You’re not alone.

On a good large screen, 1080p is a noticeable upgrade from 720p.
But the distance you’d have to sit at, to get much out of 2160p over 1080p, is just way too close.
However the High Dynamic Range that comes with 4K formats and releases IS a big difference.

On the other hand, storage is pretty cheep. A couple cents per GB really.
But you’re talking more about bandwidth, which can be expensive.

But yeah. You’re not alone.

That was the original idea behind Hulu.
But Netflix had a much better UX and ate their lunch.

The filters and music are certainly doable.
I’m not sure the endless scrolling is something that should be emulated.

Gratis versus libre

I was an avid Usenet user, until torrents were invented.
I’ve never needed to go back.

When they start getting lawyers involved. That’s how you know when it genuinely leaked, and wasn’t part of the publicity plan.

My bookmark goes directly to the subscription page. I never see the home page algorithm

It’s only mostly broken. And mostly broken means slightly working!

Can you curb your sensitivity?
You used the wrong word. Maybe you didn’t know. That’s fine. We all do it occasionally. No harm.
Now that you know better, you could simply show some grace and humility by saying “Thank you”. Then everyone could move on.

Have a good one

Lemmy has it (or did) already. Some instances use it, many don’t.

Actual pirate ships were very democratic generally. When splitting the bounty, everyone got an equal share. Maybe 2 shares for the navigator and 1.5 for the captain. But that’s it.

So while they didn’t care much for non-pirates, they certainly treated each other fairly.

Nearly all the rules members need to follow (which can vary from one tracker to another) are about seeding enough. That’s the main universal thing. Not allowing people to “Hit and Run”. For a member to do that, it typically takes dedicating some substantial drive space and seed time. Far more than most people are willing/able to dedicate. This allows the tracker to curate a large library of high quality material. That’s the primary ideology.

Secondary to that, it has the added benefit of making sure everyone involved is “cool”. Cool as in, not a nark who’s going to get people sued and the site shut down. That used to be a big issue. I don’t know if it is now. I’m kind of out of touch with public torrent sites.

As to why we’re insufferable elitists? What do you want me to say? Rulers’ gonna rule.

It also downloads from Tidal

New things can and should be built.
New things.

Taking something that’s currently good at what it does, and changing it to do something substantially new doesn’t work.

Google would have been better off, if they created a new service to emulate TickTock rather than shoehorn TickTock videos into YouTube.

They created Inbox to try to redesign email, rather than mess with how Gmail worked. That was absolutely the right way to do it.

That’s what your talking about here. Rather than adapt Lemmy to your new idea. Create an entirely new system expressly designed for it. That would really be making something new.

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I don’t know why some people seem to frequently want something to be something else.
When one service tries to incorporate multiple (and very different) modes of interactions, it always suffers.

Lemmy isn’t a chat room. If you want a live discussion you go to Discord or Matrix. Lemmy isn’t that. It shouldn’t be that. I remember when the Lemmy feed would constantly update. Even when It was working properly, it was extremely annoying. Lets let Lemmy be Lemmy. And if you want to engage with people in a different way, go to a service that was designed for it. Specialization is a good thing.

As I said, I agree with the literal facts. The implications in your phrasing I disagree with.

Instead of unfounded, I would call it unproven.
Instead of scaremongering I would say warning.
And generally I avoid using absolute terms like “all”, since only it takes one counter example, to make such a statement factually wrong.

Yes! That is most literally true!

People doubt the face value benign intension of Meta with regard to the Fediverse.

Which leaves uncertainty of their real intention.

Naturally causing fear of a self interested malicious intention.

Which all seem to be quite reasonable concerns, given Meta’s market position and history.

That’s not always a good thing. If it was meant to be 4:3 the extra space on the frame can have set rigging, lights, microphone booms, and in case of stunts even crash pads.

It’s one of the reasons the HD rescan of Buffy:TVS sucks. That still needs a proper 4:3 HD remaster.

I’m pretty sure all user data is public already.
PMs might be the only thing not everyone can see.