Steps forward are few and far between these days, I’ll take what I can get.

We used to call this Club Duvet.

Are there still really a lot of 45’s in circulation?

Old people.

That’s not an experience I’m willing to pay for in its current form. But I could definitely see a path for it to become one, thanks for putting it on my radar.

I’m okay except for the walled garden part. I get referred to articles in many ways, none of them in Apple News. If I can ever log into the actual publications sites with my Apple ID and get the article, then I’m on.

Yeah that’s what I used for the first 6 months to try it out.

Ffffffffff

I used Kagi for a few months when other engines failed. It did come through a few times. But paying $5 a month to get one extra good search result per month was a hard sell for me. If they offered a much much smaller package of lime 20-50 searches per month or just pay as you go, I’d definitely be in.

I’d say their decision making was mostly forced by their drop in ad revenue and subscriptions forced by the internet.

Though I do wish that someone would make a Spotify for news so that I could pay once and get access to all of them and at least give them 10 cents per article or something, because I will never pay the subscription cost any are asking.

As much as I’d like to support them, the price to utility ratio is way the fuck off at the prices they ask now.

I’m just honored I hogged up 3 whole replies when thousands are out there waiting!! I’d best release you to your adoring public.

You are not Lemmy, and Lemmy is not you. But maybe I was too harsh in saying it’s not important.

IMHO Lemmy should be fun, not a responsibility. ITT if it starts to become a burden, you should just relieve yourself of the burden by pressing the mark done button.

But having fun is also important, so I take that back. And you are important to me, Stamets, but you are not Lemmy, and Lemmy is not you.

solid ass snake

Nothing on Lemmy is important ;-)

Thanks for all the fishes Stamets, I release you from having to reply to my comments. Isn’t there a mark all read button?

I’ll take whatever ass I can get

Exactly. The only way is to block it and then choose something on your device whenever you want to show them something, and never let them use it without you choosing the content. The algorithm will always lead them to the darkest bowels of garbage content in my experience.

The stuff he was watching was more “am I gonna catch Mikey? Mikey is a chicken” kind of stuff. If he was really learning about the mechanics and how to program stuff in Minecraft with redstone or something, I could get behind it. I know Minecraft well enough to know the junk from the good stuff. And he watched probably 10 videos like this every day for more than a year, so I think from those thousands of videos he’s learned whatever he would have learned already.

Now instead he is mostly watching chess videos and playing on an app called ChessKid which I’m much more happy with.

Well… as long as it was done gently…

Yeah I mean if a parent was always curing the content, it could be useful. But to me that’s the same as not letting them have it, you just put on some YouTube videos every so often for them that you choose on your device (we do this now, I just don’t allow it on their devices).