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It's totally dumb because it's not about getting a good deal for consumers or artists, purely about rights-holders maximising revenue. If they can't negotiate a good enough deal in a region they'll simply not allow it to be streamed. This is what happens when they separate the cultural value of "content" from the monetary value of it, the perceived desirability. Viewers and listeners want a good show to watch or album to hear, rights-holders simply want to get a good deal, regardless of what the stuff it.

Adventure mode was my favourite way to play DF, so really looking forward to how that's coming along.

"Hope you're all enjoying your pizza there, guys, it just shows how much fun this company is to work for. But time's a wastin'. Rest assured there will be more company-sanctioned fun soon"

I well remember playing this with software rendering initially, then getting a Geforce 2 and being blown away with the difference.

Recently finished reading David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs and in it he talks about asking the question who brings social value to society? A lot of rich people do not, especially the super-rich who largely get their wealth from exploitation and rentierism. Having a society that properly values socially-useful people would incentivise more socially-valuable action. Until the people defining what current society's standard of success is move on nothing is going to change.

Also been using Tixati for years now. Does the job.

He was always there to take the flak anyway. He is now past his usefulness as far as the investors are concerned. he'll be jettisoned.

This is the sort of comment I used to go to Reddit for. Quality.

The difference between Reddit and other large sources for media is the popular places on Reddit were where you'd encounter US bias, whereas other places were easier to tailor to your locality (I'm in the UK). Maybe it's because you're effectively interacting with a lot of random people whereas Twitter or Facebook you were more likely to be interacting with people you know or who were from the same region.

True, it just seemed to be a lot more prominent on Reddit for some reason.

I like to think, in a similar way to Mastodon, a fair proportion of users here want it to be something totally different and not a new version of Reddit. It doesn't have to be big, or popular, or make headlines, as long as it is a good community with lots of discussion and information that'll do for me.

Personally I would like to leave all the "drama" bollocks behind, that whole atmosphere around the large general-interest subs which dominated and sadly defined The Reddit Experience for casual users and people outside. That's my main desire when not wanting this to be Reddit 2.0, that and a move away from the heavily US-centric bias, in views, content and assumption it's the default lived experience of the users.