Sure, then in 2 years I get an easy-to-miss email that says they’re changing the terms and the past 5 years of data will be opened for corporate access and use at its discretion without the requirement to inform you.

I’ve seen this episode before. Much like Hollywood, it’s the same story over and over and the public is getting tired of it.

“please insert a corporate middleman with no oversight into your somewhat private conversation”

I don’t have a lot of sympathy for any of the idiots that buy these idiotic things.

They totally feel it to be true, and they’ve been told their feelings are more valuable and true than actual facts.

Keep in mind that their America IS being destroyed. They’re happy in an American where they are free to judge and hate people. The rest of us aren’t, it’s being taken back, and they’re putting up a fight for it.

They don’t get that they’ll be just fine when they realize they can stop hating people who have nothing to do with their lives.

Happened yesterday, indoctrined right wing self proclaimed conspiracy theorist son killed his “traitor” father and showed the severed head on YouTube for a few hours.

It might be more accurate to show the Israeli PM giving bags of money for decades to Hamas, and ignoring the evidence of their plans to rape and dismember a few hostages, before raping and dismembering a few hostages before Israel enters the picture, but otherwise, yeah.

Yo ho ho, shiver me timbers, what a crew the Jolly Roger is getting

A competing service in the non-Livenation venues would be enough to take a chunk of a Ticketmaster’s bottom line and force them to compete again, something they haven’t had to do in a while.

If Mark Cuban has the resources to take on the drug industry by creating a service to get reasonably priced medicine, can we ask him to make a new TicketMaster that doesn’t rip everyone off?

FOSS is great at back end, and is tremendously closer to the front end ease of private, polished software than it ever has been.

Some more push for front-end ease with reasonable support communities will push it more into the mainstream. It needs to be as easy as pressing “install” and then using it. For mass adoption, the majority of people don’t care to become technical experts.

I find it more comfortable to contribute to Lemmy than to other sites. There seems to be actual discussion and opportunities to learn, which can be much harder to come across on the other platforms.

I considered one briefly but don’t want the chance that Winnie The Pooh gets all my keystrokes.

I’ve had Chinese coworkers with them, but haven’t seen one otherwise. That being said, I don’t around discussing phone choices with people as a regular thing.

Elect a clown, get a circus

It only looks like insider trading if you forget the definition of insider trading and only read a headline curated to ignore the important details that show small, consistent sales across time regardless of company activities.

Bad actors will try to nuke the entire platform to maintain a monopoly on this format of communication and community.

I had to bump start my first car for a period of time. It was a challenge to always find a hill to park on. Another cool trick was shifting gears without using the clutch by rev matching.

The point wasn’t to take a successful brand over to make money, it was to have direct control over the narrative being pushed across social media.

“Do this task for compensation”

“That’s soo much, no”

Wtf are you doing there?