AugustWest

Hulu. Fuck Hulu.

I was given a subscription once many years ago, (2014) and it came with ads.

They helped start this pay to get ads on streaming shit. I will never forget or forgive.

On the opposite end of the spectrum: Nightflight has been fun to have, even if it isn’t for everybody. But it does what is says and no ads.

Also Kanopy is nice enough for what it is: a way to watch movies from the library.

There it is again. That term “gatekeeping”. I see it here so damn often, but nobody ever can back up the claim.

You are saying: people are actively trying to make things difficult to use in order to keep people out? Can you give me an example? Has anyone in the fediverse rejected YOUR proposal to improve anything? Pull requests made and denied?

Ever consider that it is not gatekeeping, but the lack of millions of dollars on advertising and venture capital that makes people think anything else is easy to use? Instagram and Facebook are MUCH harder to join and MUCH harder to curate for anything useful, and keep some sanity on your privacy, but nobody complains about them.

I am being disingenuous? You make a very bold claim that people are “gatekeeping” open source software. You then claim that everything in Linux outside of web browsing requires the command line. I am completely serious.

All I am asking you to do is back up those claims.

Either you have a specific gripe that should be addressed, or you are just spreading bullshit online or trolling. Which one is it?

Having to do most real things besides browsing the internet via command line on 2025

What are these “most things”? I haven’t had to use the command line on this laptop I am typing on since I got it a year ago. Files, music, shares, my own cloud storage on s3, photo editing, etc? What are “most things” to you?

And even if it was “most things” you are not showing an example of gatekeeping. Give me an example, such as you submitting a pull request for a GUI for a current command line only “most things” that was rejected.

Can you show me an example of gatekeeping in this space? I am not sure that word means what you think it means.

I mean it is open source, ANYONE can create a different UI and fork the code, which is drastic but an option.

Are you saying you have submitted UI improvements as pull requests to several projects and had them tell you they would not merge due to a desire to keep the UI the way they designed it?

I don’t like Brussel sprouts. Not even after they have been selecting them for sweet not bitter over the last 30 years.

But… It is not really surprising that Salmon and roasted Brussel sprouts go good together. I mean this is not an uncommon pairing is it?

Alright if you know you know…

Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream and Garden of Eatins Red Hot Blues tortilla chips.

You asked for surprising…

And sadly now I have to watch a video. Wouldn’t step by step instructions be quicker and more effective? Yes. They were. Now it’s some video wasting my time.

Not sure that is a great example.

Spend a few minutes adjusting the view, setting the theme and then it is swipe for everything. Super easy.

Always thumbnail view for me, I couldn’t imagine anything else.

You just click on communities and browse or search for ones to subscribe to.

Although if you are a smaller instance you may not see as many if others haven’t branched out if I understand correctly.

Seems like a not so good way to me, and thats why people are complaining.

You can just look through the communities and sub to good ones.

Maybe it would be helpful to use ALL with scaled sorting. It boosts smaller communities.

I gave up using all on reddit a very long time ago, and Lemmy is basically the same… But at least on Lemmy you have scaled sorting to try and help.

Well yeah, that’s what ALL is right? The most generic stuff. You can browse communities and subscribe as needed.

If you are going to use all It might help to enable scaled sorting.

It boosts small communities in the sort.

Why would anyone be on all? Even with reddit I I quit going to all probably 10 years ago…

And don’t let my Lemmy age fool you, I drop my account every 6 to 8 months. It took my a lot longer to figure that out on reddit.

Blocked? Why? If you don’t want to see them why are you subscribed to them?

I mean if you want niche communities you create them and subscribe to them right?