I would like to shit on your floor and it's your duty as host to allow me that honor.
What the fuck does illustrative purposes mean here?
It's those damn chemicals in the water
Anyone who tries to tell me it's financially easy to get an education coming from a poor family can honestly get boned
"Running the country in a way that causes sanctions from the rest of the world" lmao
"I give such a little shit about an ongoing genocide that I literally cannot fathom another person genuinely caring if it doesn't immediately affect them."
So what happens when competition happens and the omnipotent and holy god, the invisible hand of the free market, starts removing the less competitive firms and leaves a small oligopoly or monopoly? Kinda breaks down at even the slightest tug lol
Ah yes, because it's impossible for someone to care about genocide without it being about the ulterior motive of their self image. Famously, anti genocide is just a cutsie little insignificant cause.
I'm genuinely so confused
My freaking God. I volunteered at a local charity org a bit this summer and one of the first things they told us in orientation was that "most people think that poverty is about what people lack. But it's actually a mindset." That pissed me the heck off not gonna lie.
So I'm not an app developer, so I might be completely off base, but I don't really understand a lot of the arguments against this.
Firstly, there's an ad free one time cost that in my opinion seems very fair. Secondly, as I'm looking through the feature for Ultra, most of the features seem to be things that require an external server. I'm not sure how push notifications work so I can't comment on it, but syncing settings across devices for example doesn't happen at the instance level. That kind of thing could only be done through a server owned by the dev. However, it is very likely that the dev doesn't own a server, and is instead renting on a VPS, which is a subscription for them. So in order to provide these particular services, the dev has to pay a subscription. So would it not make sense that those that enjoy the benefits of this subscription the dev pays, also have to pay a subscription? In my mind that simply seems fair, in order to support a dev that has clearly put a lot of time and effort into making a great app.
The user base for Lemmy is significantly smaller than Reddit. The dev needs a smaller number of people to be able to support the operating costs of the app (as well as the wellbeing of the dev) which means that necessarily a different (and steeper) pricing model would be necessary.
I do not think it's fair to claim that Lemmy API access is free and therefore there are no operating costs, because there's more to the app than API calls. It is indeed correct that API access is free, which seems to me to be the precise reason why there exists a free version of the app that you don't have to pay for in the first place. All API calls within the app are free. There are no paywalled Lemmy API calls, at least from what I can tell. But again if I'm wrong I'll admit it if someone can inform me.
Honestly this hit me like a ton of bricks. Just last night I laid in bed going "he him she her he him she her" trying to figure out what I vibed with and felt like I was getting nowhere. But reading this and realizing that I can ask other people to refer to me with she/her had my hear beating fast and tears welling up and I felt super giddy.
I think you're right. I think I might not have negative male thoughts, but positive female thoughts.
I have a safe and anonymous discord server I'm in and yeah I think I'm going to try experimenting. Wish me luck