Yeah, I'm holding on to the lifetime grandfathered premium and don't foresee myself using anything else until they end it.

I stopped paying for YouTube the moment Google killed Google Play Music and forced YouTube Music on me. Now Google gets no money from me and Apple does because they still offer a true music library service.

Google Photos nags me to let it clean them up and I usually let it 🤷

I literally almost never pay fees when moving Bitcoin between wallets on the Blockchain. Fees aren't required unless you want your transaction expedited.

You bring up good points about it being potentially useful for facilitating the movement of money across borders (and potentially doing so more anonymously now) within the PayPal ecosystem with fewer fees, but it's an unnecessary step for pretty much anything else within PayPal as far as I'm concerned. It's also definitely a bad place to park money long term unless you like inflation eating away at your buying power.

I'm not sure what you mean about high fees with Bitcoin, though, are you talking about exchange fees from fiat to Bitcoin and vice versa? I rarely pay any fees simply moving Bitcoin around.

That was my immediate thought as well. Like they have fogging glass, but nasty ass toilets with optional toilet seat?

I think maybe you are confusing instances with communities? Instances are the servers you sign up your account on like lemmy.world or lemmy.ml whereas communities like asklemmy are hosted on an instance. I think there's universal agreement that growing communities is generally a good thing because it leads to more content and discussion. Growing instances on the other hand isn't super important (indeed there are going to be plenty of people like myself that are going to stick with a single user personal instance and be perfectly happy). I think the person you're replying to was confused by the wording of your post.

I don't think I've ever been this excited for an app release. Great work!

I know this is a joke, but it does allow for /me commands, so this is certainly possible in a client. The macro does not appear to be available in Element, however.

Afaik, that isn't in effect yet, but will become a major factor next year.

You're probably good, then 👍

I was more disappointed the article author didn't think to call out that fact.