Readit NewsPeople don't buy sports cars, or extremely expensive clothing because it's functional. But rather to project their above the plebs.
Games have skins or icons marking how high up you are. Most importantly, very expensive skins.
Honestly, discords isn't bad, you're not constrained by being a free user. In fact, we should thank the nitro users cause they keep discord free for us.
Clothing with the modifier “extremely” probably makes sense though.
Love the features, but feels shady to me still. The API pricing thing does suck, but at this point I’m not willing to throw any money at them.
txti @txties 28. März 2020: "Txti is currently down because some folks can’t follow rules and have created phishing or other malicious pages."
<https://twitter.com/txties/status/1243879222206246912>
The "rules" may relate to txti Terms of Service found <http://txti.es/terms>
> Yancey's Dark Forest theory of the web. The “dark forest” is a place that seems eerily quiet and devoid of life. All the living creatures within it are hiding. Because “night is when the predators come out. To survive, the animals stay silent.”
> The predators here are the advertisers, tracking bots, clickbait creators, attention-hungry influencers, reply guys, and trolls. It's unsafe to reveal yourself to them in any authentic way. So we retreat into private spaces. We hide in the cozy web.
The thread he changed the comments in was filled with users literally accusing multiple innocent people of being pedophiles who ate children, but sure, it's a bridge too far to change the user tag of comments literally threatening him rather than e.g. banning everyone who commented there or reporting the threats to the police which would have been well within his rights!