I don't exactly understand how this is going to kill small instances? I just stared with the Fediverse stuff so I might have understood it wrong:

Point 1: "Meta will unethically defederate from instances..." I'm assuming that means they'll block access to those instances for anyone that has an account on the Meta instance? I don't really see the problem with that. This won't affect small instances at all because people who want to view other instances will have an account somewhere else and people using the meta instance probably wouldn't have heard of the fediverse in the first place if it wasn't for meta. Its a win basically since they'll get introduced to the fediverse concept which is a step in the right direction. And small instances will stay as they are which is unaffected.

Point 2: If I understood it correctly they can only slow down access to other instances if one uses an account created on the meta instance? So same argument as in point 1.

What is this? 😂 A dog, a cat or something else?

Or else what? I guess they can't do much?

Not sure anymore. Since you're asking I'm assuming it makes a difference?

I don't care about their code in the post body. If there's a possibility I just block the whole instance. Don't want to see anything from them.

Thanks for the hint. What does

DROP_TABLE ALL

mean?

Also would you say random text that doesn't make sense is better or just copy pasting a paragraph from somewhere? Or just a one liner like: "Moved to Lemmy."?

Thank you for the detailed answer!

Whats the benefit of encoding it? Others might not know what that even is.

Ah lol my bad. Thanks for clarifying 😅

Got it. Wow they really seem to go all the way asshole mode on this. Maybe someone sues them. It's really not acceptable.

@Noremac@kbin.social

Yesss!!! You are the true, ultimate and unparalleled Boss! I'm not joking. That's it!! I was looking like 3 years for this game! Thanks so much!:D

Thanks.

No unfortunateley not. That's an android/ IOS game according to wikipedia.

@Noremac@lemmy.world

Thanks for your answer! But unfortunately neither is the game. The graphics in "Marble Madness" are too old and the graphics of "Switchball" are a little too good. It was similar to the Mario N64 DS slide graphics and it had like a "3rd person view" like Chromadrome/ GTA etc. It was more like 2000-2001 graphics. Similar to Tonic Trouble and M:Alien Paranoia graphics wise.

@Noremac@kbin.social Couldn't reply to your comment. I don't know why.

Maybe it is but it seems that you've unfortunately forgot the name :/

I don't really see how this is bad for Lemmy. Let me rephrase what I said as well:

Let them add those features. People who use metas instance wouldn't have come to Lemmy in the first place. The users who "just don't care avoiding meta" aren't on here now (maybe there's a miniscule amount that's how I see it). They will come when this threads thing properly rolls out. In my opinion Lemmy won't significantly change when this happens since people who wanted to stay on reddit did and those who are here now are trying out the better Boss way of living and probably won't switch to meta as soon as it comes out. Therefore this won't cause any trouble. Just block the meta instance "out of sight out of mind".

Imagine hanging out with a group of friends and someone from outside starts harassing you and that person really doesn't like you. Are you going to start hanging out with them? Obviously not. Just chill with your friends and don't mind them. Nothing about your friends is going to change.

I doubt that someone who got used to the free libre FOSS style of life and really enjoys it would switch to meta. No clue what meta would have to offer to them to switch. I think its easier to switch in the other direction.

Looks like GTA V with mods. I don't get everyone being so excited about the graphics.

Maybe this are console players who haven't seen GTA V on PC but graphics wise it doesn't seem like a huge upgrade.

Sure I'm excited for the story and new possibilities like being able to enter more buildings and maybe more activities like in rdr2 but graphics wise it kinda looks "normal".

Thanks! It just suddenly popped into my mind.