What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

It's a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

At this point, it's just a temper tantrum.

Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the "annoying older brother" and anything they want is "stupid."

Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.

Yep. Disney+ (for now).

Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.

What's stupid of them is that if they'd stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.

just find another web site

Okay. Done and done.

Ignore their reasonable critiques of your recent royal decisions and instead insist that you aren't backing down, even if the pawns are setting the chess board on fire and leaving the game. Start praising other kings to make yourself look good b by association.

That was my reaction when Elon first bought twitter. It's like he's so stupid he thinks Twitter is the only possible platform that could ever be a twitter.

It turns out, we're all pretty clever at figuring out places to talk. The talking is going to happen. Where we do the talking keeps changing.

Your flaw is assuming that a couple only produces one child. Many humans can share the same ancestor.

Other way around:

Sites that COMPLY with laws and exit the state leave behind sites that do not comply.

The sites you CAN reach in Texas are more likely to have trafficking victims and underage participants -- because those sites clearly don't give a hoot about laws.

Texas drove away the wrong sites!

I feel like Aaron Swartz exiting and later dying played a role. There was no longer his voice to check bad business behavior.

The guy is straight up insane. He's obsessed with the letter X.

But I don't care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.

Doesn't it literally mean "whore-son" (huren-sohn)?

My German is poor.

But not for me. I'm forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There's a HUGE middle ground between "nothing changes" and "reddit goes out of business." As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It's not that Reddit dies abruptly. It's that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.

Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.

It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.

Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?

But the good news is, tech is a highly disruptable industry. Barrier to entry is accessible for regular people.

And that's why we're here.

Reddit doesn't die because we left. They die in a few years when the Fediverse just works better than Reddit. And we fund that.

Speaking of, how do I kick in a few bucks to help out various Lemmy servers? Anyone know?

No kidding.

I'm feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: "You're either with us, or we'll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism"

Don't forget the "Jesus fish" on their logo.

I'm from out west, so it was a very foreign concept for me when I visited my sister in Arkansas and saw a lot of "Christian Family Auto" type places with Jesus swag trying to win over business.

I know this is a piracy community, but honestly I don't mind paying for newspapers.com. I use it a lot just to read up on old articles and stuff and they seem to be doing a pretty good job adding new newspapers to the archive all the time.

For me piracy is great when the product is just outright overpriced because some corporate tools in New York or Los Gatos are trying to make their VC people happy.

"He tells it like it is"

Our lead-poisoned parents may have bought into that crap. But we know all that is is stubborn arrogance. And solving problems requires open-minded thinking and chasing the problem, not the messenger/customer/employee.

It's the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald's.

We don't need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.

GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.

RiF fanatic here. Neither mirrors directly. But Jerboa wasn't bad. And I find I like Connect the best.

Honestly if reddit had come, cap in hand, and says "Hey what can we do to be awesome so you'll buy premium"

And then listened to our advice? I'd have bought premium to help em out.

Instead, they are acting genuinely insane. Like back when my brother was on cocaine and Adderall and would try to hit me up for money.

Reddit can die.

Raised devout Mormon/LDS. 9/11 reaffirmed political conservativism. Church assigned me to be a missionary (age 19-21) in Portland, Oregon where I found liberals treated me with better respect than conservative christinans.

In 2006, my house rep said something royally stupid, so I voted for his Democratic rival. And like Pringles, once you pop you can't stop.

Today I'm a fiery but loyal moderate democrat.

Before the pandemic, the US wasn't too bad. Large cities got expensive, but most places a movie ticket ran around $10.

Now, to make up for lost money, some chains are trying to charge extra for getting "a good seat" or other perks that used to be just part of the price of the ticket.

I think they overestimate demand. I haven't been to a movie since 2019. I don't think I'm missing out. Home TVs are just so big now.

Same here.

There is a very good Ex-Mormon community on reddit that is so stuck in their own bubble of problems, I can't see themselves moving. And I enjoy checking in to see what shenanigans the LDS/Mormon church are up to.

But that's it.

I feel like the past 3 weeks I've moved to a new city. And I'm discovering new communities here.

I mean, I went from Facebook to Reddit to Lemmy.

Seems like a good trajectory.

Next step is heading back to old "General Talk" sections of random message boards like it's 2003. Is the Massassi Temple Forum (Jedi Knight game) still around?

Long loans made sense to solve affordability when interest was 0-3‰ prime.

It makes affordability WORSE at 7+ percent prime, because the longer term exaggerates the interest rate more. That's why legacy OEMs are offering 5% on 36 month loans.

When interest rates spike, the only solution is to offer a cheaper product (principle). Lengthening the term doesn't work.

The upside if we all use the term Google, is that over time Google will lose their ability to enforce their trademark.

Guess that's why I don't see any. Jerboa for the win!

Agreed. RiF was my world. I literally took the news re: API changes worse than when my girlfriend broke up with me (shortly before). My stages of grief have centered more around reddit than her, lol.

Now Reddit have shown they are toxic. And I no longer wish to add value to their platform.

I miss some subs, but honestly this place is FUN. It's so old school! And it's great to see the activity increase daily.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won't miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

I'd complain, except it hasn't gone up in a decade.

Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.

Yeah. It's like when people tell me I just gotta move on after my ex called out of the blue and said stuff so mean, I had to block her number.

I try not to obsess about it. But (in our analogy) it was only a week ago. I'm still going through the stages of grief.

Can't eliminate the "I'll just do without" competition.

Like, when I got rid of Netflix... I didn't sign up for an additional new service. I just watch YouTube.

When I stopped using Facebook so much, I didn't go to another service -- I just didn't use social media as much.

Former RiFfer here on Connect.

Gives me similar vibes.

It doesnt have to be centralized. Just allow power users a function in their Lemmy app of choice to "group" similar communities into one mega community per topic.

Like a frontpage, but just for ONE topic.

And then we could share lists with each other or something.

Wait until they see "Smoke Hub" in Bakersfield, CA.

It's literally the porn hub logo.

Road Guy Rob talks about how highway engineering works in a fun, highly animated way:

Here's one about a bike lane disaster -- where the city screwed up and undid it after a week:

https://youtu.be/zeynqnirofE

I've been on Lemmy since last Monday (like 10 days). It's meteoric!

Back then, simply posting ANYTHING automatically meant you made the front page.