Metaright

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I will never call it “X,” just like I will never call Facebook “Meta.”

Good on you for being principled. I experience the same sort of feeling, and I’ve tried to just redirect that need for content into other media.

Don’t be too complacent, of course. I’ve seen people on the Fediverse turn feral and Reddit-esque during discussions of particular culture war issues. It’s not completely peachy here all the time; there are some subjects about which some people can’t help losing their composure.

Boomer comic 🤮

I’m done with that place.

Alternative take: Piracy is, at worst, morally neutral, and does not have a significant adverse effect on the profits of the people who produce media.

Calm down.

I wish companies would stop with subscription models.

It’s so cute!

I’m just going to keep calling it Twitter, and I’m honestly unsure of why everyone else, media outlets included, aren’t doing the same.

This is your world on late-stage capitalism.

I don’t get it.

Paying for her cab fare home sounds reasonably polite.

Regulate the market? What are you, some kind of communist?

I think they make a good point, regardless.

Elaborate.

I missed it! What did it say?!

I missed it! What did it say?!

If Reddit moderators only removed content for the sake of keeping things on topic, people wouldn’t hate the place so much. There’s a reason the mods over there are so universally maligned, and it’s not because they’re beacons of rationality and objective reasoning.