Lanfordr

joined 1 year ago
[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I probably would be one of them, but I paid for a year subscription last November. Once that's up, I'm probably dumping it for some other service, at least until House of Dragon and The Last of Us come back.

HBO MAX was my favorite service when it launched. It's slowly lost good content and added shitty low quality reality shows in their place. It still boggles my mind that a company like Discovery could purchase Warner Brothers.

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Since he is an ex-president who is guaranteed a secret service detail for life, isn't he much more likely to be granted house arrest or some other sort of "private" incarceration?

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

T-Mobile offer cheaper plans without Netflix. Plans that still have all the unlimited data/calling of the Netflix plan. We pay $100 fir two line with them. If I wanted to go to the cheapest plan with Netflix, it would cost me $120 a month...i.e. it's cheaper for me to stay on my no Netflix plan and pay for Netflix separately.

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Isn't his acquisition a large part of why it has such a heavy debt load in the first place?

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Same. Connect is much cleaner in my opinion. Still has some clunkiness and I don't like that touching the screen on images closes the image, but overall it's a great start.

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Facebook has gotten almost unusable lately. I freelance and get a decent number of jobs alerts through various groups I'm a part of, so I have to use it, but it is completely junk now.

I can't use it to keep up with what friends are up to any more, because in between every post from a friend is two ads and three suggestions for you.

I just want to keep up with friends, find work and keep track of events I'm invited or going to. I can't do any of that any more without scrolling through pages and pages of shit.

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] Lanfordr@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Not if the redditors that leave are the ones that do the majority of the moderating and quality posting. If the quality goes way down, people will look elsewhere. Also, I have a feeling we'll see a much bigger migration once the third party apps all die on the 30th.