Microblog Memes

Great summary and the guideline of my online life...

Wish I could get my dad to get this. I tell him I use an adblocker, he says why? He's never been bothered by it. His generation grew up in a technologically inconvenient time that he now glorifies today's streaming services, not seeing how they are enshittified. It's sad and I wish I could get him to understand.

I say this as a creator; it is not stealing to take something that can be replicated infinitely without cost.

THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.

• the best advice an AI ever gave (too bad it was a fictional AI)

"If you can't pirate it."

That's a skill issue.

For every person with the discipline to ignore subscription based services there are hundreds who go "but I don't get ads if I do"

I recently setup magnetico and tuned its crawling to not be super disruptive to my network (ISP's shitty router doesn't have enough RAM to maintain a stateful firewall for NAT for all the sockets magnetico likes to open).

And slowly, I've been accumulating torrent hashes. In a couple of months, I'm up to 118k+. I've considered trying to merge in other people's magnetico databases. The point is to maintain my own search for torrents to avoid the the whack-a-mole that stupid governments play with torrent search sites.

A buddy of mine swears by usenet and uses a pretty cheap option for access.

All of that said about piracy: Support creators in your life. Cut off parasites.

Also work on not being such a dopamine hound. I don't need to see new-show this year. Or this decade. I'll see it eventually. Or never. Who cares.

Know what's as good as music? The wind in the trees.

Not saying I'm some ascetic who doesn't enjoy media, but when I hit a paywall or an adwall I just try to say "ok, see ya later" and move on letting that content desire slip from my mind.

Tiktok being able to display videos on desktop but not images is simultaneously hilarious and sad. It's baffling. Like why? How?

Fuckin’ A on this one. Think about how much companies make with entirely artificial scarcity. You can only add 1 license to this, you can only watch on one TV unless you pay us $15 a month. It costs $200 to change where you are in the database table for this flight. Complete bullshit and we need to see it for what it is and stop it. I love how she says all that will be left in their wake is dull capitalists. Exactly. Stop playing their games. Play your game.

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

Self host on your desktop or laptop. Freedom is yours in FOSS.

Also: https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/

We need more texts like these. Different people respond to different kinds of content/appeals. I personally very much agree with this but I think some people would reject the entire idea because they might draw their line at piracy; which can be shifted, and I think that's why we need way more of these messages

If you can't pirate it, it's not worth the money to rent it

I only disagree when it comes to paying creators for their content. I pay for a single streaming service, and that's just because it directly supports the people running the service and making the content.

I'm more than happy to pay creators more or less directly for content, but I'm definitely not supporting shit services like Hulu and Netflix.

Not being able to use every server emoji on Discord is actually a good safeguard for NSFW spamming, because when trolls have to pay to be obnoxious, they usually stop doing it.

I agree on the premise as a whole, though. Our entire lives are getting enshittified with subscription models, designed to prey on those who forget to cancel or otherwise don't have the means or knowledge to get rid of it

lesbian-moon-gf is a goddess of curmudgeonry and I am now her high priestess

NewPipe is great on my phone, SmartTube for my TV. I tried showing others but it's like they don't think that there is a problem. I use Arch btw.