Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
They’re all switching back to providing content for free which would not happen if it failed. Only ones who can afford subscription model are ones that already established their brand and even then some failed
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
NPR Guardian Vox
Vs
Tech crunch Time Atlantic
So much smarm for something you don’t really know.
- Comment on Why is AOC a big deal? She just speaks common sense and calls out absurdity. Have we really gone that far off the rails where we don't do it ourselves? 6 days ago:
Because a lot of you are cowards and hid away instead of helping to shape public opinion. When these leaders like AOC and others do not have people creating content on popular platforms then it leaves a runway for the opposition to create any narrative they want. It’s a numbers game at this point. The opposition convinced supporters to run away and hide and they did willingly.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
It worked for NYT because they already built a brand and had established customers. For others it failed. The model failed more than it succeeded aside from some special cases
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
There is currently a subscription reversal because the model failed for now than it succeeded. NYT is in a spot where it could succeed off its established brand. But others it didn’t work. The trend is the subscription model fails. Times, WP, Atlantic and others couldn’t sustain it.
Also I’m left as fuck, I don’t care if quality is good or the model work to help some faceless group of shareholders. I’ll support whatever destroys anyone putting up pay walls online. Burn it all down. It’s the only way.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
Not sure if it was all ads. Like how some of the biggest eras of music coincide with pirating music. Maybe you can squeeze some subscriptions by blocking people but over time it isn’t sustainable. When you provide an easily accessible platform that people want to come to, you can leverage that to other sales, not just ads.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
I don’t know. But this doesn’t work
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
Because profits don’t only come from subscriptions.
- Comment on NYT hiding information regarding a health related food recall behind a paywall 6 days ago:
Because the first 15 years online it was all for free and we all read much more news on their sites until they put it behind paywalls. Now we all get our news from memes. So that’s why.
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 weeks ago:
I wish more of us didn’t. But we’re not really set up to keep these topics fresh. Even look at lemmy. Moderation has created momentum killing boxes that suck the life and energy out of any current events. Almost by design
- Comment on What happens when you just refuse to pay and go ... ? 2 weeks ago:
Good try but the lefts goldfish brain already moved on.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
Warm syrup? No thanks
- Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero? 1 month ago:
Where you fighting that fight because everybody who seems to care is also removing themselves from all social media. They keep saying they’re doing things locally like …
Meeting in coffee shops?
Like weirdly I’ve had this phrase said to me multiple times and it’s so silly. Hold on guys I’m going to release a new movie I spent years making. I refuse to use the space with millions of people cause I don’t like who created it. I’m going to stand around Starbucks and tell people about it. Find me 40 years to build up a cult following
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yea it’s insane. We need to get back to the idea that anyone is replaceable. That’s the safest they can be when people realizes any successful attempts wouldn’t even matter.
Security industry is incestuous
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
My first comment was about working 8hrs for 9hrs. You came here being smug about 9hrs being acceptable. It isn’t and shouldn’t be. You can’t even engage honestly and never intended to. You are who you are
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
Depends on the job.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
I didn’t realize it was gutted. We’re 7.5 here with 2 15 minute breaks.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
I’m asking because I don’t know the answer. That’s the point of asking you to explain so I can actually answer you.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
How so
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
It’s not their choice if they’re them coming here to complain they don’t have time for their own life.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
Lol
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
No
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
Should they
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
Yea, cool.
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
I love reading all the comments from people sharing a similar experience. This is what we deserve
- Comment on How tf do people who work 8-5 M-F get any life done? 1 month ago:
9-5?
You work 9 hrs?
- Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here? 1 month ago:
100%
CCP was a very strong grip here.
I’m going to get crucified for what I’m going to say. But here is when I noticed it. A few years ago lemmy was one of the only places AI was getting hated on very hard. Like other places had some small posts or conversations but they were pretty mature. But lemmy was hateful.
What I noticed was that it reminded me of something at the tip of my tongue. Then it hit me. The posts were all the same posts I saw in republican spaces. Like word for word same headline. Same energy, same bullshit. Except instead of immigrants it was AI.
I’m going to stop you people right there because I know what the fuck the comments will be already. So just stop. This isn’t a comment about consequences of AI pro or con. It’s a comment about an observation. Something I’ve noticed and the more I saw the more it made sense.
Lemmy was targeted hard and was one of the early generators of anti AI sentiment. It was impressive. What made it all make sense is that as much as we hate AI, it’s here. It’s not going away. Like any new frontier, the people who are first to new land will become the powerful and rich for the next generation. If I’m not fast enough, maybe I can make others slower. If we know CCP is here. And we know countries are trying to race their industries to build new patents and innovations in this new frontier, then it makes sense why such a small site like lemmy full of early adopters was targeted. It’s why posts were reminiscent of the astro turfing we all saw in republican spaces about immigrants. It’s not the there are not problems its about amplification, framing and narrative building.
CCP want western nationals to be behind the ball on innovation. They contributed massively to pushing stories easily on about AI taking jobs, raping your women and stealing our way of life. So if you really want to so CCP in action then search up the early AI posts here if they haven’t already scrubbed them.
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 2 months ago:
It’s never going to happen. Look at it responses here. Ass backwards. You’re giving the modern printing press and these people say “meet 3 friends locally and drunk craft beers”. They’re invested in an image and lifestyle more than doing what is needed to win. The left is cooked in a modern world. They haven’t lost the ground they have in the past 2 decades because the right are a bunch of morons as the left likes say. They have lost these past 2 decades because the left is owned and controlled by these people who failed to adapt.
- Comment on From a socialist perspective, what are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)? 2 months ago:
Yea, tell all your socialist friends to delete theirs too. These are pretty much channels that directly connect and network groups together. Its where ideas are spread and groups organize. What needs to happen is all leftist and socialist need to be run out of those platforms so that the eyes and ears of the right can be given red carpet to spread only their ideas. It’s a great plan.
- Comment on Does anybody actually work from 09:00 to 17:00 2 months ago:
Where are you all located. I’m in Canada. I work 8-4 or 9-5 depending. I have flexibility to choose.