not sure you'd be winning any integrity points.

I doubt it.

Each season was better than the last and it wrapped up really nicely but liking his stuff in general is required. Nothing was better than Vice Principals, imo.

I honestly don't get the hate. People obviously want to order restaurant food to have at home. Maybe they're watching a series, studying, have kids, are introverts... like who even cares the reason. And they're willing to pay more. Why not try to accommodate that?

To me it sounds like the issue is UX related (contacting customers) and store related (expediting orders in the best sequence). Neither of those seem like the solution is wishing people wouldn't use the service.

Why?

A world where you could picked based on the user experience of the apps instead of slice of content? Sign me up. To hell with that HBO Max app.

Many people that did that have careers and families and a general opportunity cost for their time. Ripping CDs is so unbelievably far down on my priority list it doesn't even register.