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After 25 years, Netflix will be shutting down its DVD rental service this September (dvd.netflix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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The last disc will be shipped on September 29th 2023 after 25 years of service.

After an incredible 25 year run, we've made the difficult decision to wind down at the end of September. Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members, but as the DVD business continues to shrink, that's going to become increasingly difficult. Making 2023 our Final Season allows us to maintain our quality of service through the last day and go out on a high note.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depends on how you define “hard left”.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, for definitions of "hard left" that don't include a penchant for rugged individualism, a nearly pathological hatred of taxes and libertarianism, a lot of reddit is just liberal on social issues, at best. There is still a strong libertarian current of thought that is quite opposed to anything that could remotely be accused of being socialist and leans hard into tech utopianism saving us from the predictable outcomes of our current course of actions. There are also sizeable populist and conservative communities there. Sure, you have politically oriented subs that explicitly adopt leftist positions, but you could point to plenty on the right as well.

I guess just how for certain conservatives in the US, anyone to the left of Reagan is probably the love child of Stalin and Satan himself, it seems like calling any place that doesn't actively purge and issue an apology repudiating any leftist view that slips through is liable to be declared a haven of leftists.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Not to mention, have LGBT people or racial minorities get just slightly too loud with complaining about their own oppression and Reddit's support drops very very quickly.