Porn and piracy.

The two things guaranteed to drive any platform.

All aboard the VHS train baby...

I think in the short term its very a) short sighted and b) damaging to the whole lemmyverse.

It only highlights to both new users and naysayers the fragility of the whole thing. One (small) group of people can decide to press the nuclear option and suddenly thousands of genuine users both on their server and others are penalised and lose out.

For one of the "big four" instances (.ml, world, shitjustworks and beehaw) to pull the plug so soon after the "blackout influx" will not inspire confidence in users. New users who signed up to beehaw (on advice that .ml was struggling for capacity) suddenly a few days into their interactions find themselves locked out of communities they had joined. Equally people who joined other instances but were enjoying gaming@beehaw or politics@beehaw which were the two biggest gaming/politics communities, suddenly also find themselves locked out.

Yes, this is on one hand the benefit of the fedeverse, but for new members, this just demonstrates that a small group (by the sounds of it 4-5 people) can make a snap decision, and effect thousands of users.

It seems very short sighted and damaging to a lot of the goodwill built up over recent days

exactly this, they can control what is on it, give their journalists, shows, etc accounts and it being a self contained hub for everything bbc, while interacting with rest of the fediverse.

Im guessing they will also get more statistics and information from hosting it themselves as well. its a no brainer.

No, you don't work for reddit.

Being a moderator on r/mymomsbasement does not make you an "employee"

Spotify has one of the highest quality services

spotify is a great service for spotify

spotify is a great service for the consumer

spotify is a godawful exploitive pile of manure for artists

Its now at, um, Users: 112113.5

who is the .5?

They are literally the only UK daily newspaper not owned by some rich owner or conglomerate, and about the only newspaper (along with the observer) that does not publicly support one of the two main political parties.

And 2018 study found the guardian was by far the most trusted of the uk daily's, and second only to the bbc as a news source https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2018/10/30/western-europeans-under-30-view-news-media-less-positively-rely-more-on-digital-platforms-than-older-adults/

but yes, im a Guardian reader so maybe biased. but theres a reason I read them, and not another.

t could be due to coding issues

It's self inflicted. This is what happens when you turn API's off or make them unaffordable.

instead of using a low resource API entry, sites now switch to full on scraping which uses huge amounts of resources.

I believe we should de-federate just to save confusion for new members.

for instance, a new user going to "communities" (all).. 4 of the top 9 communities are homed with Beehaw

But there is no indication to the user that you wont actually be interacting with all of those people, you will be joining a community that may say x number of members but will actually be restricted to your local instance.

Its confusing.,

It also restricts alternatives to those rooms from establishing and growing.

I honestly think its crucial we de-federate asap.

Huawei and Honor can both survive purely on domestic sales before you even worry about ROW.

No idea why you think there are only three brands, or why you think the US is the only market that matters (it's fairly obvious you are US based)

as far as i have seen (as a subscriber to c/piracy) there is no links to pirated content and they are very clear that that is not allowed

the vast majority of the discussion is on morals of piracy, anti piracy measures, etc etc

Switch Users - This is amazing, will be able to play Red Dead Redemption on the go

PS5 Users - a 10 year old game, with no fps boost, no graphics boost, for £50? **** Off R*

i think the root of their issue is having only 4 moderators and creating all those communities for general catchment like gaming, politics, music.

and yeh, i actually think that for the short term lemmy.world need to defederate with beehaw. Because the problem is, world users are still using those communities not realising that nobody outside of .world can see them, and that includes people from .ml and itjustworks, because the federation link is broken.

I would tend to disagree to an extent.

Because at the moment, posters on lemmy.world are posting to c/politics, c/gaming, c/news on beehaw completely unaware that not only can those comments not be seen on beehaw, but they also arent sharing comments with sh.itjust.works, lemmy.ml etc

its confusing for new users.

I very much think that for the time being Beehaw is defederated in return, just to stop people posting to those communities not realising that they are operating in a wee sandbox, completely invisible to the rest of the feds.

well, in the short term, losing the biggest gaming, politics and open source communities from the fediverse at large is fragility.

At least from a new user perspective, There will be a ton of users on defederated instances wondering why suddenly threads are half empty or only populated by people on their instance, and a bunch of people on beehaw wondering why they now cant access the communities they have been participating in

who knew that firing all your dev's with no severance would backfire on you.

