Fair enough. I respect the response. I've just been seeing some of the same threads throughout my time on lemmy and its essientially the same responses generally from brave users (which is their choice). Its not fully a waste but at this point the mods should just pin this thread.

most people follow advertisements right back into the clutches of corpo-controlled products.

The thing is I expect places like Lemmy and even Mastodon to eventually fall to this behavior. The reason I'm even viewing them as services that should be must for the common user is the mere ability to even move out without having to leave everything behind (if you catch what i'm saying) thats the real core difference and hope that I have. The problem is again like anlumo said, defederation is definitely going to be a major hurdle and one where major companies will especially take advantage of.

Defederation is honestly both toxic and history repeating itself i guess. There's reasons for it but it'll pass.

There are the alternatives too!

Oh then my apologies. I haven't used Sync in awhile so I completely forgotten

I love collecting CDs especially from thrift stores. The hunt for some rare or obscure albums or even some of my favorites is always thrilling.

X has finally formally announced X Pro, two days after TweetDeck users started noticing the new branding and paywall.

Shouldn't this be illegal? Implementing a sudden paywall on a previously free feature without prior warning. LMAO

Hoping that works out!

Don't go to !memes. Thats all really. Block the community because thats where 99% of the circlejerk comes from (and app shaming somehow??)

Thank you good man!

At this point, is it truly an onion article?

Nova honestly. Though it looks rather vanilla but its what i live with.