For a super bizarre experience, I posted this yesterday, and it took me a couple of tries. My post kept failing until I replaced "Mastodon" with a weird Unicode representation, and changed "random billionaire" to "random owner".

Is tinfoil hat a good look on me?
#twitterexit #censorship

To revisit: My main issue with this, as someone who grew up with ad-based flow-tv. Apart from #live sport events, I will not watch ad-supported programming ever again, where it takes 3h15m to watch a 2 hour film, for example.

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HBO Max just broke #streaming TV's unwritten rule | TechHive

https://www.techhive.com/article/1435847/hbo-max-just-broke-streaming-tvs-unwritten-rule.html

"The removal of shows from HBO Max means WB Discovery is able to save money in residuals paid to cast and crews of productions, on top of the money saved by not continuing with the shows at all."

So...we give them money to stream the shows. If...if they take the shows away, we will...stop giving them money. Just so they can fuck over people who make the shows we want to pay to watch? How...how does that work?

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/westworld-hbo-max-the-nevers-canceled-1235458657/

I'm technically not new here (2017), but it's been a "Lovely place, undisturbed by humans!" type relationship. I ran here, whenever something stupid happened to the bird site, relieved it was still here, but lonely.

The idea of instances centered around different topics while tapping into the Federation feels a little bit like Usenet back in the dark ages, which I liked a lot.

It feels like it might go somewhere this time. I hope it does. Now here's a picture I asked a robot to make. Peace ✌️