Sorry, If you ignore all employee protections, and fire people and refuse to pay them what they are owed, you can not really complain about them using those skills elsewhere including things they learned in your company.

you aren't paying for volume of content available, that would only make sense if you were subscribing directly to reddit or lemmy as you would with netflix, disney etc

revenue goes to the app dev, and sync for lemmy and sync for reddit have i would presume, identical development and maintenance costs.

your logic is like saying that fuel should be cheaper for a 1.4l mini than it is for a ferrari

That said, I do think £18.99 lifetime just to remove ads is a bit extreme, its certainly not affordable for me. That's more than a year of Ultra without the extra features. I think sweetspot for "pro" edition that has no ads certainly would have been sub £10, especially when im gonna be a large volume of users have dns that removes ads anyway and really the "pro" is just a "one time donation" kinda thing

I can't decide. I have used Infinity for years on Reddit. Been using connect and liftoff for Lemmy.

In some ways it feels so warm and familiar to be on Lemmy in infinity, but in some ways, I'm thinking, it's Lemmy, not Reddit, it shouldn't feel like Reddit.

I'm very torn

They are essentially liberal, if a little left sided of centre, but I think they are the only UK newspaper that does not publicly support any political parties.

War in Ukraine is still very much covered in the print/digital news. My two go-tos (the guardian and the bbc) both have dedicated section for the Russian Invasion.

I don't watch television news, but I can imagine there is less coverage on that simply because there is not much suitable video content to be broadcast and what there is is usually several days, or even weeks old for operational reasons.

consider this my half comment to try and ba..

TIL that you could game on a Mac

Or even better, it forces a banana suit on you, so you can carry on playing but everyone knows who you are.

There is no indication that they never will de-federate from Meta.

All they have said is rather than shutting the stable before the horse bolts, they are actually waiting for the horse to get in the stable first and then address if the door needs closing.

There really is no need to either defederate from meta, or make that decision right now anyway

theres other ways. For instance in France its now law (I believe) that car parks (parking lots in US) over a certain size have to be covered in solar panels

takes up no space, covers the cars from the elements and provides power

The French Senate has approved a bill requiring all large parking lots across France to be topped with solar canopies in the next six years, which are predicted to generate as much energy as 10 nuclear reactors.

The legislation mandates that all new and existing car parks with 80 or more parking spaces must be blanketed in photovoltaics covering at least half of their surface area. [link]

exactly this.

The first rule of Fight Club..

There's a few providers who have lasted the course, some as long as ten years, but they don't have superiptv.xyz websites, they don't have facebook groups, or twitter accounts. They rely on word of mouth and handle their business on telegram/discord etc

Cycling might be.

Cycling the sport isn't. The sheer volume of support cars, media cars, motorbikes at every race is utter insanity.

That's before we get into the sponsorship from oil and chemical companies, and at least two sportwashing teams

looking at the list it looks like they manually defederated from about 100 instances

And then they added a further few hundred alphabetically so i presume by importing a block script on mastadon instances

Trouble is, they have defedded from 2 of the 4 biggest ones.

It just makes things look very fragile to a newcomer or someone wanting to point out federations downside

a temporary measure because of problem users coming in from the two instances they blocked

they have blocked considerably more than 2 instances.

without even a FPS boost to 60fps? For £50

nah, thats not ok. by any stretch.

Especially when the PS3 version was (as far as I recall) available streamed on PS+ Premium tier/PS Now

The other 30% are the COD players currently missing somewhere in Ukraine

This is the way

If only the launcher I use on android supported homescreen icons :( (AIO)

This has blown my brain. I have never considered doing the diagonal first.

But then, my entire life I mounted a bicycle from the left, right leg over first. It occurred to me I did this so tried to mount my bike from the opposite direction. After finally figuring out how to even move my left left over the bars, I then fell over.

So based purely on this experience, I shall continue to do forward, followed by diagonal.

Working for me now.

just needs "alexandrite" in the header changing to lemmy.world i think, and maybe the logo changing

I’m so confused by this.

as in, desktop pc's, laptops etc, NOT mobile

Will the people in Russia be able to connect the dots and see how this blood is on Putins hands?

nah, they will claim he was captured by nazi's and radicalised while in Ukraine

I think long term its a "big deal", but in the shorter term, the amount of panic among people who are actively switching to another instance because the instance they are on has not blocked threads yet is kinda ridiculous.

I am not leaving lemmy.world for another instance because they have not instantly blocked threads (who don't even have connection set up to the fediverse in a way that lemmy can share content)

So in the short term (like today, this week, this month) it is not a big deal.

In the longer term it is a big deal and worthy of discussion.

But, because someone says "I am demanding lemmy.world unfederate from meta in the next 24 hours or I leave" does not mean they support Meta on the fediverse :D

i presume they mean inline v offset analog sticks

Instances can just defederate with those servers