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Honestly I think it’s weird that people think social media is tech.
Honestly I think it’s weird that people think social media is tech.
The nuanced soft ban you’re talking about is just the topic of the community.
When musk does something tech related that’s tech. When he does something that’s not tech related that’s off topic.
Twitter is a social media website it’s not tech.
Settle down mate.
Yeah but relevant to current tech events? Not that often.
It’s complicated I guess.
Musk offering starlink access to gaza is tech news, him changing subscription prices for xitter is not.
I guess I just mean that a happening is not “tech” by virtue of musk saying it.
No, that’s just how it appears through the advertising revenue model.
Bear in mind this model has been actively developed over the last 20+ years. Imagine of other models enjoyed that kind of attention.
Consumers pay for ads in product costs. Access for poor people is a myth.
IDK who the fuck this guy is but he’s speaking my language.
Fuck the advertising revenue model.
Well, it’s the default way of paying for physical objects and professional services.
It hasn’t really been the default way of paying for online services.
That’s fine, your position is reasonable and I can accept that.
Over the years I’ve become more and more opposed to advertising of any form. It makes me very grumpy - probably unreasonably so.
I understand that services need to make money but $10 / month for something like twitter just seems absurd to me.
Ads are one method of payment, cash is another.
This might be true if the cash payment was equal to the ad revenue per person, but it isn’t.
Ad-revenue per person would be a few cents per month, but even if it were $1 per user month, paying $4 or whatever to remove the ads means the ads are punitive. Pay the subscription or we will drive you nuts with shitty ads.
The whole “pay to avoid ads” model is so weird though.
Sure, it’s a fundamental concept of strategic management.
torrentio
probably none! I’m new to stremio and orion was the only way I could find to link stremio to real debrid. Thanks for mentioning this one I’ll look into it!
orion is non-free btw. I assume torrentio is also paid ?
edit: just installed, I see it’s free. Looks great. I may have been turned off previously by the utorrent logo 😆
Well that’s good to hear. Tormenting sucks in Australia.
Apparently it wasn’t so much a “golden” goose.
They were all happy to let them run at below cost just gathering up market share.
Now they’re trying to re-position to be profitable. Their subscriber numbers will definitely take a hit but they will have done the math.
stremio + real-debrid + orion
Basically, orion finds the torrents, a debrid service cache’s torrents and streams them to you, stremio renders the stream.
No need for a VPN, no need to seed, no need for the *arr family, nice UI with high wife-approval-factor to browse content.
What’s the situation with usenet these days ? I preferred nzbs over torrents for several years but it just became impossible at around the time nzbmatrix chucked it in.
it’s got crypto.
There’s a “we told you this would happen” going on here.
If chromium didn’t have a monopoly amongst browsers, they would have a much harder time pushing this through.
Imagine everyone using a browser built by an advertising company.
To exclude social