Deref

@Deref@kbin.social
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I love controversy.

Do you think Ernest should run and develop this whole site out of his personal income?

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Maybe don't call them shitlibs?

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Don't see a problem with it as long as they don't get copyright on the outputs of their AI. That would make enforcing any IP impossible on the internet because there's no way to prove it wasn't AI generated.

It's their decision and you should respect that. I also don't agree with the defederation and the rest of their policies but you can just not use it. No need to turn this into a political conflict.

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Just let people build more housing. In most American cities it's either totally impossible or so expensive only millionaires and big real estate companies can afford it. There's no reason for a permitting process that takes 5 years or for single family zoning, other than homeowners self interest and racism.

It covers Apple/Google tax. They didn't want to have lower revenue on mobile or go the Spotify route.

With Proton most games run with no issues and just as fast as on Windows. Those that don't are because of anticheat, weird launchers or invasive DRM. I still have a Windows partition for those games and Windows only tools but haven't used it in months.

Or limit copyright terms to ~20 years and repeal Section 1201 (together with 512 for good measure). That would cover far more than just old games.

Coming legally is almost impossible.

Some communities only exist on Reddit. There's nothing wrong with using it as long as you have an ad blocker and don't pay for premium or awards. I'd even say it's the right thing because you cost them money.

Legalizing immigrants means they can't get deported for fighting back or trying to quit. And having no choice is the #1 requirement for exploitation.

Sort by hot (or new if hot doesn't work) instead of active.

These are all fast, violent and kind of similar to each other:

  • Broforce is a platformer with fully destructible levels where you save the world from Satan's terrorist army. It has more explosions than a Michael Bay movie.
  • Hotline Miami and its sequel are tactical top down games about shooting up houses. You die a lot but restarts are automatic so it's no big deal.
  • Katana Zero is like Hotline Miami if it was a platformer. You're a cyber ninja who can slow down time and reflect bullets with his katana. The story is interesting and very emotional.
  • Ghostrunner is Katana Zero but 3D.

Even in the US there's no law against hosting encrypted files. They could be liable if they knew a specific file was illegal/pirated and didn't take it down but a recent SCOTUS case (think it was Twitter v Taamneh) set the precedent that general knowledge of illegal activity is not enough.

Valve has a pretty unique flat structure that could protect them from a corporate buyout, even more if Gaben decides to transfer ownership into an employee trust and turn it into a full co-op when he leaves.

Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.

Do you know where kbin shows the list of defederated instances? I can't find anything like that, there's just the modlog.

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Mint is very opinionated and made explicitly for less technical users. If you have basic command line skills (or you're willing to learn) Fedora gives you more choice and in my experience it's actually more reliable than Debian based distros.

Don't do that. Deleting your account is enough and some of your comments might be useful info that doesn't exist anywhere else.

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Nostr is the Bitcoiner protocol. It's simple but inflexible and not that censorship resistant (if you don't run your own relay you can lose data). ATP is more like Ethereum, way more complex but you can build actually useful apps with it.

Once again, America's most successful export is right wing insanity.

That's probably a kbin UI bug

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There's no way to enforce that. Bots can change IP address and not all instances have a dmca page.

Feedbro has a simple and customizable UI and supports both Chrome and Firefox.

Bluesky is working on a fix. They have a global identity system where you can move all your data (posts, likes, followers, blocks) to another instance if you get banned. The only thing that changes is your handle.

This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don't have money wouldn't destroy everything like in RARBG's case.

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It doesn't appear automatically on related magazines (would be a nice feature though) but you can link magazines from other instances like this: /m/lemmyworld@lemmy.world. You can subscribe to them and see them in /m/all like they're part of Kbin.

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So far it just looks like there will be a couple of instances who defed from everyone else, not a large scale split. Reddit refugees are mostly average users, not radical leftists like those who left Twitter for Mastodon.