anthoniix

joined 1 year ago
 

With all the controversy around the game, I pretty much ignored anything to do with it at launch. Since the game is on sale right now I wanted to know, is it actually any good? If it is I'd like to play it.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm conflicted because it doesn't have a headphone jack

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is not a good comparison. Our bodies are not engineered by anyone, but our software is.

 

Corporations don't just sit out on new technologies, and no matter how hard you try you can't force them to. Defederating from Meta's new project preemptively is naive, and will not do much of anything.

Protocols are going to be adopted by corporations, whether we like it or not. SMTP, LDAP, HTTP, IP and 802.11 are all examples of that. If it ends up that meta is able to destroy the fediverse simply by joining it, that is a design flaw on OUR end. Something would then clearly need to be different in order to prevent future abuse of the protocol.

FOSS is propped up by corporations. By for profit corporations. If you want to stop those corporations from killing projects, you put safety guards up to make sure that doesn't happen. You don't just shut them out and put your head in the sand.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Copyright should not exist. However, under our current economic system, capitalism, it should exist for a short period of time. Probably about 5-10 years.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I guess? Aside from the calling it's fine imo. UI was also easier for me to use

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago (20 children)

I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.

 

Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Wait, we haven't already done that?

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

this happened? >_>

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

What are you on about?

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, the replicated youtube we'd need to either have a lot of money for hosting or use a decentralized model. The second option isnt even that feasible though.

 

People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that's happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is "That won't ever work", "You're wasting your time", "Imagine caring about that".

This isn't the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn't mean all of this was pointless.

The Fediverse continues to grow, and that's genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.

A lot of times the things we want don't happen in 1 big moment, it's a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.

It's going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Honestly, others do have point when they say we are basically leeching off of the platform. I honestly don't think I'd mind paying for youtube, I currently don't because it kind of just got ingrained in me that youtube was "free". I think the ad supported model is fundamentally flawed though.

Platforms will always want to make it worth it for advertisers to work for them. With the huge trove of user data that sites like Youtube, Twitter, Facebook etc. have they will use that to leverage personalized ads that will feed your brain with garbage all day and coax you into buying shit you don't need or sometimes even falling for scams.

I'd honestly like it better if these sites just straight up charged you right out of the gate. Maybe on top of that we could have sites be interoperable, like the fediverse, so it's not necessarily what the site offers but how they offer it to you. Making you want to pay for an experience that you truly can't get anywhere else.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm really in support of everything that System76 is doing. Outside of Framework I think they're one of the more interesting enthusiast projects. I think what makes me particularly excited for Cosmic is that it will be under the GPL3 license, and that it will use GTK.

[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I make my own music. I haven't put out my album though yet lol

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