It’s not just a shitty place, as a corporation it actively fuels shitty practices that are felt across all social media and the internet in general. I’d rather take their users and build something better with them.

It doesn’t feel great when you want to make the switch just to find the analogous lemmy communities have 100-5000 members with the last post being 3 weeks ago as opposed to 100k+ with 10 posts in the last hour. The only way to fix that is with new users. Whether from the old site or not, new users is how these communities will grow and flourish. If you want to gatekeep, go ahead but I think you’ll only be slowing the adoption of the fediverse and letting the problems that incentivized its creation fester.

Nothing in particular, just Disney being Disney. Had the subscription for family, was finally able to cut the cord recently

I know it’s unlikely to have done anything much, but if no one speaks they definitely won’t be heard. At least there’s a small chance for someone to understand the company is shitty. A small grain of doubt can grow into dissent with time. Worth the gamble of a little time to me

I hand out up votes like candy because engagement is how we’re going to get new users and kill the other site. I’d rather people karma farm here than by putting money in the pockets of the ultra-rich tbh

I got another LP in the mail today and was about to put it in the crate with the rest when I impulse bought this little guy from the nearby Best Buy because I just had to hear it.

I got the Victrola as a gift a few years ago, along with a few albums to get started. I quickly learned how bad it was for the vinyl after playing some new, cheap pressings a few times. Kept getting vinyl with the intent of saving up enough for a nice direct-drive Technics, but it never worked out money-wise.

Finally decided to compromise and not wait until I could get my forever-table before just getting one. Looking forward to working my way through my collection, it’s got some real gems in there now.

First listen was the new Spiritbox album Tsunami Sea, if anyone’s curious.

Got Paradise after playing Takedown into the ground and words could not express my disappointment. I had fun and all but it never felt as good as Takedown did. Open world and Burnout is just not my favorite combination