blackstampede
I should probably thank Netflix for helping me save money. Their shenanigans pissed me off enough that I’ve entirely withdrawn from all paid streaming - I have a media server and a VPN now. Total media cost, $70 /year or ~$5.83 /month. For that, I have:
- Access to any movie or t.v. show any streaming service has ever provided
- No ads
- Shows/films don’t get removed from from the platform without warning.
My god. Find something important to be angry about.
No. I have about a thousand things I’d rather do than work.
I’ve been a lurker on reddit for the most part and it seems easier to talk on Lemmy. I guess because it’s a smaller community, or because your instance feels a little more private.
I imagine if Lemmy/the fediverse get big enough, corps will make accounts. It’s a small step from there to making their own instances, then modifying those instances so that they can see out, but you have to be registered locally to see in. I’m not sure how difficult that would be to implement.
My girlfriend and I are watching From, and enjoying it. We were/are worried that there’s a lack of direction and they’re just generating mysteries without any intention of solving them. The last few episodes revealed a few things, though, and I’m slightly more confident that they do have some sort of endgame.
Yeah, fuck this. I want full access to all the capabilities of my vehicle. I’ll keep maintaining my 2006 truck, thanks.
Might seem naive, but I actually have a hard time imagining this. There’s just not a lot to make one instance more desirable than another, which seems like a bad thing, but I don’t think it is. I decided against signing up on lemmy.ml because it was laggy, so I went with a smaller instance- all the same content, but without the lag. If a lot of content gets created on one instance, there’s no pressure to pile in, because you can view, comment and interact from a different, smaller instance.