Exactly. And Reddit is doubling down on monetizing content it doesn't create itself. Not only are the mods completely free and unpaid for who curate and hone the best posts for their subreddits, now the subredditors are having their comments monetized by Reddit for free. And the upvoting ensures that high quality data is already reinforcement learning via meatbots.
It took me about a year to move to my own domain, but it was a great opportunity to clean up 20 years worth of unused accounts, so a net positive I think.
I’ve kept my @gmail address as a backup, though I only check it about once a week now. Plus, I’m free to use it for any new random accounts I don't really care.
I could modify my email address in all my important accounts, and over the years a few have prevented me from doing it (butif they don't let you change your email address, it's generally not a good service). Which is okay, because my password manager remembers which ones those are :-).
I don't believe Individualism is the issue, unless you mean by that a specifically American variety if Individualism. Individualism also comes with the idea of individual responsibility, and many relatively individualistic countries are close to, or in certain ways exceed, Japan (e.g., in Japan people tend to leave trash in public spaces to a degree that would be inconceivable in many Western countries).
Japanese are more individualist than Americans. They just don't apply this to graffiti.
They do sometimes litter, throw up in the sidewalk after drinking, and don't wash their hands after using the train station bathrooms.
I mean, Tokyo isn't even that clean. I was just there and saw a rat on the sidewalk every night. They're like NYC and just leave commercial trash bags on the sidewalk instead of using trash bins. (Also frequently saw aggressive "no dumping" signs on the pile of trash bags. Not very high trust!)
I think by individualism what people usually mean is the general "me, I got mine" attitude & the idealization of not giving a care to what other people think, i.e. "do your thing". I lot of what happens in the East Asian countries from peer pressure/accountability is to be actively defied in the West, and particularly in America. Keeping things clean because otherwise you might get judged by someone else is almost an incentive to litter.
> They're like NYC and just leave commercial trash bags on the sidewalk instead of using trash bins.
You might have mistaken it with the organised rubbish collection. It is common in New Zealand where business owners pack up rubbish at the close of business in dedicated, pre-paid rubbish bags that they leave in the front of the shop. A garbage truck comes by later and quickly collects rubbish. The cost of the service is included in the price of the rubbish bag, and the garbage truck won't collect a random or unrecognised bag but people do not do that.
It also seems cleaner as rubbish bins require cleaning on a regular basis, and the bags do not.
They only have to be consistently better than the competition, and they are, by far. I always look for reviews before buying anything, and even then I've been nothing but disappointed by the likes of Razer, LG, Samsung, etc.
It's like that kid that got expelled for creating a map of his school in Counter-Strike [1], due to fears of security threats. Not that I blame them, I could see people planning a robbery in Minecraft.
YouTube had video replies ages ago and it didn't take off.
The trouble with audio is the barrier of entry. By the time you've wrote your script and managed to record it and edit it you might as well have made a video.
As I remember it, the problem with video replies wasn't that they didn't take off, it's that they were mostly dominated by busty women making fairly low-effort content but whose thumbnails nonetheless drew clicks.
It isn't. However, there was no release note, it changed late in the beta cycle, and there's no plan to revert.
As of right now, if this isn't adjusted to solve going forward rather than disrupting current applications, I don't have the confidence to upgrade to iOS 18 in a way that I have been confident of earlier releases.
