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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, I fully understand that a fascist is not the same thing as a communist. But they’re equally despicable.

  Fascism is inherently anti-democratic, communism isn’t. I know communism is a shorthand for stalinism / maoism and other totalitarian ideologies that use socialist facade (similar to national socialism) but it’s worth to make an effort not to discredit the whole idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  People half-joke that coming to Fediverse is easy, all you need to do is select a provider like you do with e-mail.

  This omits the part where you have to block dozens of communities because they shill for genocidal regimes and you can’t block them and their users wholesale using instances. You also have to be on a lookout for trolls that coordinate on those instances and use alts from other instances. If you aren’t careful enough your experience might be akin to a conspiracy Facebook group but obviously it’s users fault.

  Mastodon doesn’t have this issue despite using same Activity Pub framework.

  Kbin doesn’t have it.

  It’s Lemmy developers and instances that somehow ended up with staggering amount of tankie trolls, to the extent that exceeds even alt-right trolls on Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My criticism of that idea is also there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But defederating Threads was fine lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to have a serious talk about this instance being federated with Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and tankies in general⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern day tankies are indistinguishable from fascists since they shill for fascist shitholes like Russia and China. I don’t care about intent, everyone can lie about it. You can’t lie about outcomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re at the extreme bottom there’s little chance to move upwards in capitalism but it’s comforting to have some undesirables who have it even worse than you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do most religious conservatives support capitalist ideology?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Religion is not the goal of conservatives, it’s a tool to preserve hierarchy in the society. Capitalism is another tool that achieves that.

  The people that aren’t wealthy but are conservative benefit from hierarchy enforced by religion. It ensures that they’re not on the bottom of society - that place is intended for undesirables comprised of various minorities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix password crackdown has actually caused a growth in Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t reply to kbin accounts due to language bug so I’ll reply to myself:

  • Netflix 4k is 60 PLN / mo
  • HBO is 30 (but you could lock in 20 if you subscribed early on, which I did)
  • Dinsey+ is 29 / mo (24 / mo if yearly, which I did)
  • Prime is 49 / year (4 / mo), Amazon tries to fight local competitor on free delivery and for some reason they include streaming with that
  • Apple TV+ I’m getting as part of Apple One family sub (45 / mo but that’s Apple Music, TV+, Arcade and iCloud for my whole household)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix password crackdown has actually caused a growth in Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As a person in charge of shared Netflix subscription for my friends I noped out the moment they started password sharing crackdown. Yeah, they added “small” charge to add more users to subscription but the writing was on the wall and I realized I was the frog being boiled.

  2 of my friends went for basic plan separately. The cost of 2 basic subscriptions is about the same as 4k / 4 screens one we were using before. So yeah, subscriber count up, now Netflix needs to do a rug pull on basic plan (which they already do in US and UK).

  I don’t even see a need to pirate stuff from Netflix these days, barely anything worth watching. I still pay for HBO, Disney+, Apple TV+ (part of family Apple One) and Prime - which in the country I live in cost together about they same as Netflix did lol.