Absolutely–especially if it helps to offset server costs. I’ve donated before for that.

Curious what you’d think of a sort of roped off, “free to enter” entry community/instance that would be akin to a shallow pool. Just enough so you understand how it works and see what it would be like, but everything else would have that pay-for barrier. You’re right that there’s a good benefit to putting a wall up but at the same time we’re still small enough that actively discouraging people from joining might not* be wise. I absolutely have turned my nose up to websites and servers that have some kind of pretty splash page and then a “Okay pay to get in!” message. I don’t even know what I’m paying for.

I agree.

I’ve been enjoying Tidal after switching.

Is anyone else completely unable to register on chexsystems? Usually when this happens I can’t tell if it’s because of my privacy settings or a legitimate fuckup on the server’s end.

It’s holding its tail down!

My husband would love this, so I’d happily buy one as a christmas or birthday gift.

Cute! I bought my husband the bonsai tree one and he loves it.

Hey thanks for posting this–both the original post and your own anecdote. I think personal hygiene is something that should be more comfortably chatted about. It’s weird cause most people are like “ew TMI” and yeah it can wind up in that space, but at the same time, I think there’s a lot of stuff people are lacking in knowledge in just cause it’s kind of embarrassing to talk about!

Anyway I think I also had this in my early 20s; at least I hope so. I remember scrubbing harder and harder under my pits and one day seeing something slough off and until recently I’ve always assumed I killed a bunch of skin and it all came off. But given the symptoms I had been having at the time, I think this might have been it.

I hadn’t heard of this before, interesting. Here’s the link to wiki if anyone else is interested in learning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

It feels different, but you’re right, I don’t have any proof that anything’s worse than normal. It’s just kind of depressing to see. I feel bad for the OPs who aren’t doing anything wrong.

I don’t have premium anymore, but back when I did, I got it to better support the channels I watched since I believe they got more revenue from the views of subscribers than people watching the ads.

What kills me, and it doesn’t happen often but I’ve seen it, is when they can detect the burner card as a ‘prepaid’ (Privacy particularly) and are like “Sorry we don’t allow prepaid cards. Credit or debit only!”