Proud to be here with you all on this historic night. Hope it's RICO and hope Lindsey Graham is included.

I propose that we replace the phrase "hoisted by your own pitard" with "sunk by your own submarine." Feels more modern and less like my wife will laugh at me whenever I say it.

As someone who can never remember anyone's name this is hilarious and somewhat triggering lol. That clip from the end felt like what I was doing last night at a bar with my wife's coworkers. Just gotta deflect and dodge until somebody else says their name first.

Thanks for sharing.

My wife and I saw the early screening last night in IMAX. The visuals live up to the hype, but honestly we were both very disappointed with... everything else. The story was as generic as it seemed in the trailers, and it goes on way longer than it should. The acting was fine, I guess. The actors put in work, they just didn't have anything good to work with.

Everything that happens simply happens to serve the plot, not the characters. No one ever acts like a normal person, they are all just rote movie characters like it's paint-by-numbers. And the editing is atrocious. There's a lot of off-screen exposition, like they had to fill in story gaps. Similarly, scenes will just kinda end. Characters get into a predicament that seems impossible to escape? Cut away! Explain what happened? Nah, just keep moving cause we've got plot points we have to hit, and fast cause the audience certainly already knows where this is all heading anyway.

I love supporting original sci-fi in theaters, but this is just an unoriginal, bad movie imo.

Seeing a lot of comments about them "abandoning the community" and it makes my blood boil. These people have worked for free for years and all they've gotten for it is more and more headaches. Reddit has shown what the future looks like for everyone on the platform. It's authoritarian control from the dumbest motherfuckers you can imagine. Why keep investing time in that? They didn't abandon the community,Reddit did. Moving on is the only option.

Exactly. And it's driving me crazy how many mods are caving. Like, I get that you care about the community and want it to continue on, but will it even be the same now that you know how little control you actually have? Will it survive the next insane, profit driven decision Reddit makes and refuses to negotiate on? Just rip the band-aid off now like /r/interestingasfuck and others did and let them remove you. We've seen that they can't actually replace what was lost, so let them try.

I ran into this as well and honestly just can't believe it. Like, this is something my grandparent would think might happen and I'd laugh at how silly it is. Yet here we are.

Reporter: To sum up, this expert representing the major Meteorological associations says it is currently raining. And this expert from the "Crack Pot Society" says it isn't. I have a window right next to me and....both sides make good points so you'll have to decide for yourself.

It was a truly insane statement, and yet perfectly on brand for Reddit during all of this. I'm very happy that The Verge handled it so perfectly.

Hangouts was so close to perfect before they blew it all up.

Now I'm using a mix of Chat and Voice and it's terrible for everyone. Voice doesn't even support RCS from what I can tell, and all my messages with iPhone users are full of reactions. It's so annoying. I've had the same Google Voice number for over a decade, why is this so frustrating?

Through God all things are possible, so jot that down.

For real though. I hope the former Reddit 3rd party app devs know how much the community supports them. They deserve it too, after how they've been treated. Just be open with any pricing concerns and my wallet is ready.

If you watch the behind the scenes stuff it honestly is pretty impressive how competent the movies ended up being. Yes, they are terrible, but they could have been a lot worse. Peter Jackson made them watchable, at least.

The acquisition of upvotes is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better Lemmy and the rest of the internet.

It really did make my day to see it pop up here. Thanks for sharing, and glad you liked it.

The first part of your username had me thinking you were wrong, but the last part checks out.

Agreed. All of the comments against the protests on Reddit kind of give it away in how little they seem to actually understand how Reddit works and what made it great for so long. They see it as just another feed for them to browse and not a community to foster and participate in. Lemmy feels so great in comparison.

The developer originally said he could sustain a $3 a month subscription, but after checking the numbers for higher usage account he saw that it couldn't really work.

From /u/DBrady

I'm still looking into it, gathering data etc. Unfortunately the average call rates when broken down to the top 2, 5, 10% etc of users is painting a much different picture. This is the cohort of users I would expect to possibly convert to a subscription model and the average rates for those users can be 3,4,5 even 600 hundred calls per day just by the shear amount they use the app. Some of the top users are well over 1000 per day and sometimes over 2000.

So I'm not sure yet. It would probably have to be a usage based subscription model if it was going to be anything and I'm not sure that's worth doing. I am still looking into it but unfortunately I don't think my earlier price points will work.

Lots of new, unique communities and the occasional titty? I'm sold.

The Fediverse is wild man, wild.

Which, and I've said this before, is awesome. The Fediverse is wild.

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