no, been a freebie user since Google Readers died and honestly, for the way I use it, to pop on and scroll through the feed then clicking on some articles? I’ve never felt limited or like I needed to pay to do anything.

RSS is great for following blogs and sites of specific interests, like local sites, or sites about specific subjects. You get ALL the updates. For example. I live in Baltimore and have a bunch of local sites in my RSS reader.

Reddit/Lemmy, on the other hand, is a more democratically human curated and upvoted aggregator so while it hits all the popular stuff beyond the topics you follow on RSS, it will miss a lot too.

So I use both.

Feedly for hundreds of sites of interest. And Reddit and now Lemmy for the rest.

Good stuff!

amazing place - feel so fortunate that I got to visit!

not remotely. Both, my mastodon & my IG feed were filled with that asshats mugshot. Like… LITERALLY filled. I ended up just logging off for the night last night.

Here I subscribe to a lot of non-political & non-meme communities, so it wasn’t nearly as aggressive.

You mean: The entire internet right now.

talk about your silver lining! Hey, we never really got to use 50 deg C in weather yet! Hype!

lol.

who needs units? call them percents. 0% hot 100% hot 110% HOT holy fuck! lolol

I enjoy rabble rousing C-freaks. I lived in a Celsius country for 3 years (Hong Kong), each degree is too much, decimals for weather is silly.

Farenheit is so simple, on a scale of 0-100, how fucking hold/cold is it?

the fact that 20-30 points goes from freezing cold to death and destruction and fire is everything that’s wrong with Celsius for weather.

F for weather C for chemistry K for astronomy

FCK one unit of measure.

Subscribe to better communities lol. I don’t see Reddit shit except posts like this.

I just feel bad for people who went in during Elon’s “good” years (heavy quotations). He’s nothing but a glorified car salesman and a verified idiot now, but for a while there, some people just wanted a more sustainable car.

While I think you car analogy is flawed, maybe a bus analogy would be better?

Anyway, I think the biggest complaint is really about what the site was, what it was for, and now what he’s done to the site to destroy all of that. It’s not the first time something with a lot of users, readers, fans, etc absolutely hated when a new direction or ownership of a company ruined everything they loved about the company.

People have spent YEARS of their lives on that site. It wasn’t my main jam, easy to delete for me, but it was a source of news and what’s happening right now. But for some people, especially those with a following, it was their main voice and this dumb billionaire manbaby is just destroying it.

Yeah. Morning math got me stupid. lol. Edited!

Derp! Thanks!!

It’s scale.

Scale is the enemy of social networks. All of them, including Lemmy.

Let’s say 0.1% of the population are just straight up assholes who ruin everything.

If you only got 100 people on a site, no one is an asshole.

1000 people? Well now you got that asshole Andy in the group. Fucking Andy. But we can deal with him.

But we scale up to 1,000,000? Well now you got 1000 fucking assholes to deal with!

lol, no, I’m saying pop culture hasn’t decided yet, silly.

I just find the weirdos who forget soft G’s exist ridiculous.

What general public? I’ve heard it pronounced both ways often by many people. There is no agreed way to pronounce it. Even the dictionary recognizes both ways. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GIF

love following you on mastodon and you’ve been a great part of discovery!

lol

shrug