Someone's face is about to match their jumpsuit.
RagingNerdoholic
joined 1 year ago
Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it's going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.
Anything that doesn't incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a "subscription."
thoughts?
Looking forward to the trainwreck as spez is verbally eviscerated. Like, how exactly do they imagine it's gonna play out?
I've been a loyal RiF user for years. RiF is reddit to me. This really sucks. So long, reddit.
Oh damn, just made me think, does /c/HydroHomies exist anywhere?
Except when they clog up hospitals with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD en masse. Now it's everyone's problem.
Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour and they should stay home and suffocate like a real man. Then we're golden. Hey, Fox News, I have an idea for you...
Lemonade being fucking delicious isn't reason enough?
I said this years ago on reddit: long COVID will the next major health crisis after the initial phase of the pandemic is addressed with vaccines. And here we are.
Very open to learning that this isn’t true, if it isn’t.
That's not how this works. If you're going to make serous accusations like that, the onus is on you to provide evidence to support them.
FWIW, I have no particular loyalty to lemmy.ml, I just joined the first instance I saw.
I still see benefits to strong instance identity, it can lead to some interesting dynamics down the line.
Such as?
But it needs to come with a smooth onboarding process, paired with the ability to easily migrate your account to a new instance with no loss of account history.
Totally agree. Like I said, I think the instance should be selected automatically (or at least promoted) by available capacity. It could just sort the list by user count to start and maybe start collecting some performance telemetry on instances to fine tune it later.
The account history is a big one, too. It could even be as simple as having the ability to download/upload your account history in a zip file, then it also serves as a backup. You could even schedule it regularly with the right bot or browser extension.
Another thing I just thought of while I was replying to this is that would be really nice to have is cross-instance authentication. It's kind of annoying when I go to a message context, but then I have to go back and find the message in my inbox to reply.
You can sub and comment on other instances without registering on each one. However, there is a bit of a fragmented experience when viewing context from your inbox.