Hey @stux why are you blocking Threads? Just curious. I was hoping to one day combine the two communities I have, here. Splitting platforms is too hard and the Fediverse has promise that we do not have to be tied to these corporations
Decades ago, I never would have guessed I would be buying vinyl in 2023. I ditched vinyl / tapes for CDs and later ditched those after buying the first iPod.
I enjoy the convenience of digital music but I missed the high fidelity of hard media and the experience of an album as a work of art, including the physicality of the object.
I went all in on digital music and ripped all my CDs to high quality files. Many of these rarities are not streamable because of rights issues etc. I also spent a lot buying tracks in the early iTunes days.
@siracusa@caseyliss@marcoarment My wife keeps her laptops for 4 or more years and the keyboards end up letterless. I assumed it was her long fingernails or the sheer amount of typing (a writer). I have sometimes seen a bit of wear on the most-used keys after a couple of years but I upgrade more often. I am curious if there are gender differences in this phenomenon.
@Gargron@Jonathanglick Hi guys, the head of our audience team is @Annadubenko and @jakegrovum is her deputy for external platforms. I know they are observing all the so-called Twitter "alternatives" -- and I realize that is not quite the way to think of Mastodon, which is its own thing. There are also resource implications for anything we do. [Personally, I've encountered a lot of resistance here to our subscription business model.]
Mastodon is the only site where a user is guaranteed to gripe about a paywalled article every time. Folks, ads are dead. Subscriptions pay for the journalism and feed our families. A trial sub is cheap. I give away a lot of free links. You can read many with an email (regi-wall is not a paywall). It is easy to get around with research. You do you. Just don’t reply with a complaint or a paywall evasion. It’s kind of rude. I may block you. Move on. Read something else. It’s a big old internet.