Unfortunately, the time has come for me to leave Lemmy. Time will show where we all end up. I’ll see you in the future… maybe sooner than you think?

Edit: Follow up post is here. Don’t worry. You’re not getting rid of me that easy. I’m just switching to piefed.world

  • Alchalide@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    I’d be more than willing to throw them a couple of euros each month. But paying like 14 per month for something I get for free now is just too much.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      That’s been my feeling all along. $5-10 per month I can justify, but I really can’t justify $23/mo to cover both my and my wife’s accounts, especially given that they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers. And honestly when they were getting really pushy about subscribing a year or two ago I refused because I don’t give in to pushiness like that by tech companies

      • TheRealKuni@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        5 months ago

        they reportedly still sometimes show ads to premium subscribers

        I’ve been on YouTube Premium since it was YouTube Red, and I’ve never seen an ad when I’m logged in.

        I justify it because YouTube Music is included, so I can get music streaming without paying for a similar service from Spotify or Apple or Amazon or whomever, and also get ad-free YouTube on all my devices and whatnot.

      • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        5 months ago

        I really like sh.itjust.works and I’m a mod here. But if I wasn’t, I’d be going to piefed’s main instance in a second. They seem to have a nice configuration. Not a fan of world, but I’m sure there are other great instances.

          • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            5 months ago

            What’s the issue with memes? I have a piefed.social account set up for when the platform is mature enough for me to bail on Lemmy, but I’ll happily go elsewhere if there’s a good reason.

              • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                5 months ago

                Ah, okay. As long as .social is just limiting hosting memes, not blocking them from elsewhere, I don’t have a problem with them. I’m with you, I think memes have their place.

      • toomanypancakes@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        5 months ago

        Which then lines up with the third big reason, the Lemmy devs are transphobic assholes.

        This is kinda a big deal for me too tbh. Do you happen to know, is there a good (android) piefed app, or is it website only for now? I imagine there’ll be some of their aren’t already, but my brief play store search wasn’t very fruitful.

          • ɯsnN@piefed.zipEnglish
            5·
            5 months ago

            Voyager does support PieFed now, and, while it’s still developing, it’s come along quickly and can be used as a daily driver. Interstellar also supports PieFed, but I like Voyager better (just personal preference I guess). I’ve seen that Mlem is working on PieFed support for iOS.

  • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 months ago

    They only offer Premium LITE now, which feels extremely ironic after rejecting it all these years. It’s like: “So, you declined my offer for years but have you considered… a WORSE OFFER, human?”

  • BombOmOm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    5 months ago

    But will it continue to be your last post in the future? Or is it simply your last post at this moment?

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    3·
    5 months ago

    Given how much tech likes to play “later then” with consent over a hard no i can only conclude their management is full of rapists

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    5 months ago

    Is this merely switching from Lemmy to something else, or are you leaving the fediverse completely?

    If it’s the latter, then I wish you the very best of luck. I don’t know you very well, but I remember you having had some personal issues in the past. Hopefully those aren’t coming back and you’ve just decided to simply move on. Regardless, your memes and shitposting will be missed.

    Good luck to you! Or, as a wise man once wrote, “So long, and thanks for all the fish!”

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    I use Revanced, and I still get the occasional ad for premium. It makes me chuckle out of pity every time.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
    32·
    5 months ago

    Meh, I decided to just pop for Premium. I realized that of the online streaming services, YouTube is the one I use the most. And Premium gives me access to YTMusic as well as GMM which was paywalled back when Premium started. And all for the same basic price as Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu which I barely use and therefore dropped.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      I’ve had it for years with a group of friends and even with the price increase, it’s still well worth it (maybe $6 converted).

      It’s the only media subscription I have and I use it every single day.

      I don’t get this extreme hatred for asking money for such a massive service. YouTube streams unfathomable amounts of video and there’s no way it’s a profitable business to begin with.

      • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        I will try to justify the hatred. I have no issue with them asking for money for a service. My issue is them building and adertising it as a free service. For years they ran it at a loss bank rolled by unlimited google dollars. It was impossible to compete with a company that makes no money and has no intention of making money. Then once they have 99% market share they turn around and use that stranglehold to raise prices on users. Year by year the cost keeps going up, the ads get longer and more frequent. Because where else can users go?

        Its awful, I hate it and I cant support it.

      • buddascrayon@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Well the hatred for the ads I get. Not just cuz people don’t want to deal with ads in their content. But YouTube’s algorithm or whatever it is that decides what ad you get to see too often targets the wrong people for the wrong things. Or you get a 2 to 4 minute unskipable ad for a 10 minute video. It can be frustrating.

      • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        5 months ago

        Price went up for people not grandfathered in. I couldn’t pay my sub in between job loss and lost my $7/month sub, but most of my music was on Google music now YT music, so I pay for it too.

  • whaleross@lemmy.world
    8·
    5 months ago

    YouTube keeps showing me offers to give me two months premium for free, but when I click it they offer only one.

    I’m pretty sure this is illegal in the EU but I can’t be bothered so I stick with the ad blocker and reset the cookies every once in a while.