iMessage isn’t a big loss in the UK. FaceTime would be.

WhatsApp pulling out of the UK would have the biggest impact. Almost everyone uses it here.

Early game I'm getting 50-60 FPS @ 1440p on a 3070 and i7-12700K. Haven't got to a high population point yet but I expect a drop as my city gets bigger.

Overall the playability is good so far. A few stutters here and there, and also some texture flickering. Not as bad as I was expecting from all the noise surrounding the game at the moment.

It's the same rhetoric that the UK government are using to get a backdoor on messaging apps with E2EE.

Call me crazy, but Voluntary Resignation doesn't sound very "voluntary" if it's forced.

I never see the point in preloading as it’ll just have a huge patch to install on release anyway.

A solid foundation to build on I'd say. Needs better optimisation as my GPU runs hotter than I'd expect. As far as I can tell there are still a lot of quality-of-life things missing that were in the first game via mods. I've only played it for a couple of hours though so far though.

I had my invite and signed up. Deleted my account there two days later. It's awful over there.

I'm on PixelFed!

The PixelFed app is in TestFlight on iOS at the moment but the I believe it should be a full release in the near future according to the dev (@dansup@mastodon.social).

C:S2

It's at that point I'd start looking for a new job.

YouTube still slips through the net unfortunately.

My wife and I play white noise to my son via Spotify to help him sleep.

Does that mean Instagram will be allowed to launch Threads in the EU?

It’s been 5 months since the announcement already?! 💀

If you’re using relevant hashtags, then anyone browsing/following those hashtags would see the PixelFed posts on Mastodon anyway.

But you could create a Mastodon account and boost the Pixelfed posts for additional exposure as well.

We stream white noise through Spotify because it means it’ll be there on any device that’s Spotify works on. Phones, tablets, smart speakers, TVs, whatever.

I like both so I use both. I find myself much less “active” on Lemmy though.

I find the community aspect of Mastodon to be much better as you get to know people. Less likely to get that on Lemmy in my opinion as it’s content/topic oriented.

The average person doesn't understand what that means, let alone actually do it.

Yes that’s what I was suggesting.

I have tried Kbin (before I’d even heard of Lemmy), but because I used Mastodon first, I’m unlikely to use another platform in that kind of way tbh. Maybe I should give it another look.

Baldur's Gate 3 should win, but it won't. It'll be Zelda or Spider-Man.

If there are spots left, you can sign up from the PixelFed website.

UK as well.

Yeah sorry, I assumed federation but I understand that isn’t always the case.

Ive met some great people on mstdn.games. It's a gaming focused Mastodon instance.