Services like Reddit, Twitter and Youtube needs to make money somehow. They provide a service that the users enjoy, and it is fair that they want componsation for those services. Aslong as they are upfront with how and what you are paying with I think it is fine, and the user can themself choose not to use the service if they feel like the payment is too high.
It seems like we are whining about not being able to watch quality content for free. Even Lemmy needs donations or kind souls to keep running.
The DRM and Chrome changes might be worse… But in the end it is the same base argument, we need more competition to reduce the price or stop using services we don’t like / want to pay for.
I wouldn’t say its unpopular, but I do agree its a bit ignorant but not in the probably negative way you mean.
I think its your acceptance that its fundamental that “Business MUST profit and we MUST suffer to allow them to profit”
You’re making a huge leap that we need to suffer through all of the internet getting worse just because a corporation wants to profit. Fuck Google, Fuck Reddit, fuck all businesses that fail. Who cares? We owe them nothing.
The rulers figured out the internet is too dangerous to their power. They thought they could control it and us, and they did for a long time, but it’s not working anymore. Now they are cracking down on our ability to communicate, to prevent ideas from spreading and taking hold that they cannot tolerate.
? They’re just following the end game of capitalism, they’re trying to squeeze every last bit of profit out of the internet that they can, it has nothing to do with the internet “threatening” power, they already took care of that with all of the spying laws they passed when the internet started getting popular
Normally the meme is four panels. The first panel is him saying “I feel like I’ve forgotten something important.” The second panel, the other guy replies “If you forgot it, how important could it be?”
If you want NSFW on /c/all it shouldn’t take too long to block each community instead - I’ve done that to most of lemmynsfw and haven’t seen anything in a while. Scrolling /c/all in peace is really only an option because Lemmy is so new - if you browse /c/all in a year from now you’re gonna get a lot of stuff you don’t want.
The flavor of coleslaw varies as much as any other dish.
Fresh veggies and a tasty dressing? Awesome.
Shelf stable, premixed, and squeezed out of a bag at a fast food chain? Complete garbage.
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