The distinction between projected and guaranteed is irrelevant when you’re projected to make a billion dollars. The Barbie IP, paired with the cast and crew, was an absolute juggernaut from the beginning.

You’re correct in that everything ultimately stems from capitalism, but in this particular instance, certain producers could have made less greedy decisions and the film would have been better for it.

That’s what this discussion is supposed to be about. You’re kind of talking past OP.

You can transfer your subscriptions using this tool, but your posts and comments obviously can’t be transferred.

https://github.com/wescode/lemmy_migrate

At least that’s what I’ve been told, I haven’t used it myself.

Lovely. What city?

Oof that’s brutal. Didn’t realize it was that bad.

There’s a lot of small instances wanting to become medium/big instances and share the load, but people need to show a bit of initiative and join them. I just made this account, and here’s a list of a few other small servers with room to spare. YMMV but these all look pretty solid at a glance.

discuss.online

lemmy.fmhy.net

lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz

lemmy.tf

thelemmy.club

lemmy.myserv.one

Not sure why they’re not hyperlinked but you can copy paste 🤷