MattDemers

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by MattDemers 4y ago
I meant more that the strategies used by companies to interact with say, Kpop or Marvel fans, have bled into other environments. Also, the way that those kind of fandoms act, or the things they do in order to provide marketing for their par
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by MattDemers 4y ago
You make a good point. I guess it feels that the manga-to-anime pipeline feels more about straight adaptation, while the comic-to-MCU pipeline is much more about picking over a buffet of characters, beats, "things you know", etc t
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I've failed at "creating content as a side gig" multiple times over the course of my career, and I'm working on providing more structure in my life so I can give it another go. Over the last little bit I've been get
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by MattDemers 4y ago
It also helps that it is extremely rare to see a manga have a rotating creative team, so you get a much more consistent story and tone, the whole way through. Having a creator come onto an American comic with a specific enthusiasm for one s
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I remember how exciting it was to be in my college dorm and having people be like "Man, this new browser is amazing!" It's kind of surreal because I'm not sure desktop software really does that anymore; maybe apps, but t
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Ask HN: How do you get over charging for a product?
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Adorable. Save that in case she ever gets married.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
You end up having a cyclical problem, though: No one uses it because no one posts > No one posts because they don't expect interaction > No one expects interaction because no one uses it And then brands or influencers don't
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by MattDemers 4y ago
"In order to be loved, I must be me, plus something else." Like if you're hosting a party, it's easy to obsess about there being enough entertainment, food, booze, etc, far beyond what's actually needed.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Canadians loved Rdio, trust me.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
It depends what the "primary" place is. If poeple go to Patreon to receive a product, and Discord is a sidebar to that, then yeah, keep it to Patreon. If a Discord community is funded with a Patreon, this can be a replacement.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I mostly dislike how this is adding nothing new to Discord syncing subscriber status from Twitch or Patreon; doing that assigned the subscriber who connected their accounts a role, which could then be used for permissions to access content.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Rentry and Txti.es have similar issues. Love those sites for giving me markdown-friendly alternatives to Pastebin for writing FAQs and guides and stuff, but man I cannot imagine what their spam/moderation is like.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I mean, that just introduces another level of crap as sites clamour to be on the "not garbage" list; it'll end up like the issues Twitter has/had with verification.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
It's surprising how often I'm just adding "site:reddit.com" to get some semblance of a human answer to questions.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Just to add, Freetube has support for comments, timestamp segments, and other things that goes beyond RSS.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I love Freetube, and try to contribute to people directly if I'm going to use Freetube. It'll truly become killer when I can save multiple playlists, like I can on Newpipe. Sadly right now you're stuck with one playlist of &q
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Unfortunately, this style of writing makes the article perform better on Twitter and Reddit (where it benefits to wrangle the scared or passionate) or aggregates like HackerNews, where people get to tear it apart. Your choice is this, or SE
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by MattDemers 4y ago
I don't have Venmo in my country, but I think they mean sending a micro-invoice using Venmo to say "Hey, pay for the salsa you ate that I ordered for the table." > "Folks who grew up in affluent households will venmo
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Apple does this with email forwarding aliases on your phone; I can sign up using a generated Apple relay, which then pushes to your main email. I don't like it that much, mostly because you're still kind of locking into the Apple
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Garbage. I'm looking for marketing/communications/social media work. Those industries aren't really hiring right now, and despite changing/improving my resume/cover letter three times now (with help from a hiri
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Advocating for this is the equivalent of going "Yeah man, it's not a big deal that you don't 'own' those movies/games/books on a digital service, and a company can decide to rescind them without refund if
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by MattDemers 4y ago
This is going to be like farmers voiding their tractors' warranties in order to get free software updates from some CIS country jailbreaker, isn't it?
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Yeah definitely; the "+" alias is built in to most emails (like, it works on Google/Proton at least). I'm more just saying that if you pay for ProtonMail (and therefore care about privacy more than the average person) yo
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Isn't it great that nothing can make our lives easier unless we're giving up proportionally more in data, privacy, or liberty?
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by MattDemers 4y ago
Why is this written like an SEO farm blog post?
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by MattDemers 4y ago
>Some extras: use unique email addresses per site if you can. Some setups allow infinite aliases. Then you can blackhole one that gets leaked, and you can know where it got leaked from. If you pay for ProtonMail, you get a SimpleLogin Pr
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by MattDemers 4y ago
> Either that or pay for them to attend remedial journalism school. You're assuming that journalism school is teaching things that are preventing this from happening.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
The shareholders must be satified. The amount of satisfaction can never reach an upper limit, so everything is on the table in the name of infinite scaling.
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by MattDemers 4y ago
The ones that have from mine are just using their accounts to complaining about Twitter. Which doesn't create sustainable communities on Mastodon instances that survive this kind of spike in activity.

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