AgentGoldfish

I think Netflix initially showed that piracy is a service problem, not a legal one. And I think Spotify still shows this with music.

The fact is, if there is a relatively convenient and inexpensive way to get content, most people would just pay. Most people subbed to this community probably wouldn't, but this community is not most people.

I don't think there will ever been a good way to prevent piracy on a technical level. I also don't think there's sufficient way to address it legally. Any attempt to stop digital piracy on those fronts is going to fail.

But make it cheap and easy? Most people won't bother to pirate content. All these companies trying to start their own streaming services is just going to result in more people pirating content.

They can’t get to see content that they used to, and despite not creating it themselves, or doing ANYTHING other than consuming it, they feel entitled to access it, as if it were “theirs”.

I completely agree with you.

I was a mod on an advice sub (that I recreated over here), and people would message modmail after posting and say "why is no one commenting on my post". Like, you aren't entitled to free advice, you're asking for it. But people would get legitimately angry whenever they wouldn't get any advice, or if the advice they got wasn't what they were looking for.

The thing that made me the most angry were the people who would delete their post after getting advice. Like people wrote comments for everyone to read, not just for you, and then you go and defacto make those comments private?

I fully believe that audience of people does not understand that they aren't the center of the universe and that there are actual people on the other end of comments...

It implies that government systems are only there to catch you if you fail.

No it doesn't. The term "social safety net" specifically refers to systems that are designed to catch you if you fail. You're right that public education/healthcare/transportation are government systems, and those systems are for everyone, but these are not part of the social safety net, and thus not relevant to what I was talking about.

And most countries have a social safety net, which is designed for people who fall on hard times. If you get addicted to heroin and lose everything, it should be incumbent on the government to help you get back to a decent standard of living, that's what the social safety net is for. It's literally a safety net for society.

You lumped in things that aren't part of the social safety net, and then got upset about the term because of things you lumped in. Instead, there are two concepts: government programs for everyone, and government programs for specific people.

but things should normalize after that.

There's a greater likelihood that the content creators are the ones moving. Most of the reddit power users likely used third party apps. Most of the reddit power users are also the ones who wrote most of the comments worth reading.

So if on june 1 most of the reddit power users flee, reddit's enshitification will have reached a terminal stage. Eventually, reddit will stop having things worth reading, and the lurkers will all move over.

I think we're in for a long decline of reddit a la facebook. However unlike facebook, there isn't a market of old people/foreign markets that can fill their user numbers.

In some areas of some cities, yes. But that's not entirely what's at issue here (though this is what many companies will claim).

Some US cities are dealing with opiod and homelessness crises which are on a scale that most cities have never faced. The complete lack of a social safety net is creating areas that are, for lack of a better word, overrun. Those areas are functionally devoid of commerical activity.

I want to be clear that the fault of those who are homeless and those who are suffering from addiction lies predominately with the government and shitty policies enacted over the last 50 years. With that said, it is understandable that people are only going to be in spaces with a lot of homeless if they are 1) homeless themselves, 2) helping the homeless in a humanitarian capacity or 3) harassing the homeless (talking about cops here).

Combine all of that, and you have areas of cities where customers aren't going to go (because they don't feel safe) and that have a higher proportion of crime (due to the lack of priority of law enforcement).

I've left the US, by my home town (city) has areas that are just no-go zones. Like, you only go there if you're desperate. And the McDonald's in that areas has long shuttered because they weren't making any money and they were dealing with a bunch of issues caused by vandalism and attacks on their employees.

The US is showing what happens if you have no social safety net.

That's not how any of this works...

Communities (as you put, sublemmy) can't be individually federated, only instances can be. And needing another account is a sign that you are looking at a post on the wrong instance, not a sign that an instance is not federated. In fact, finding out an instance is not federated can be pretty difficult unless you check the list of instances that are defederated on another instance.

That's not a universal link, so you ended up on a different instance. A much simpler and easy explanation than what you came up with.

My NFL team last year gave up its franchise quarterback, and the subreddit basically only talked about the former QB for the entire preseason, and then still talked about it for half the season. Then it died down. And before the protest, he wasn't really talked about all that much.

Reddit is still fresh in people's minds. It will go away. In the early days of reddit a LOT of people talked about digg, but within a few months it just wasn't mentioned much anymore.

A lot of people here spent years on our ex-platform. It's going to take some time to get that out of our system. In the meantime, enjoy the shadenfreude!

I was a mod on an advice sub on reddit, this is a terrible idea.

It was enough work as a mod to sift through things that actually needed to be reported. For advice, downvotes are needed to express when something is genuinely bad advice. It can't be up to mods to sift through every single comment, that'd be impossible.

Just fyi, when posting links to communities, you should just use the "/c/" without the link to the instance. Like this: /c/[email protected]

This is similar to how those links were done on reddit (/r/). The problem with your link is that it is instance specific, which is really helpful for anyone in your instance, but anyone in a different instance will be thrown out of their instance if they click it (they'll be unable to subscribe).

I explained this in my post: https://lemmy.world/post/149743

Those communities still exist on this instance, they just aren't synced. You can see new posts from only lemmy.world users. Any posts/comments you make are not shared within the wider lemmyverse.

Effectively that community is a zombie community on this instance. Just unsub from that community, it's useless to you unless behave decides to refederate.

Yes.

Just explaining how this affects the users here, that's it. I just said why I personally think this is a mistake.