I switched fairly recently. I was on Ting before, and they appear to be quietly sunsetting that service after Dish Network bought them a few years back. Hoping the same doesn’t happen to Mint. It’s been great so far. Incredible value!

Greater transparency under capitalism is always a good thing. I have to admit, one thing Trump did that I liked was to force hospitals to publish their prices. I can’t think of a good reason people buying a thing shouldn’t know how much it costs beforehand.

I would like to make a distinction between a “content creator” in the literal sense — just a person who creates content — and a “content creator” as the phrase is commonly used today — a person who makes a living by selling content or by giving away content to market something else.

I, for one, would be very interested in seeing more people on the fediverse creating content, but I’m not super interested in the fediverse becoming a marketing channel for professional content creators.

Of course, it’s an open platform, so pro content creators are more than welcome to join. I’m just not super excited about approaching them and saying, “please come hock your wares to us on the fediverse!”

I’ve installed a bidet attachment as a renter. Make sure you use plumbers tape and, after your install, leave a piece of paper under the installation overnight to make sure it’s not leaking. When you leave, uninstalling is pretty easy.

• The internet was way better before it became a giant shopping mall.
• Those cars that don’t have the flecks in the paint look like children’s toys.

Then, I have a couple that pre-date even boomers by many years 😅:

• Handkerchiefs kick the shit out of paper tissues.
• Cars have made the world a worse place.

Is it because interest rates are higher so investors are hanging onto their money? The money doesn’t flow as freely in that direction, but it has to come from somewhere. That means, the “free lunch” users have been having while money was flowing from the investor side has to end, and the tech companies put the squeeze on the users instead to bring in money from that direction.

I don’t know if that’s it, but maybe?

Only if there’s a community left there to sell! 😅

You’re right though. As many people as there are fleeing, there are many times that who will stick around and endure whatever changes Reddit makes. Reddit will have plenty of eyeballs left to sell ads against. Now, will the people generating content and moderating still be around? What happens long-term if they aren’t? That remains to be seen…

The real question is how much is Reddit willing to pay third-party app developers for making the Reddit UX tolerable enough for people to stick around?

I guess it’s good, affordable presence detection which could enable some really cool home automation use cases.

Just got around to playing (most of) Mother 3 last year. It has a lot of the same charm and is really interesting in its own way… but it still didn’t hit me quite the same way Earthbound did.

Long way to go, but it wasn’t all that long ago Reddit was more sparse like this. In fact, I’d say it was better then. Besides that, Lemmy and other Fediverse alternatives don’t have to become Reddit. They just need to be an outlet for discussion.

Reddit’s numbers made it easy to find someone to discuss just about anything with, but people will seek out their group and eventually self-aggregate, whether it’s on Lemmy, Tildes, or an old-school forum somewhere. The alternatives don’t necessarily fail if they can’t hit Reddit’s numbers.

This new frontier looks way more exciting than the old one from my perspective. 🎉

I feel like, even if Reddit walks back all these changes, they’ve already burned the community’s trust. I know I’m not going to get caught in their web again because now I’ve seen a glimpse of the future they want. I would guess others may feel the same.

They have all the power, so I know at least some of this will happen at some point in time. I’d rather rip the bandage off now and flee than wait around for another six months while they figure out how far they can move the community in this direction without everyone completely revolting.