I agree that the pricing doesn’t make sense unless you can split it, which is what I do.

Premium is $25 in Canada. You can add 5 people to your plan. That makes it $5 per month for each of us.

Personally I don’t buy cable or satellite TV, so I get most of my enjoyment from YouTube. So to me $5 per month is nothing, especially if you have something like Spotify which you can cancel and use YouTube Music, which is included in that $5.

If you have no friends and you’re the only one footing the bill, I agree that the pricing is a lot. At that point you just have to deal with the annoying ads.

I hate ads as much as anyone, but my question still remains for anyone who demands on blocking all ads and refusing to pay for premium, how do you expect servers and creators to be paid?

I know Google can technically afford it, but that’s not how businesses are run. You can’t take profits from one department to make up for the losses in another department, and as we know bandwidth is extremely expensive, and Google hosts an unbelievable amount of data, and free, too.

Like I’ve mentioned in the past, I have a bunch of videos uploaded to YouTube to share with family, and they are all private. Therefore Google is paying to store my videos, while making $0 from them, as they are not public and making any ad revenue.

I also know that Google is bad. Corporations suck. All that jazz. I just don’t understand why most of Lemmy users think everything should be free, but when asked about how these things are supposed to get funded, they go silent.

Lemmy itself won’t be around long if users refuse to donate to their instance, and refuse to view ads. Even if someone is hosting an instance in their basement, the cost of internet, replacement drives, maintenance, and electricity all add up.

Bro, it’s so fucking frustrating that I need to be subbed to 5 different Android communities just to get my news.

I can’t sub to just one because I miss news if I do.

My only hope is that Boost brings multi-reddit support to Lemmy, so I can just click on “Android” and get the news from all 5 Android communities.

It’s also the toxic community.

I was called a racist and holocaust denier because I asked someone how they expect YouTube servers to be paid for if you refuse to pay for premium, and don’t want to watch ads.

My comments were downvoted like crazy, and the person who called me a racist holocaust denier was upvoted…

Again, all because I asked a question about how servers should be paid for. What the actual fuck? Reddit is insanely toxic, but Lemmy takes the cake.

Canada doesn’t even give people on disability enough to afford rent, let alone groceries, power bills, car insurance, etc.

Maybe start there. Help the disabled survive.

I don’t? Are you assuming because I clicked a random post I saw on the active tab that I run pirated Windows?

Ya! And then just quit my job, since none of it runs on Linux.

Oh not even that. Back when I used Tinder in 2019, and you were a guy, you pretty much had to buy Tinder gold or whatever it was.

Tinder limit your swipes, intentionally showed you dead profiles, and some other shit I forget.

Same with older people. If you’re older, Tinder costs more.

Tinder is a predatory app. They benefit from you NOT finding a match.

Good for you

Ya, because I totally get stabbed by used needles and homeless people in the boonies…

No one wants to be downtown in any city. That’s where all of the trouble is, drug addicts, homeless, crime…

I avoid downtown at all costs in all of the cities near me.

For a domain using the TLD “world”, and then defaulting to US news, is pretty annoying.

Why not put US in the title?

You’re ignorant if you think everyone’s disability is the same.

I had a double lung transplant. My lungs were so bad, I couldn’t even walk to the bathroom. An e-bike allowed me to get out and be independent.

But I guess since your pain was tolerable you think all disabled people can pedal a bike? Ignorant.

It’s not as easy as people complaining, though. What are people going to do? Move to a city in 2500KM away in the next province over, because that province has slightly better infrastructure?

No, they’ll complain, nothing will be done, and they’ll stay where they are because they have friends, family, and a job here.

I understand that it’s easier to do in a lot of European countries, but I can literally drive for over 25 straight hours, and still be in my province in Canada. It’s nearly impossible to do any kind of proper public transit, and it’s not feasible to move over it.

eBikes allow older folks and disabled folks to get out.

You guys are truly insufferable. You hate on cars, but then hate on people who rely on eBikes.

I guess we should stop making electronic wheelchairs, too. Quadriplegics should just sit and die.

Imagine if people understood that not everyone lives where they can ride a bike or take public transit.

Stop blaming people for being born into a country that essentially requires cars.

You live in a place designed around cars, that’s the problem.

Exactly. Then Europeans downvote people who say they need a car, because their country/city/state/whatever has terrible planning or public transit.

Not my fault I need a car. Stop blaming me. I didn’t design the city. I didn’t plan where the public transit will go.

Do you really think I love paying $1200+ per year for insurance, $120+ per week for fuel, and $20,000-80,000 for a new vehicle when mine borks itself?

“I know people who got the vaccine and died right after”

Ok. And I know 1,000,000x more people that didn’t get the vaccine and died from COVID. Even if they died from the vaccine (they didn’t), the vaccine is safer.

If the government wanted to kill people, they’d kill those who refused to comply.

So the thing that would make more sense, is that the COVID vaccine was an antidote, and the government was going to release a toxic gas to kill everyone who didn’t take it.

But nah, their argument is that the government is killing those who comply. Ya, because that makes sense.

When it works, it’s great. But no matter how much you spend, which brands you go with, how you have it set it, eventually something is going to fuck up, and you’ll spend half your day fixing it all.

Proof? Has never happened to me. Your ass must hurt from pulling that out of it.