Unfortunately, the time has come for me to leave Lemmy. Time will show where we all end up. I’ll see you in the future… maybe sooner than you think?
Edit: Follow up post is here. Don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easy. I’m just switching to piefed.world
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Given how much tech likes to play “later then” with consent over a hard no i can only conclude their management is full of rapists
I thought federated meant people see your posts no matter where you log in. But if going to piefed means you’re “leaving” lemmy, kthxbye I guess. I don’t see the need for an announcement.
If you’re using a 3rd party client like Boost or Voyager it might not recognize the pifed domain as an activitypub instance… our friendly devs are doing there best
I’m just looking at lemmy.world in a web browser - does that count?
The FUCK man?! You nearly gave me a heart attack!
Sorry…
FOR NOTHING
Meh, I decided to just pop for Premium. I realized that of the online streaming services, YouTube is the one I use the most. And Premium gives me access to YTMusic as well as GMM which was paywalled back when Premium started. And all for the same basic price as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu which I barely use and therefore dropped.
I’ve had it for years with a group of friends and even with the price increase, it’s still well worth it (maybe $6 converted).
It’s the only media subscription I have and I use it every single day.
I don’t get this extreme hatred for asking money for such a massive service. YouTube streams unfathomable amounts of video and there’s no way it’s a profitable business to begin with.
I will try to justify the hatred. I have no issue with them asking for money for a service. My issue is them building and adertising it as a free service. For years they ran it at a loss bank rolled by unlimited google dollars. It was impossible to compete with a company that makes no money and has no intention of making money. Then once they have 99% market share they turn around and use that stranglehold to raise prices on users. Year by year the cost keeps going up, the ads get longer and more frequent. Because where else can users go?
Its awful, I hate it and I cant support it.
Price went up for people not grandfathered in. I couldn’t pay my sub in between job loss and lost my $7/month sub, but most of my music was on Google music now YT music, so I pay for it too.
I’d be more than willing to throw them a couple of euros each month. But paying like 14 per month for something I get for free now is just too much.
They’ve been making money off my private data for years, I ain’t paying for shit now
There’s no way YouTube is a profitable business.
With YouTube Family it’s €5.50 for me and my friends.
That’s been my feeling all along. $5-10 per month I can justify, but I really can’t justify $23/mo to cover both my and my wife’s accounts, especially given that they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers. And honestly when they were getting really pushy about subscribing a year or two ago I refused because I don’t give in to pushiness like that by tech companies
My group of friends pay €5.50 each for premium.
Spotify is €14.61.
they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers
I’ve been on YouTube Premium since it was YouTube Red, and I’ve never seen an ad when I’m logged in.
I justify it because YouTube Music is included, so I can get music streaming without paying for a similar service from Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whomever, and also get ad-free YouTube on all my devices and whatnot.
Good for you, but it doesn’t take much searching to find “I pay for premium, why am I seeing ads?”
How do I subscribe to a user or community on piefed.world and see it in my lemmy.world feed?
Paste the link to it into your search bar and it should pop up like a normal community.
You can’t follow users from lemmy (yet).
78? You must be new to the internet.
YouTube keeps showing me offers to give me two months premium for free, but when I click it they offer only one.
I’m pretty sure this is illegal in the EU but I can’t be bothered so I stick with the ad blocker and reset the cookies every once in a while.
Is this merely switching from Lemmy to something else, or are you leaving the fediverse completely?
If it’s the latter, then I wish you the very best of luck. I don’t know you very well, but I remember you having had some personal issues in the past. Hopefully those aren’t coming back and you’ve just decided to simply move on. Regardless, your memes and shitposting will be missed.
Good luck to you! Or, as a wise man once wrote, “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”
Yeah just switching to Piefed.world, no worries. Sorry I made you waste all that effort <3
aye piefed gang
What is a piefed?
I’m an idiot and it’s hard to explain but this announcement explains it pretty easily.
It functions on the fediverse, just like Lemmy, but is a different platform/front end. They function damn near identically but Piefed has a more active development team that actually responds to requests and a dev team that isn’t transphobic as hell. That’s the selling point for me. I think the only feature that’s not available on Piefed that I use pretty often is being able to paste images into text blocks. Fairly sure they’re working on that too. You can upload them, there’s a clicky for it, but it just won’t automatically upload and paste the link like it does on Lemmy. Literally the only thing “missing” that I’ve noticed.
Thanks! Making an account
What did the Lemmy dev team do that was transphobic?
you should have a look at this https://lemmy.ca/post/26211900
That “biological man” term is so fucking annoying. I know, I know, it’s because of transphobia, but “trans woman” already covers that!
Not worries. Meant every word. Plus I got to make an H2G2 reference. Everybody wins.
Hell yeah. I’m just sad I couldn’t find a way to weave towel into something. I’ve been going through some shit and I am TIRED.
YT:
Oh, any specific reason you’re switching software?
Piefed has a few extra features that I like and I know that the couple features that are currently missing are on their way. The development team is pretty quick to respond which doesn’t affect me a ton but I don’t want to support a shitty dev team. Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes. If I’m going to be posting a lot then I don’t want to be doing it using what they made.
Also Fxomt is convincing.
Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes.
This is kinda a big deal for me too tbh. Do you happen to know, is there a good (android) piefed app, or is it website only for now? I imagine there’ll be some of their aren’t already, but my brief play store search wasn’t very fruitful.
I don’t actually know and I’m kind of ashamed to admit that. I’ve heard that Voyager has got some early support but I know nothing about any other apps. I’m sorry!
Voyager does support PieFed now, and, while it’s still developing, it’s come along quickly and can be used as a daily driver. Interstellar also supports PieFed, but I like Voyager better (just personal preference I guess). I’ve seen that Mlem is working on PieFed support for iOS.
Voyager does have some support, can confirm!
Hey, no worries! Just wanted to check, thanks anyway :)
Haha, convincing or persistent? I guess he can be both :p
Deeeeeeefinitely a little of Column A and a little of Column B lol
LMAO
I’m unfortunately stuck here until Boost implements PieFed support
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I use boost on my phone too! Definitely waiting for implementation from Ruben. But I don’t mind waiting. The dudes a superhero as far as I’m concerned.
Big big shoutout to Boost for Android. FANTASTIC APP and my favorite by far.
Oh please tell me it’s actually in the works. I want to switch to piefed but I’ve been a Boost user for years and every time I try to get used to something else I’m just reminded how much I like Boost.
No clue. I don’t know Ruben at all, I’ve only talked to him a couple times in passing about Boost bugs. But given the work he does on everything else, I’m just sort of assuming. Dude is a king.
But will it continue to be your last post in the future? Or is it simply your last post at this moment?
They only offer Premium LITE now, which feels extremely ironic after rejecting it all these years. It’s like: “So, you declined my offer for years but have you considered… a WORSE OFFER, human?”
I demand my M&Ms be gendered and fuckable!
