Why not Linux? They can surf and do most everything they want. Plus when they have a question, you’ll be in a position to support it.

Because the content creators have the upper hand for now. If you won’t agree to their terms, they go to the next streaming service or start their own.

Then we’ll sub after it has been fully released and binge.

My Wife and I talked about this price increase and we’re cancelling. If they ever get around to releasing Stranger Things or Wedneaday we’ll sub for a month to watch them. Or Aarr!

Yeah, I’m not getting the outrage. They don’t want to deal with the potential headaches of legal issues from piracy, and they acted. Not like we don’t have a bunch of instances to view pirate communities. It doesn’t make them bad guys, and I don’t view it as censorship.

You’re thinking of CS Lewis. Now imagine if pre-early teen me asking this person about Neuromancer by Gibson. Their head would have exploded. One saving grace about my suburban bedroom town is that we had a good public library. If I wanted the good stuff, they either had it or could get it.

While we don’t like what these services have become, lots of people forget how bad comparative services were before these came along. Example: bookstores. Everyone dreams up some ideal bookstore that didn’t exist for the majority. Growing up, my local bookstore was run by a religious nut who refused to get Devil literature like Lord of the Rings. The good bookstores were in Ann Arbor, which was a 45 minute drive away. Chains like Borders, B&N, or web stores like Amazon were a huge positive change.

Not at all. They created a great browser, which is what us end users wanted, but they never achieved their ecosystem goals.

Not only that, they had goals beyond just a browser. They wanted to create a whole OS ecosystem integrated with the browser. They released Firefox as a side project to just get a browser in everyone’s hands while they worked on Mozilla. Turns out the OS ecosystem in a browser was a bust, and Firefox was a winner. Just the Mozilla devs haven’t stopped being bitter about it. The old Netscape motivations around the project have been a boat anchor.

Nope. He took Twitter private, so he doesn’t have to publicly disclose Twitter’s finances.

So this is just an own goal.

Beats the hell out of the Republicans deciding it. The Pandemic outed them.

Aren’t summaries and reviews covered under fair use? Otherwise Newspapers have been violating copyrights for hundreds of years.

“If you flag our lies, we’ll cry!!!” -Republicans

In early June I decided to give Lemmy the old test drive, and I haven’t left. Bye Reddit.

There is a whole lot of, “the leopards won’t eat MY face” in here.

It assumes everyone wants to play by the rules literally and spirit. Meta won’t do that.

That just reinforces the decision to leave.

It’s like a car company saying their hot rod is way too fast for the public. Now lots and lots of people want it, especially those willing to pay through the nose.

The way he setup Pao so he could look like a savior is still the worst thing he has done. Or maybe dealing with CP as a mod of jailbait.

That’s not the point for Reddit. They need to show a path to profitability for investors on the Reddit planned IPO. They plan on harvesting every last ounce of user data, and those third party apps deny them that every last ounce of data. That is why they won’t back down.