I fell for Parship. Forgot to cancel after family pushed me to subscribe just for a year.
When I started, I didn't know what a match unlock was. On Tinder, if you match, you get to chat. On Parship you have to UNLOCK the match first, and you only have a limited amount of unlocks before you have to buy more. So the app that claims to be designed to pair you up makes you HESITANT to actually talk to anyone! It's like power-up potions in video games!
We all know they're evil and predatory, but the extent is worse than you think.
Pretty crazy there's no PKI in place to verify photos, videos, or text. We just need apps to verify signatures and tell users about the origin. Memes can remain unsigned, but veritable information should always be traceable to a source.
E.g. I'm more inclined to believe a video sourced by AP (sent to me by whomever) than one posted by the white house twitter without signature.
There was a post here yesterday about a matrix frontend that looks like discord called cannonball. im'a try to get my cousin and his Minecraft friends on that.
My 5yo Pixel 6 inflated just last Friday. I panic-ordered a Pixel 9a, but since Google didn't fulfill my supplier's shipment, I cancelled and switched to a Fairphone today. It'll arrive tomorrow. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fifty years ago people weren't expected to live in libraries, either. This is unnatural pressure we put on ourselves and we can just stop it.