Yeah they keep changing the structure of the plan. Music used to be a separate package I think? That was years ago.

I wouldn’t call it fluff though :P I (initially) got it specifically for the music, and that’s what gets the most use from my family :) I guess that doesn’t make it any less fluff for you though. I agree that it should be a separate package.

This price increase sucks though.

Yes it does :\ Lucky for us it doesn’t seem to affect the family package. They raised the price on that last year.

Here’s hoping they don’t raise the price of that plan too.

Yeah, I can’t disagree honestly. The Disney+/Hulu/ESPN ad free bundle is like $20/month usd.

You probably can, but I’m lazy ;) I like it. Got the family one so everybody in my house can use it. We listen to a LOT of music on youtube music in my house, and a few of the others like watching cooking shows and silly junk on youtube. There’s some pretty decent content. You can get by with ad blockers and stuff, but since I use the music app in my car and at work I prefer not to deal with all that.

For most people, there’s probably not much reason to pay for it.

Edit: Not happy with the constant price hikes though. It seems like the bump the price by a little every year or two.

What would the singular bee?

As with most things, there’s trade offs. From a usability stand point, it’s a pain. I try to keep the amount of accounts I have to a minimum. They’re easy to lose track of, hard to keep them secure when I don’t remember how many accounts I have out there (I don’t have many accounts, so keeping track is easy right now), can’t always account for the security of the platform, end up reusing similar or same passwords and user names a lot, etc… Yeah I can work around all of that, but that’s part of the problem… I’m also lazy :)

The part that I think would be most annoying is just knowing which servers got defederated at any given time, creating new accounts, shuffling subscriptions. Luckily it doesn’t look like it forgot what I was subscribed too, so I just had to make a new account and then re-subscribe to everything. But if this grew to the size of reddit, it’s almost nightmare material thinking about the drama between communities and constantly reshuffling. Bleh.

I mean I’m fine with it, not trying to complain here :) Just some things I’m worried about is all.

Ah I see. Those are solid reasons, I don’t blame them for defederating. Still kinda sucks, I was worried about this being a problem. Having multiple accounts and re-managing subscriptions each time it happens is going to be a nightmare without any centralization. I wonder if it’s going to be a barrier for less tech savvy users. I suppose these types of problems can be solved over time.

Why is lemmy.world having a lot of active communities unfortunate? I’m a bit new here. Is there already drama between communities? Or some other reason, like slow servers or something?

Edit: Just saw that it’s defederated. Any reason? I was worried about this being a thing, having to subscribe to other communities and shuffle subscriptions. What a pain. Hope it doesn’t happen often.