Temple Square

Wait until they see “Smoke Hub” in Bakersfield, CA.

It’s literally the porn hub logo.

Yep. Disney+ (for now).

Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.

What’s stupid of them is that if they’d stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.

I’d complain, except it hasn’t gone up in a decade.

Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.

The guy is straight up insane. He’s obsessed with the letter X.

But I don’t care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.

Former RiFfer here on Connect.

Gives me similar vibes.

It’s a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

RiF fanatic here. Neither mirrors directly. But Jerboa wasn’t bad. And I find I like Connect the best.

I mean, I went from Facebook to Reddit to Lemmy.

Seems like a good trajectory.

Next step is heading back to old “General Talk” sections of random message boards like it’s 2003. Is the Massassi Temple Forum (Jedi Knight game) still around?

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

But not for me. I’m forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.