Brave fucks with crypto. Never fuck with crypto. It's also Chromium, which means they're complicit in Google's efforts to DRM the internet.

It's pretty bad when your CEO disparages your product that much. It's like if Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said they'd be switching to Google Workspace because Microsoft Teams was inefficient and difficult to use.

Absolutely scathing.

Stop with the doomerism.
"Lemmy is losing users" -> Lemmy has a stabilizing base of communities developing their own culture after a great exodus from several centralized platforms. Original, high quality content is finding its home here as users engage with one another on thousands of federated, interoperable, transparent websites.

Forgive my ramblings, but here's the main differences I see, from a community perspective:

Bluesky's for people who loved twitter circa 2015
Mastodon's for people who loved the format but hated the way the platform made use of it. The community is FOSS-focused and anti-corporate.
Bluesky folks are anti-corporate, but they still want their social media to be on a single platform and tend to dislike federation
Mastodon folks tend to be in smaller circles and more tech enthused

Features-wise, Mastodon kills the algorithm in favour of chronological timelines and lists, while Bluesky embraces algorithms, allowing people to even make their own algorithms for the platform. Bluesky's AT Proto uses "DIDs" to identify users, which are associated directly with a domain^[or subdomain]. This means that when federation does eventually happen, usernames will just be @my.domain.com instead of ActivityPub's @actor@my.domain.com.

Federation's still not enabled so I have no clue how things will look and feel on that front, nor am I familiar enough with the protocol to make any claim about how versatile it is. ActivityPub is flexible enough to be a Twitter clone, a reddit clone, a blogging platform, a youtube clone, a twitch clone, a goodreads clone, or several other formats. AT Proto's currently only proven to work for a Twitter clone.

Fuck him, not for trying to get the game out there, but for trying to make a profit off it.

No, this is already solved without scam shit tied in.

Not a beehaw user directly, but I use many beehaw communities.

I appreciate the forwardness and transparency in this matter. As you've outlined, both in this post and in subsequent comments, this seems to be, rather than a full defederation, a conditional one. I'm totally for that, and I think the ability to do so is one of the key concepts that makes Federation such a useful and powerful tool. Those instances who cannot or do not moderate content that your instance doesn't believe in can simply be removed from the equation.

I hope to see more of this accountability being held between instances in the future. At the end of the day, our communities are fragmented by nature, and there are times we should remove separate communities explicitly. A good example I can think of is on Mastodon all the instances with CSAM or nazis.

The Fediverse gives us a greater ability to fine-tune our communities and curate the experience members thereof get to have, as well as what content they can be exposed to. I'm glad to see people taking strong action in favour of their community, and so long as it comes from this perspective, with genuine communication with the community, everything will work out.

/rant

"According to a report published by popular research companies"

I'd like to know to whom "popular research companies" refers, and by what means they're measuring "losing 30% of users".

Completely flat steel's gonna ding like a bitch and it'll never come out. You'll need an entire new sheet to replace it if you want it to look right.

That said, it will never look right since it's not being built with thermal expansion in mind.

X/Tweet/thing from Stephen Totilo

NEW - I got a major update from Unity about their new fees

• Unity "regrouped" and now says ONLY the initial installation of a game triggers a fee
• Demos mostly won't trigger fees
• Devs not on the hook for Game Pass

This is a truly pathetic attempt to save face. Fuck Unity, its now proven definitively that they cannot be trusted for current and future projects. The only thing they'll learn from this is to not be so loud about these sorts of changes.

• Majora's Mask: a 3-day timeloop where everything resets when you go back

• Katamari: A giant ball gets rolled around and collects stuff forever

• Baba Is You: Movable text is rules to the game

• Untitled Goose Game: You have to piss people off the right way

• Billie Bust Up^[unreleased]^: Musicals tell you upcoming platforming challenges

• Celeste: every time you die you quickly reset on the same "page"/small tile of map

• Splatoon: you shoot at the ground to go faster, hide, and/or win

• Odama: real-time tactical wargame pinball

• Golf Story: Golf-based fetch quests

• Astral Chain: asynchronously control a companion in combat

• Okami: paint skills on-screen in combat

• Astro Bears: Snake but in 3D

• Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime: Up to 4 players pilot parts of a ship together

• Pokemon Ranger: draw circles around monsters to catch them

• Viva Pinata: breed pinatas to create new species

• Spore: create and evolve a creature

Didn't really result in a loss, but a huge missed opportunity, when AT&T turned down an offer for them to purchase the early internet.

This is a truly pathetic attempt to save face. Fuck Unity, its now proven definitively that they cannot be trusted for current and future projects. The only thing they'll learn from this is to not be so loud about these sorts of changes.

Let's not forget that these AI aren't limited by age. Like fuck am I gonna be out here defending tech that would turn my kid into CSAM. Fucking disgusting.

Yup, was just Steam DRM. There's universal tools to crack that. Less so "you can't play our game unless you spend money" and more "it's slightly inconvenient to install this way, innit? Why don't you go buy it instead, bruv?"

One of these suits, filed earlier this year, invokes an arbitration clause in employees’ contracts that, according to Mashable, leaves Musk’s company on the hook for $1,600 in arbitration fees per two-party case, but only requires that former employees pay $400. With over 2,000 cases, the social media network’s arbitration bill alone comes in at nearly $4 million.

X has reportedly refused to pay those bills, either—arguing that it hasn’t required the former employees to move their disputes to arbitration. Now, ex-staffers have filed another lawsuit demanding the company pay the fees associated with their original filing.

Dropout.tv (formerly CollegeHumour) is also an unstruck company.

Please use the Godot Development Fund so more of your contribution goes to Godot.

I'm so fucking tired of advertisements. I'm sick and tired of it.

For starters, don't make a post asking how to make a torrent site on your main account lol

You can use this logic to explain away any other ponzi scheme too.

On the flipside, the belief that someone with a formal education is somehow beneath you or brainwashed for it.

Relevant

It is, and that's why antitrust laws are necessary.

Internet Archive's been victim to anti-preservation efforts for years. They'll deal with them likely the same way they always do, and are dealing with a lawsuit right now over The Great 78 Project.

OnlyFans announced it too, but walked back on it later.

I agree; r/piracy could essentially be the proverbial Mattress Store to this community’s Mafia.

I propose a new challenge:

Descriptive post titles.

It's available on github too https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-android/releases/tag/v0.1.6

The fediverse won

Paying $80 to ensure people paid for other things? This is silly.

They all already know about Lemmy 🤷‍♀️

Theft from billion dollar companies is a cool thing to do 😎

How does Unity track my installs?

All they'll say is what amounts to "just trust us, it's fiiiine"

I'm aware, but it's still supported, and that's enough for me to vomit over a garbage product.

They say they won't implement Google's DRM but words alone do not matter. If they continue to use Chromium, they'll be forced to adopt that and manifest v3.

Mood

It's hard to overstate how bold and game-changing the NLRB's decision to the benefit of worker's rights to collective action and form a union. They've successfully ushered in a reignition of the labour movement.

Yes, US copyright law requires human involvement to grant authorship. AI generated works are not eligible for copyright and it's unlikely to change unless copyright legislation goes through to yet further restrict copyright.

Blockchain is a tool for scammers used for scamming, and has almost exclusively been used for such.