They only reason I started using hotels again is because my fiance gets good deals and they usually upgrade us because she works in the industry ๐
My problem is that people talk as if these are the only options.
There are other services, like VRBO, that do the same thing and usually have the same properties. AirBNB is garbage now, so just use an alternative that doesn't have the same bad policies and high fees.
I have supported Discord with a nitro subscription for as long as I've had an account. It's a terrific program and there's no reason to expect premium features for nothing in return. The mentality that everything should be free is why we have so many fucking ad driven online business models and I'm over it. I pay for what I use if it's a good service.
Just look at the ratio on this post for a gold confirmation of those numbers. 300+ comments and 1400+ upvotes. That a decent interaction ratio.
Even just upvoting is still participation as well. Wiki is different.
Wikipedia is a different concept though.
This is social media. Wiki is information. I come here to share thoughts, but I only go to wiki to find data.
Almost everyone on social media posts random bullshit. That's why there are tons and tons of comments on every post.
Things like reddit and Lemmy probably have at least 50% participation from their daily active users.
Yeah I'm having a hard time understanding this entire thread. Like... Is everyone here completely baked?
We touch our belts and then we wash our hands. Just like we touch our dicks AND THEN WE WASH OUR HANDS.
y'all are acting like I should be washing my dick too.
No, there's no indication that Meta cares about the Fediverse.
This is all just a bunch of hype. Yes, of course we'll defederate if they try. I think that's fairly obvious.
Uh, we need participation from everyone in order for the fediverse to have legitimacy. We unfortunately need those cringe users if we want large scale adoption. Without it everything stays small scale, developers aren't attracted to the concept and people leave for functioning alternatives.
There's a 90% probability that Threads takes over from the failing Twitter. Nothing will change. No one will learn anything. More of everyone's data will be stollen.
I still have a 8700K and haven't really had the need to upgrade in a while. I'll never buy a processor with something like this in it. If Microsoft forces it in new CPUs, I'm pretty sure I can make it the rest of my life with current hardware.
The difference between .17 and .18 is pretty substantial. Lemmy.world neglected to update to .18 because captcha support was not working for new account signups, so they waited for v0.18.1
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-23_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.18.0
There should be substantial performance improvements because it moves Lemmy from using websocket to HTTP API.
There are lots of other fixes and things, but that is the most substantial change.
I can't ever seem to find time to finalize my prints :D
I built a paint booth a few months back and am hoping to find some time to start working on finishing some of these up. I figured I would post some of what I've got here for now to help with content and maybe help me find inspiration to get a move on!
Crypto? no. NFTs? yeah pretty much.
Bored Apes have dropped around 3/4 of their value over the past year. They're still worth over $60,000, but anyone that bought them, or any other NFT, over the past year has taken a massive hit.
The real question is whether NFT prices will cycle with bitcoin when crypto prices spike back up or not. Crypto has always had crazy peaks and dumps, and that pattern will probably continue, but I think NFTs are just going to go to zero. There's no real reason for crypto, so speculating on a thing that has no value that's based on a thing that has no value is real dumb.