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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Interesting how all these tech companies are actively making themselves shittier at the same time. Reddit, Google, Twitter, Netflix. It’s like they forgot what made the industry leaders. Why everyone flocked to them over other options.

    My gut says that high interest rates have a lot to do with the timing. The era of free money is over and so all these companies are trying to squeeze every dime out of their customers they can. The problem is, this is the internet and their services don’t have to be unique, any one can duplicate what they used to offer. The only reason they are dominant now is because they have gotten so big and did not actively try to tank their service.

    Now that they’re actively making things shittier, people will just find an alternative. Speaking of which, is there a federated alternative to youtube? Probably harder to implement do the video file sizes.


  • Considering I had very low expectations, that looks surprisingly good. The jokes feel in line with the classic series. Some of the story lines (covid/crypto) seem a little on the nose, but I’ll withhold judgement as some of the best episodes of the first revival were pretty 1 for 1 digs at current topics (i.e. eyePhones).

    Overall looks better than the lows to which the Simpsons has fallen and it still loks worlds better than Disenchanted. I’ll give it a look when it comes out…just wish it wasn’t on Hulu, I may have ro wait a bit as I don’t currently subscribe.




  • There’s nothing. It’s been slowly getting more and more shitty for years. It’s just been happening so slowly that there wasn’t a breaking point where most of us left until now.

    I’ve been casually looking for an alternative for years, because the content has gotten so low effort. There just hasn’t been any good alternatives. I tried Voat, but that got over run with racists and Trumpers almost from the jump.

    Lemmy is the first thing I’ve found that seems half decent and it needs to triple ot quadruple it’s engaged user base to really have a shot. Too many posts with no comments or very few. What made reddit special was the comments and interactions. I have hope lemmy can get there, it just needs way more users to do so.


  • Not just mortgage rates, but just overall housing cost in general. Rental costs. The cost to buy a house. I have friends who purchased in 2010, at the bottom of the 2008 housing crash. There homes are now worth double or even triple what they bought them for. If we could have another event like that, I’d take it!