Yeah look, everyone has to find their own way, I’m not trying to make the case that catch & release is going to be better for everyone, and there’s certainly a case to be made for archiving.

The thing that eventually got me was maintaining a big raid array. Lots of heat, power, drives dying every now and again. When it only takes a few minutes to download something and I never go near my bandwidth quota (or it’s unlimited maybe) going to catch & release made a lot of sense. I’m not religious about it but I generally delete things after I’ve listened / watched.

do donations need to be truthful in plain terms of how the funds are used ?

I think in 2023 parlance the claim is probably plain enough to be “truthful”.

Giving gold supports the contributors you love

It’s pretty well established that receiving gold on reddit is perks like… a gold star or something, rather than actual real gold.

I’ve been catch and release for 5 years or so now.

Archiving is such a huge drain on time / effort / resources.

Yeah it’s a poorly considered generalisation, but the point is you’re not going to be getting emails from your service provider.

Yeah a lot less for a lot better.

Also, people paying for Usenet subscriptions since forever.

This opinion contradicts the polls though right?

I mean it’s a shitty headline and I dislike the use of the term “inevitable”, but polls suggest that voters are eager for a Trump dictatorship.

Aparently not?

There’s plenty of logical reasons to deny him another term, but none of it seems to matter.

Yeah honestly ebooks and audiobooks are a solved problem thanks to MAM.

I guess there are exceptions, it’s unknowable but one wonders how long it would’ve taken you to discover nebula some other way.

If you didn’t know of it, then you didn’t need or want it.

This is such a bizarre concept to me.

Why would I want someone to convince me to buy something with a “good pitch” ?

Yes but you watching the ad doesn’t make money for the creator.

Yes absolutely.

Pro tip: choose an appropriate annual budget, divide that amongst different projects in a logical way.

I don’t really read ebooks, MAM has been supremely adequate for audiobooks for me though. I’ve never gone looking for an audiobook and been unable to find it there.

It never ever seemed to work for me.

There’s no need to answer.

Stop whatever it was they detected. Don’t do that any more.

WDYM “block your account” exactly?

You’re being paranoid. Google isn’t going to dick around blocking individuals.

Imagine being convinced that giving away what little money you have to a huge corporation was “right”.

moderators wishing to remain neutral or avoid conflict

It’s always in the name of “free speech”.

I honestly don’t get the big deal about defederation.

Free speech doesn’t really seem achievable on social media because bad actors will always manipulate votes to ensure that some opinions are promoted more than others.

For example, the opinions of lemmygrad should probably consume ~1% of the total informed opinion “pie chart” if you will. They can be adequately represented by some idiot posting their opinion in a thread once in a while - yet here we are. Their bizarre takes are sucking all the oxygen out of the room.

Surely there’s a better way to ensure that all opinions on a given matter can be considered rather than just saying we must allow our streets to be overrun with zombies lest we forget they exist.