Although I like big public transportation options, cars are also awesome and won’t be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. I’d rather have electric cars than gas cars as we can generate renewable electricity but not renewable gas.
I’ve seen your argument a few times now. In San Francisco, some folk are protesting self driving cars with cones because they want more public transportation infrastructure. Again, I’m sympathetic—I love public infrastructure. But improving public transportation doesn’t have to be antithetical to EVs.
I’m not sure why so many Apple folk use Spotify. I prefer Apple Music. Also, the new included Apple Classical App is fantastic. Spotify offers a shit experience for classical music lovers.
Interesting article. It’s hard to avoid Amazon as they have made things so convenient. I can’t stand going to big box stores when I can just order something online. And Amazon has made that process super simple. I guess I should just make a better effort to purchase elsewhere and not solely Amazon.
Oh interesting. What’s Discord’s gameplan? Same as the rest? Capture a bunch of users then go full corporate fuck the users strategy? The ol “try this amazing free thing! Contribute content with your friends!……” “thx now pay us to access all the content you freely contributed. Kthx bye. Also we are selling all your data. Kthx.”
I get this perspective, but the reality is that Reddit has a lot of users that don’t care. Similarly, millions of people signed up for Meta’s Threads forking over a shitload of privacy. The majority of people aren’t educated enough to know or care about the issues at hand. So rather than us trying to fight a behemoth, we have to work alongside it to siphon off its community one member at a time.
Why didn’t these mods suggest Lemmy/Kbin instead of Discord? I don’t get the appeal of Discord. Why would you want to be in a massive chat room with a bunch of strangers?
I remember taking part in /place before Reddit sold out. It was an amazingly fun time. But now the veneer has peeled off. I no longer see Reddit as a benevolent community focused and motivated platform. Rather, it is another Meta. Another shitty company that turned on its community and the people who make the place so interesting. It’s a pretty fucked up tactic in my book.
Reddit won’t be dying anytime soon, so I agree with the OPs approach. And yes, most of us found Lemmy/Kbin because we thought it was fucked up what Reddit did, but I’m guessing most of us are a little more on the tech side of things and willing to branch out beyond Meta and now Reddit.
Also, Place returning right now is too soon. It feels forced. It’s clearly motivated by the IPO and that bothers me. It’s not organic. It’s carefully calculated by a bunch of greedy assholes.
Although I like big public transportation options, cars are also awesome and won’t be going anywhere for the foreseeable future. I’d rather have electric cars than gas cars as we can generate renewable electricity but not renewable gas.
I’ve seen your argument a few times now. In San Francisco, some folk are protesting self driving cars with cones because they want more public transportation infrastructure. Again, I’m sympathetic—I love public infrastructure. But improving public transportation doesn’t have to be antithetical to EVs.