Temple Square

TIL you can cross between the border of Oklahoma and Colorado, technically…

That music video from the rooftop!

I guess you could say at least The World Trade Center went out with a bang!

^(I’ll show myself out now)^

A fool and his money are soon parted. From the same class of vehicles that tried to lock heated seats behind a monthly subscription.

You know what’s nice? Those cars can F right off. I won’t buy one new. And never will buy one used.

Always will be “budget” cars (Corolla, Civic, Versa, etc.) that won’t screw around with this crap because the buyers can’t afford to screw around with it.

TRY to paywall a heated seat in a Civic. I dare Honda. It won’t be more than 10 minutes before someone has it badly wired up like an aftermarket subwoofer.

That was my reaction when Elon first bought twitter. It’s like he’s so stupid he thinks Twitter is the only possible platform that could ever be a twitter.

It turns out, we’re all pretty clever at figuring out places to talk. The talking is going to happen. Where we do the talking keeps changing.

Before the pandemic, the US wasn’t too bad. Large cities got expensive, but most places a movie ticket ran around $10.

Now, to make up for lost money, some chains are trying to charge extra for getting “a good seat” or other perks that used to be just part of the price of the ticket.

I think they overestimate demand. I haven’t been to a movie since 2019. I don’t think I’m missing out. Home TVs are just so big now.

Agreed. RiF was my world. I literally took the news re: API changes worse than when my girlfriend broke up with me (shortly before). My stages of grief have centered more around reddit than her, lol.

Now Reddit have shown they are toxic. And I no longer wish to add value to their platform.

I miss some subs, but honestly this place is FUN. It’s so old school! And it’s great to see the activity increase daily.

“He tells it like it is”

Our lead-poisoned parents may have bought into that crap. But we know all that is is stubborn arrogance. And solving problems requires open-minded thinking and chasing the problem, not the messenger/customer/employee.

That’s fine. We make a new place.

That’s the beauty of the internet (and similarly, America). We just find a space to talk.

I realized today that maybe all I need is something to scroll and some comments to read.

Sunday, this place felt dead. But each day the traffic seems to pick up and I miss Reddit less and less.

In a few weeks, I won’t miss Reddit at all (at this pace)

But not for me. I’m forever gone.

And if there are enough power users (lots of comments, posts) like me who feel the same, it will have an impact.

There’s a HUGE middle ground between “nothing changes” and “reddit goes out of business.” As we see with Twitter, you can have a zombie platform that persists but slowly loses inertia month after month.

It’s not that Reddit dies abruptly. It’s that the platform is wounded now and, without attention, will bleed out slowly over many years.