Metaright

I will never call it “X,” just like I will never call Facebook “Meta.”

Good on you for being principled. I experience the same sort of feeling, and I’ve tried to just redirect that need for content into other media.

Don’t be too complacent, of course. I’ve seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It’s not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can’t help losing their composure.

Boomer comic 🤮

I’m just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I’m honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren’t doing the same.

I don’t get it.

This I didn’t know. So posting a comment on the microblog will make it visible to Mastodon as well?

They’re both Reddit-esque Fediverse platforms, but are developed and maintained by different people.

How so? This post is not stopping anyone from enjoying the app.

Nobody is not letting them be.

How is this meme stopping people from enjoying things?

You’d have to be very emotionally fragile to take it personally like this when someone criticizes an app you like.

Maybe if they’d fix their work culture this wouldn’t be as big of an issue.

In Pokemon, the move supersonic confuses your opponent. However, it only has a 55% chance of hitting successfully. This Zubat is using supersonic on you. Are you unscathed?!

Anxiety issue tbh

You’ve moved the goalposts. First, you said this:

I’m happy to support devs. 8 don’t like working for free. Not sure why they should have to. And so it’s either ads or subscriptions.

In other words, if you don’t pay a subscription or see ads, the developer gets no money at all. You’re using the app “for free.”

Now you’re saying that it’s not “for free,” just not enough to make a living. And what’s more, you’re using a mere suspicion to justify your very confident insistence that we need to “pick our poison,” and that a one-time purchase is just not an option.

Basically, my point is that you need to choose what point you want to make and stick with it, because your argument has changed dramatically in the course of just two comments.

That is actually what I was referring to, yes. It is a much better option than a subscription.

No I wasn’t. I was talking about a one-time purchase, which is the default option for most products in existence.

Does this meme make you feel disrespected? Why?

And so it’s either ads or subscriptions. Pick your poison.

Please think really hard for a moment and try to consider whether there are more ways to purchase something than by subscription or ad support.