Aside from inflation and limited benefit of upgrading, subscriptions for every little thing are depleting discretionary income.
This is another example of the Knowledge vs Belief problem - where people who hold something as a belief will hold more strongly to their view in the face of contradictory evidence.
He’s a Senator - his district is the whole state.
Not that this negates anything you said, just clarifying.
Agree. As for the history, wagons were popular in the 70s, but the minivan really took off in the 80s. This led to a perception that Minivans weren’t masculine, so there was a big boom in SUVs which had the volume and utility of a Minivan, but were more manly.
There shouldn't be any difference between apps on the same instance. Are you sure you are always using the same login on the same server?
The only other possibility is that the app has the instance hard coded somewhere or accessing remote instances directly, but that seems unlikely - it would cause all kinds of problems because URLs aren't portable.
My suggestion when troubleshooting would be to compare what is showing up on the login instance and the app. If those are different, then there is an app bug. If there is a difference between the login instance and the host instance, that's a federation issue. Comparing the app to the host instance (instead of the login instance) isn't helpful to the app developer. The app shouldn't know the host instance even exists.
It looks like federation issues. Lemmy.world is under semi-constant DDOS attacks, and between that and the mitigations that LW are putting in place, the entire instance is not reliable.
In general, I think communities (or groups of related communities) should maintain their own instances to protect from some of the issues prominent with user-focused instances.
Seems to me that your mistake is that you believe the purpose of polls is to predict an outcome, and/or tell you who is “winning” or “losing” at a given point in time. That is not their purpose.
Their purpose is to gauge the relative effectiveness of different campaign messaging strategies, and to give a rough order of magnitude of a campaign’s trajectory.
Here’s the most important part: polls contain no actionable data for voters. They shouldn’t influence whether or how much you volunteer or donate, and they absolutely must not influence how you vote.
Go into embedded software. You can’t do ads if there is no UI taps head.
They already are, by monetizing the content they didn’t create, and paying creators just a fraction of the revenue generated.
Yeah, great. Give me my damn home office deduction back.
No, it isn't an MVNO, but I do think it gets lower priority than their premium plans.
To cats, all things are a cat bed, prey, or both.