But comments and posts would still be ranked by upvotes and downvotes wouldn't they? Or does this instance only rank by upvote? After all that is really the only purpose of them. Better more constructive comments rise to the top and worse more pointless fall to the bottom.
I know people try to downvote things because they want to express that they don't like the thing, but that doesn't mean downvotes don't have practical value.
A ridiculous opinion to have is that ads are bad, except for this one particular situation. If you want to convince me that this is ok then you need to at least hold the opinion that ads aren't bad and then go from there.
Obviously less options isn't better in all circumstances. When of the options happens to be predatory then yes obviously it is better to not allow such a thing.
Imagine you have two options. You can either pay a one time fee of $50 or you can borrow the $50 and pay back $2 a month with 75% interest. Is allowing people the option to accidentally pay 5 times the amount something is valued better? Not that this situation is completely analogous to what is going on with Sync, but the point is to demonstrate that there exists a circumstance that less options is better for the consumer. Or at least a circumstance where having the only option has more integrity.
The best option I see for Sync that doesn't implement ads at all and thus being bad is to have a less featured version for free and then sell premium features. Or of course just sell the whole thing with no free version. There is also a the concept of a limited demo so you can try before you make your decision to purchase. There are so many things you can do that don't involve ads.
It still has ads. It can't take the moral high ground of selling software if it also has a free with ads version to try and convince people to subscribe. Get rid of the ad version and only sell the software and then it will actually have some integrity.
It would take some adjustment, but ads and data harvesting are the core problem to the enshiftification of the entire internet. You can't have it both ways. We have this endless game of cat and mouse where we keep moving to the next platform after the last one becomes unusable due to ads and data harvesting.
You have to draw the line somewhere to end this pointless cycle and it is either pay for software and services or have people do only what they want to when they want to (FOSS). It really doesn't cost that much if it isn't attempting to compete with other software that grew with ad and data harvesting money.
I disagree. Paying to remove ads is one of the core problems with ads. If the only way to develop your software is either to frustrate them enough to pay to remove ads or have ads then your software shouldn't exist. You don't get to do something bad just because there is an option to pay them to stop doing that bad thing. That doesn't make it right. The whole concept is basically like a really mild protection racket.
I completely agree. I like the concept of Mastodon and like that it exists, but I just can't get into the idea of following individual or organizations rather than topics. Thankfully Lemmy is a thing.
Put it simply I just hate ads. Anything that puts in ads is terrible. Including Sync for Lemmy who seems to have completely missed the point of getting the hell away from Reddit.
The next terrible thing is automatically generated content and bots, but I guess those are also really just ads.
I agree it is the perfect length and doesn't needlessly drag on. I don't think it could ever continue at this point and I'm not sure it even needs to. I wouldn't mind seeing something entirely new either in the same universe or with the same vibes.
It absolutely counts. Some of my favorite science fiction shows are anime. I'm not sure why it doesn't come up more often in this community. I tried bringing it up a few times early on. Also our communities icon is from Cowboy Bebop.
No, if you are referring to the image on the post this is curated from some of the most upvoted comments of last months post. It doesn't imply much beyond these are some shows people have been watching. Many of which may be very old or very new. There seems to always be a good mix.
The translator of Three Body Problem Ken Liu is a native Chinese speaker with exceptional English language skills. I don't believe there are any issues with the translation work itself, but there are some oddities of intentionally reworked plots in the English release due to the book "Ball Lightning" not having been released for the English market yet so the references would not have made sense. I find this to be a poor decision, but you can always read Ball Lightning and about what that subplot was intended to be afterward. The Spanish version would likely have the same issue.
Aside from Project Hail Mary I am reading a couple other things. One of them for another book club I am in. I am listening to The Employees by Olga Ravn which I swear feels like being subjected to 2 hours of Rorschach tests asking you how some sequence of words makes you feel. I don't think I enjoy it very much as there is no fictional science or details about anything going on. The other is Diaspora by Greg Egan which I am enjoying greatly as it is nothing but technical details. Hopefully I don't end up being in the middle of too many books to actually finish any of them in a timely manner.
But comments and posts would still be ranked by upvotes and downvotes wouldn't they? Or does this instance only rank by upvote? After all that is really the only purpose of them. Better more constructive comments rise to the top and worse more pointless fall to the bottom.
I know people try to downvote things because they want to express that they don't like the thing, but that doesn't mean downvotes don't have practical value.