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  • I have somehow avoided Amazon all these years. It’s easy for me, nothing I require is connected to Amazon.

    I’m sure there are aspects of the business that I can’t avoid that I don’t even know I’m being dragged into, but I don’t spend my money with them.

    Anytime I can’t find something somewhere else, I just move on and forget about it.

    The only times I’ve ever been bummed about it is when I’m working on some small project and the parts are half the price on Amazon. Most recently, it was parts for an arcade machine.

    If I’m being inconvenienced, I don’t even know it.

    I walked away originally when they acquired cdnow.com. I last visited the site when it began redirecting to Amazon.




  • I can’t imagine having something like this.

    You know what kind of couples I have known who use it?

    Yep. That kind. The constant accusation, constant fighting, constant chaos kind. The same kind who share a Facebook account and all that.

    I guess my bias there would be that those would also be the kind of people who advertise it.

    I was standing beside an old coworker one time when her husband called, “babe, don’t freak out when I start moving. The boss is sending me to harbor freight to pick up some things.”

    I got a call from her in the middle of the night one time, “I’m sitting by the lake and I’m about to drive my car in and kill myself.”

    She knew her husband didn’t like me so she thought I wouldn’t call him. Well, I called him. “That bitch is lying. Life 360 has her sitting at her mom’s house right now. She just fucking wants attention!”

    Still, I called a friend and asked them to drive by and see. Yep. She was at her mom’s house.





  • Yeah, and there are decent ways to do that, which many successful companies and individuals manage to pull off every day.

    I have no horse in this race because I don’t use any of this stuff, but I despise the direction everything is going.

    Human parasites are never happy with being well fed it seems. They aren’t happy unless they gorge until they get fat and explode, or they’re so greedy they end up killing their host.


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    6 months ago

    I can’t speak for other people, but if lemmy.world were to shut down today I’d just pick another server.

    I will admit, it was confusing and almost turned me off at first. I was very upset about the whole deal with third party apps on Reddit. My daughter gave me the whole email analogy and it cleared my hesitation to join Lemmy.

    I don’t know how it is today, but I had to apply to join world when I first got on. It would be awesome if an app would sign a person up for, say, three different servers and sync settings between them. Something goes down, wouldn’t even notice.

    Assholes ruin everything though and making it easier for bot accounts to exist would end badly.

    I don’t know.

    When I first got on here it was a mess. It didn’t work half the time and when it did no content was being generated. I stuck it out though and I’m glad I did.

    I’m definitely not the right person to come up with any solutions.


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    6 months ago

    Man. You just gave me an idea (which would matter if I wasn’t a complete idiot).

    Instead of servers that all attempt to be a sort of clone of Reddit, servers could focus on content similar to the way subreddits work.

    So you’d join any one of these servers and federate with other servers just like now, only content would be focused between servers.

    Example:

    This server is a games server. It has /c/games, /c/fallout, /c/vintagegaming, etc.

    This server will focus on news and politics. It has /c/worldnews, /c/marketnews, etc.

    Sure, it would still have the issue of being fractured, but it would narrow it down so much that it would be more appealing and easier to navigate.

    It’s probably too late for that.

    Ultimately, I’m happy with the fediverse. Algorithms aren’t dictating what I see. There’s no profit incentive that will lead to bad decisions, so when bad decisions are made, folks will talk about it and come to a solution.

    I miss old Reddit, but it’s gone.