Schaedelbach @ Schaedelbach @feddit.de

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You wouldn't have paid

Eh, I don't pay for Tv or have a lot of subscriptions but I actually pay for YouTube premium because there are channels I follow for more than ten years at this point. And because I know that some of this money goes to the creators (not all, I know) I feel like it's money well spent for content I actually enjoy. So, with all that said: if Reddit would have given me an option to pay a reasonable amount to browse it on an app of my choice I am pretty sure I would have done that, because some of content and communities were also a part of my life for way longer than ten years.

I can kinda see where you are coming from, though. Not enough people would have paid the way I would have done. People like free stuff. I do too.

Yeah, but only because Reddit wants to become more than they are! All the coins, nfts (yes, they already sell them), useless functions and redesigns they implemented over the years, while simultaneously giving a shit about what made Reddit useful and interesting. They had a chance to be better than the rest and give us (and by that I mean user who used Reddit often) a way to pay for what we liked but more and more they pushed people like me away with all the convoluted and microtransactiony way to spend money.

Eh, whatever. I like it here better now!

Any tips how you pull stuff to read out of Reddit? RSS or something else?

Mh, I'm fairly certain I had something like that pop up a couple of years ago. A card or some notification or something telling me the air quality. Don't think I have seen it since. I don't use discovery on my phone (Pixels since 2018) at all. I only see it when I open Chrome empty.

I was actually interested and ready to spend more than I'd like to admit because I never played the first RDR. But 50 Dollar which would probably translate to 60. Euro in my region is just to much! Espacialy considering there are so so many great older games (I got Dragons Dogma for 12 € at a sale for example) for reasonable prices available everywhere.

So, I probably won't be playing this port in the foreseeable time.

Uhm, even on Playstation?!

Never played this one, only the second. I especially liked the slow and deliberate style and pacing of RDR 2, something a lot of people found off putting. Is this game similar? I guess my question is: If I liked the gameplay of the second game will I enjoy the first?

Yeah, it works now for me. Thanks for the heads up!

Totally agree with your sentiment generally but Facebook made boatloads upon boatloads of money.

Doesn't sound that different from Twitter, tbh.

It's there but doesn't work, yet.

Yeah, I know! It's just that the list view in Sync is even more smaller. Not by a lot but noticeable to me.

Same here! Two things I like more on Sync as of now: So many useful options how things look and behave (seriously, the amount of options is insane!) and the list view (I hate the card view, always have, alway will!) is smaller and uses the available space slightly better imo. But I have a good feeling Voyager will improve immensely considering how good it got in the past months.

Uhm, dude has his account for two months, so I think it's save to assume he also is a Reddit refuge. Oh, you know what, it actually says so in his profile.

I try Sync since it got released, so for the past 48 h, on and off without paying any money. I haven't had a single ad since then. I don't use any VPN or ad blocker on my phone. Don't know why that's the case. Maybe because I have the appearance set to list?

Anyway, I really like the app! It really feels the most polished app by a mile to me. Yet, Voyager (as of now "only" a web app) feels also pretty polished, it just has a lot less things in the settings I can tweak.

As a former RIF user (and I really never used anything else on my phone for Reddit) it still feels a bit weird to hop apps but at the end of the day that's the beauty of the Fediverse: there is just so much choice and if you like Sync enough you have plenty of ways to give money to the dev, just as there are ways to donate to devs of the other apps you like!

Sorry for the tangent!

No one bothered to answer you, so I will try: Since the takeover by Musk, the group who felt the most emboldened where people on the right spectrum, because of what Musk is putting out on his feed. It's mostly stale memes, retweets of stuff his other companies do and tons of right wing stuff: Tucker Carlson is just the most famous but his liked feed is filled to the brim with obscure assholes! It's insane! If you don't believe me, there are videos on YouTube where people sift through his feed and it's just maddening, how such an idiot could become one of the richest people in the world!

Anyway, to answer your question: alt righters usually cheer on most of the stuff Musk is implementing, with the blue checkmark definitely being one of the main "signs" they wore with a certain pride and as a sign of support of Musk. I guess now Twitter (I refuse to call it anything different!) has become so uncool even in the cringiest corner of the right wing that they have to give them the option to turn it off otherwise they will cancel the subscription.

I am in the same boat. Bought RIF years ago and there are a couple of other apps I got as a one time purchase but subscriptions mostly make me delete an app immediately. Stuff like Spotify or Netflix are exceptions of course but those apps are just the gateway to a paid service. Sync doesn't have to pay money on an ongoing basis to Lemmy. It's straight up a purchase to the developer for an app.

Not too concerned though, I use Voyager at the moment and it's just such a great way to browse Lemmy, I have no problem sticking with it!

I play Dragons Dogma DA for weeks now and I still love how fresh the combat feels everytime you change vocation. Right now I am a magic archer and I pretty much spend all the weight I can carry on blast arrows. This plus the skill where I can double zoom in on enemies from far away and do A TON of damage makes me the biggest danger in all of gransys at the moment. I can't stress this enough: the combat in this game is just so good and varied it's absolutely insane!

But!

I just can't stop thinking about how great it would be if Dragon's Dogma had lore and quests like the third Witcher! I feel like Capcom tried with a handful of quests like the one with the dude from the village who constantly gets lost and you have to rescue him. Or some main storyline quests also can be exciting. And yet, most quests are kill quests with just a little textbox explaining who wants what killed.

Dragons Dogma made me realize how much of Witcher 3 is actually carried by the writing, the lore, the world and the interesting characters interacting in it and how bland, almost bad the combat is.

So now I wish CD Red would hire the people responsible for the combat in Dragons Dogma for the next Witcher! Sounds like a perfect game in my book!

I don't know... Looks more like a metrodvania style jump n run with up to four player. Cuphead is a gun and run shooter with an emphasis on boss rush elements but little to no exploration.

Eh, I think this can work like sponsored messages on YouTube videos: probably not immediately a lot of clicks on the product but over time more and more people recognize it and know what it is. And I like to think that over time Spez will be recognized as the soulless fucker who is hated by the very community he is trying to sell. Reddit lost a lot of charm in the last couple of months, even more than was already lost before and his name is tied to the whole thing. I hope!