This post is Meta.

On a serious note, can we appreciate Meta’s marketing team for the timing of this announcement. They waited for Twitter to bleed to kick it in the shins.

I feel your sentiment. But it’s more about our impression that everything on the internet should be free.

There are people that hate subscriptions, paywalls, adds or that their personal data being sold. And yet they want to use all the services such as Netflix, YouTube, Facebook, etc. People want to have their cake and eat it too.

I am not saying that the number of adds and prices are not getting out of control but it makes sense to me that if I am not paying directly for certain services, I am paying for them with my personal data or an advertiser is paying for me instead.

Technically you pay to use Youtube by watching adds. People sometimes forget that there are no free lunches.

That means we achieved the full reddification of Lemmy

Am I the only with the paywall for the article?

This comment seems unnecessarily toxic to women or is it just me?

This guy kinks

Why would he not want to say the reason though? If that was the case, the OP could just say he is a shy pooper. Instead we now suspect that this is some kind of orgy with a fetish.

Well, can you make sure he behaves then?

Guys we did it!

“This ^”

I would say that some bots were useful. Like the one that would convert the units from “freedom” oned to ones that actually make sense (or the other way around).

Also, I like the bot that summarized the article.

Listen here you little shit…

People see more drama than it actually is. We all still come from Reddit mindset but fragmentation is a feature not a hindrance.

I am not here to show Reddit my middle-finger. I am hear because I like what fediverse stands for and if the price is smaller communities, so be it.

Creating a “safe space”. Meaning that instead wanting for the community to self-regulate they want to have all the power of censorship.

Essentially, if you ever write anything they don’t like, they want to be able to never see you again.

They want to built an echo chamber where nothing even remotely upsetting can be mentioned or discussed.

All I needed to know form this is that I can block and unsubscribe from all beehaw communities and look for new ones hosted on other instances. If I ever want to see beehaw stuff I will create an account there. For now, I am happy I am part of lemmy.world as I am not a fan of heavy moderation. As long as there is a way of downvoting, I have absolut trust in the community to regulate itself.

In fact, this is a big problem for me in beehaw. They took away the power for the community to self-regulate by removing downvoting and instead want a centrally moderated and controlled “safe space”. Which is fine for some I guess but definitely not for me. If I see trolls, bigots, etc. I just downvote and move on. Some people get affected way more about it than others I guess.

Yeah, although they didn’t provide any data to back it up. I’ve been using lemmy.world for a few days and didn’t see any harassment whatsoever.