They completely enshittified Meetup with all sorts of absurd monetization schemes, Vimeo will likely go to hell as well.

I appreciate its integrity somewhat (at least it's not meetup.com that is on its last legs due to ruthless enshittification and monetization) but honestly the site has changed too little and allowed FB Marketplace to basically grab its entire marketshare. Locally for electronics it's just the same guy relisting his collection of odd junk like a 2000s-era flatbed scanner, even for nearby large metros it feels kind of barren, nowhere near the same number of listers like 10 years ago.

They know they are not winning over the younger generations so they are looking to milk their existing audience as much as possible. These AI bots are going to be used to 'entertain' and retain our dementia-ridden elders long after everyone has given up on Facebook as a social media platform. Even modern-day AOL will look more like an honest service in comparison.

Opening up Facebook uses 600MB and it's not stopping there.

The first gmail account I ever created during the invitation-only period was frankjr@gmail.com. Not even google's spam filters can filter out the sheer amount of garbage that gets sent to it. People assume it exists and it gets spammed to. Had to switch over to something people wouldn't automatically assume exists and only ever peep into that account once every couple of years.

From what I gather, much of the initial usage was from Instagram influencers trying to find new ways to boost their own posts back on Instagram. I guess that didn't work out so they are predictably going to stop using it.

Prime Video never drew me in because of the limited selection and everything being an upsell. Dropped Prime and while I don't get two-day shipping anymore I was basically just paying them for the privilege of spending even more money with them. Harder to impulse buy when it's going to be a week or more before you get it.

Hrm, most men in my age group (35-40) and even a couple of women I know build or have built their own systems before. Everyone I know who plays games on the PC has built one. We're not the majority, but most of the marketing seems to be aimed at us and while I couldn't verify it one statistic shows 19% of the PC gaming market in 2019 is custom built machines.

They are not friends of the free software world, but enemies. If they actually cared about Linux they would not be continually keeping us out of the Blu-ray world completely by their insane DRM schemes. The only reason Sony ever cared about putting user-programmable (and somewhat to highly crippled, I might add) parts on their consoles is to get tax benefits in Europe for selling a 'computer' and not a 'gaming device,' of which the European countries did not find to be a convincing line of argument. As for me, I won't be supporting a company whose policies help keep Linux crippled and out of the mainstream.

Forgot about the event. Oh well.