Lemmy being used as a source now

rbits@lemm.ee to Fediverse@lemmy.world – 702 points –

From latest GameLinked episode (Linus Tech Tips gaming news channel)

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Here's a link to the video.

I see this as a small victory for the Fediverse.

There’s definitely an LTT writer that’s active here.

The only thing Lemmy doesn’t have that Reddit does have is the immense history of quality content. This will only get better in time.

It's also missing IMO some mass to discuss more specific topics. For example, there's enough people to discuss "anime" or "games", but too few to discuss a specific anime series, or a specific game.

That'll get better in time too, I believe.

Yeah, true. I still jump to Reddit to view tv show discussions, just won’t log in or comment anymore.

It's happening!

"Stay cool, stay cool!"

"Smile and wave boys, just smile and wave."

Soon BuzzFeed will be stealing content from Lemmy

You won't believe our top five Star Trek and Linux memes of the week!

Blocked all meme subs... this place has enough content without filler now imho

Blocked all meme subs

I guess that works... I just never subscribed to them in the first place. Either way, I'm super happy to see more activity on the platform.

You have done well, Lemmy. Keep going, and become greater than the corporate-overlord media.

I'm convinced someone on LTT's team is on Lemmy. Two weeks ago one of their quickbits had a title "u/spez endorses lemmy".

You left your SI in the link

What is an si (I presume session id)?

And where do look, if there is a standard for these thingies?

I understand that these are query strings, but who decides which keys are there and what they mean? And if they depend completely on the server's implementation, then how do you know what the "si" key means, except from experience?

Thanks in advance.

It's an individual tracking code that tells Google who generated the youtube link you click on. That way, they can see who you're talking with on other websites.

I went, "Ooh! That's some ingenuity!" and , both at the same time.

Wasting the ingenuity for this stuff.

I wish reddit a very merry "Going the way of Myspace and Ebaumsworld"

Reddit is probably too big to completely disappear but if they keep isolating themselves from the rest of the internet they could easily lose mainstream appeal and end up more like a SomethingAwful

Well, they are definitely something that is awful.

You know how people will repost screenshots of tweets or whatever? The other day I saw a screenshot of a Mastodon post on Instagram.

I'm worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

When I use a website as a source, at the time that I access it for information, I will also save a snapshot of it in the Wayback Machine. Ofc theres no guarantee that the Internet Archive will be able to survive, but the likelihood of that is probably far greater than some random website. So, if the link dies, one can still see it in the Wayback Machine. This also has the added benefit of locking in time what the source looked like when it was accessed (assuming one timestamps when they access the source when they cite it).

That's unfortunately just how the internet is/works. It's all links and links to each other. Check out https://archive.is and https://archive.ph - Maybe we can build a decentralized archive thing based on IPFS or something

I already don't own an xbox and am happy about it. Checkmate, MS.

Why does it have to be LMG of all places to use lemmy. Linus is not the cool tech guy anymore, he's just another corpa boss who prefers profits over people and accuracy.

LMG has a long history of overworking its workers, plus reports of sexual harassment and bullying...

He belongs with spez and all other profit shitheads the fediverse is supposed to be free of.

My favorite linus quote (when asked why he didn't properly test a product for a video):

I don't know if I can apologize for not spending another $500 of various people's time.

Didn't he step down as boss after the latest kerfuffle because he just doesn't make for a good boss.

Those reports were both unsubstantiated by a 3rd party audit. Linus does not prefer profits over accuracy, when they received backlash for being inaccurate and rushing out videos they took a week off and reworked their system and have stuck to it. Gamers Nexus The people who predominantly called them out have done, and are doing the same things as LTT.

When their book bag carabiners were breaking they didn't say "oh well", and they shipped out replacement parts and gave them a $25. If they still weren't happy they got a full refund. This does not sound like "corpa boss" to me. Now I can't tell the future, but right now LTT is just fine.

Somebody wanna fill me in on the don't kill games thing? I've heard it mentioned 3 times now over the course of a week or two so I figure maybe it's something noteworthy.

It's an initiative to stop game companies (EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard etc) from being able to decide if you can play a video game that you've bought. The example used is for the video game "The Crew" which was an online-only racing game. After the servers were shutdown by Ubisoft, the game that many people bought became unplayable.

What StopKillingGames wants, is that any company that publishes / develop games provide a way for people who own the game to continue playing it indefinitely. This would most likely come in the form of a game server that could be run by any owner of the game, and shouldn't be a requirement that publishers / developers run the servers forever as that would be unsustainable.

did LTT ever actually fix that issue where they stole somebody's prototype after trashing it in a review where they tested it on the wrong thing? I had a weird vibe about Linus before that, and just wrote him off after

Beehaw isn’t even Lemmy under the hood iirc but that’s nitpicking

What is it?

Piefed I think, I don’t even know what it is, I can’t find a ios client for it. it doesn’t even appear in any instance choice dropdowns or such. It’s a marvel it works at all. Probably glued together with cardboard and bee shit like my uni projects