That assumes you were entitled to something that nobody owed you.

If the money was never yours, can you say it was stolen from you?

Being an idiot in a hurry, I saw the medication Warfarin

It’s literally what their entire business is based on. Filtering good and bad traffic.

CanvasBlocker works well for that.

It sounds like you’re thinking there is no way to compete with Reddit. If you charge, people will use Reddit. If you have ads, people will use Reddit. People are only here because there aren’t ads and it’s free?

If you charge, you also have to offer a better experience than the free options. There’s no reason instances can’t use ads for people unwilling or unable to pay. For me I’ll gladly pay for an ad-free experience.

That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

The only real option is to charge people.
Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to run a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

You could be right. I am looking forward to it.

Wikipedia has a list.

Honestly issue #1 has “Mole Man and his Moloids: An underground leader of Subterranea, who plans to take over the outer world that rejected him. Rules over different creatures and has access to highly advanced technology.” That could be a fun place to start.

Honestly it always bums me out a little when movies like this go straight to their biggest villain or story. They should start smaller and build to the big stuff.

I had situations like this at least a few times a year in school.
I usually managed to convince the teacher I was right.

And yah this kid is almost certainly ND.
Not just the answer, but the handwriting screams dysgraphia.
It looks a lot like mine.

Of course if one truly can’t afford it, paying for search can seem a luxury.

However I would argue as a counterpoint; If there’s any online service one would consider paying for, it should be search. Search is most literally our “front page to the internet”. It’s our first stop in any quest for information. Even the founders of Google knew early on, that putting adds in search creates a perverse incentive against the best results, favoring instead worse results, so people perform more searches, creating more opportunities to show people adds.

$5 a month isn’t much to know your query will give the results you want, instead of the results advertisers want.

I’d be quite surprised if this turns out to be crap. It’ll be fun at least

Haven’t been able to find a copy of Big Shark by Tommy Wiseau.

Have you seen the movie?
They’re perfectly matched! A group of damaged people, able to take care of each other and occasionally save the world. I can see them being a much tighter team, and just as effective as The Old Avengers.

Do you mean Reddit the company, or the Reddit the community?

I think the answers are “No”, and “A little. It often gets deleted when mentioned.”

Part of me hates myself for asking this. You clearly put a lot of effort into this.

Why? There are at least a couple actual blogging options with ActivityPub support. Why try to force Lemmy into something it isn’t.

Why exactly is ‘That Old Marvel Feeling’? Specifically.

Beautiful. I love it