Everyone is saying Piracy but I say Public LIbraries, which often have CDs/DVDs/BDs/games now (depending on your locale). They're taxpayer funded, so you might as well get your money's worth, and they keep track of how often stuff gets borrowed which determines future financial support.
(And if you are tech-savvy enough to be on Lemmy, you probably know how to make a ... permanent copy ... for yourself to keep)
The funniest, most delusional thing in all of this: Does she actually think there's a whole "MAGA Inc." organization that's masterminding whatever the hell Trump is up to?
(No you silly, it's a decentralized federation of MAGA instances)
I just checked in on how NBA Topshot (basically sports highlight NFTs) are doing and apparently they are still finding greater fools.
Well, clearly Jesus is the actual false prophet, because a long-haired dark-skinned Middle Eastern socialist who got executed as a criminal sounds like a LOSER.
The people who are still pissy over at reddit don’t actually want to leave unless they’re presented with a reddit clone that has both a fully developed app and a huge userbase.
"Now introducing ... Zuccit, brought to you by Meta"
Invisible Hand is working as intended. Praise Adam Smith!
I lurk the frontpage occasionally and I've already noticed the Reddit atmosphere has gotten ... weird.
Little-known, content-churning subreddits are bubbling to the top because of all the other blackouts and desertions. Fringe viewpoints and wacko opinions that would normally get downvoted to the bottom of a thread are now out in the open because there's no voice of reason to hold them back.
And the kind of people that are still on there, acting as if everything is fine (or, God forbid, better(???) than it was before the revolts) ... it's a very strange place now.
Just be glad we're actually taking showers.
LOL, the OOP's username in that linked thread is certainly a username.
Really appreciate all the human eyes keeping a lookout for this nonsense instead of letting the ragebait spiral in on itself with the algorithms.
LMAO, felt this.
The last time I had to write a Statement of Intent was to get into grad school and I sure as shit ain't doing homework for a free online community.
Hello world.
As an Internet Old Head I'm just happy to be talking to real people again, and not bots or bad-faith trolls or (worse yet) shouting into the wind and having the algorithm bat you down.
to quote Oprah's first tweet, "FEELING REALLY 21ST CENTURY"
Abolish currency, revert to trading sheep and goats.