I don't think this is a case of trying to make more money.
Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.
boatswain
joined 2 years ago
What we're seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don't think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
My guess is that's the point. D&D Beyond, for example, seems to make it purposely confusing. My guess is that this is an attempt to make playing with the 2014 rules that much harder, so that people spend more money.
Refreshingly, that includes multinational firms: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
With the U.S. government now in total control of a political party ....
The quoted text means that the government controls the party. I believe what you mean to say is "With the US government now totally controlled by a political party ...."
Why would anything socially progressive organize on Facebook? Most normal people I know have abandoned that platform, let alone anyone privacy-minded or anti-oligarch.
That you'd be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.
Me too; that's why I use a password manager: I can be super lazy.
Interesting; I'm running Ublock and it didn't hide it for me. Maybe mobile vs desktop? Thanks for the archive link!
Edit: super weird, the subscription pop-up still shows up on the archive site.
Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term "metaverae". It's a fun read.
https://www.lemmyapps.com/ is a neat comparison site, but I'm not seeing any criteria around use of tracking data; is that just implied with the free vs paid column?