If anything, I think LJ missed a trick by not having the option of doing a double subscription (so £3.99), and saying the extra £2 gets split between the instances, weighted by the time you spend time on them.

I think I might have felt differently at a stage of my life where I didn’t have nearly as much disposable income as I do now.

Over the past few years, I’ve adopted the attitude of trying my hardest to pay for the things that I would be genuinely disappointed if they went away.

I have system-wide ad block, so the $20 or whatever for Sync actually bought me nothing other than the knowledge that if LJ decides to pack up Sync and go and work for a FAANG instead, I don’t need to feel guilty.

This attitude would be unrecognisable to my younger self.

not wanting to pay a subscription fee

It’s a one-time $20. It’s literally in the meme were both commenting on.

Maybe wherever you live. In first world countries, it’s fairly straightforward.

Thank god we’ve got people like you to incessantly whine about it and show how little they care by commenting about how they don’t care.

Not at all more obnoxious than the original post.

Ah, so it’s, like, a brutalist, function over form preference?

From your perspective - yes, exactly that and I think that’s probably the best way you can understand it.

From my perspective, the old.reddit.com UI (with RES) is possibly the most beautifully designed web page I’ve ever encountered. I certainly couldn’t have used it almost daily for the past 12 years if that wasn’t the case.

I can focus on content much better when the UI is breathing. And I prefer clients that have images already expanded, to save me the clicks.

I can understand and respect that while thinking you’re insane. If I had to guess, your formative experience with technology was via touch screens and I think that would go a long way to explaining your preferences.

For me, post uniformity is important. It feels like I’m in control of the experience and I’m browsing rather than having things shoved in my face. I have Imagus installed so I only need to hover over a link to see the picture and so I can just look at the pictures I’m interested in - one at a time.

Full disclosure - my earliest experiences in the Internet were bulletin boards and that probably had a formative part in my preferences. I’m also probably undiagnosed something.

Information density and minimal whitespace. Can’t stand this trend of only using the middle third of the screen.

Not working for me.

In that you know to avoid the weirdo in the corner wearing a “Ask me why I know morse code” t-shirt at the party?

Tl;dr Italy invented the pizza but the US invented the pizzeria.

Pretending you’re blind and deaf to popular culture (to the extent where you claim to have never heard of one of the best-selling artists of all time) is an order of magnitude more cringe and obnoxious than people who obsess over celebrities.

…yes. That’s exactly what they’re saying. Obviously.

How could they possibly give you a price without knowing anything about your business or the problems you want them to solve?

Also, even if they’re stupid enough to put up their tariff card for how much a Director/Manager/Associate billable hour is, they’re just going to get annoying questions about “Why does a manager need to do this rather than an associate?” as well as the “We think this will take you 7 hours - why are you quoting for 8?”.

What do you mean “what happens”?

Either the CVR and FDR survive or they don’t and the final report is written without them. Neither are indestructible and they fail or are unrecoverable in a fraction of cases.

Opening up a new subreddit in the past few years had like a 50% chance of having 4 out of the top 10 posts people obnoxiously whining about X: “Please can we stop posting about X”,“Will the mods please start removing X posts?”, “If something doesn’t change soon, I’m going to start a new subreddit and the first rule will be ‘No X’”.

Meanwhile there are zero posts about X in sight.

Really appreciate the response - thank you.

I just had a handful of domains tick over renewal on Google Domains in the past week, so I suppose I’ll have some time to see what Squarespace is like from an administration perspective before I end up having to commit to renewing with them.

In what way?

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

It even takes less of a cut than Patreon too.

Any reason you’re not just sticking with Squarespace?

I have been thinking this over the past week on reddit every time I see a “Lemmy/Kbin needs to sort out X, Y and Z otherwise it’s going to fail massively.” or “Lemmy/Kbin is impossibly hard to use/sign up for”. Usually with CAPITAL LETTERS and emojis.

Like… ok. I don’t think you’ll be missed with that attitude. At least for the time being.