• 0 Posts
  • 250 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 7th, 2023

help-circle

  • I’m 28 so a little older than the prompt, I have a setup i never use it. I used it a lot as a kid but it doesn’t hold up to the alternatives.

    • tv & movies: the worst matchup with alternatives. In the time of the first adbreak i could add the show or movie to my *arr and get it before the ads are done. I also don’t have to tune in on the hour/half hour and can switch to my phone/pc if I want/need to go somewhere else.
    • live news: i don’t like tv news generally, but if i wanted i could watch it for free on YouTube or via free app.
    • live sports: the most compelling usecase. Unfortunately when I did follow sports I followed a team from the next city over, which means they get no coverage here making it useless. It also more ads than streams. Streams are honestly still pretty inconvenient and still pretty ad filled (banner ads, “this goal sponsored by” physical ads in the arena). None of this is worth it to me anymore so I just don’t watch anymore.











    • inception - dreams within dreams
      • less known honourable mention: Paprika - inception if it was an anime and the main character was a therapist
    • Your Name - anime romance scifi
    • prince of eygpt (in spite of not being religious) - story of moses
      • less known honourable mention: Jesus christ superstar (because I’m not religious) - what if Jesus Christ’s death was a disco musical
    • 2001 space odyssey - I’m afraid I can’t let you do that dave
    • But I’m a cheerleader - young Natasha Lyonne (from oitnb) and Dante Basco (zuko from atla) go to a gay conversion camp run by rupaul
    • equillibrium - in a world where emotion is illegal, Christian bale is a gun ninja policeman
    • Castle in the sky - because I would feel bad putting every ghibli film







  • Personally I prefer free range Fediverses.

    But seriously, I think it’s still an extremely tough sell to get people to pay for social media. I also think this is only meaningfully effective at a pretty large scale, I think the fediverse is better with many small servers. If we do want this sort of larger scale development I don’t think “donate to vote” is particularly appealing to the average user.

    I think a more enticing model I think is pay for feature work. An estimate is made for a features difficulty and then users donate (with some sort of fee to go towards server maintenance/upkeep) towards a feature and if the goal is reached the feature is worked on. This is already a popular model for particularly translations of freeware.