Beat Saber is a game, not a headset.

Everyone that tries VR fails. And yet tomorrow there will be another.

Only “absurd” in the context of a user. Not really in the context of a business with 3B MAU who will not leave no matter what.

It looks like at one time you could archive the group but not anymore.

blocking scrapers is very easy

The entirety of the internet disagrees.

I know that shitty AI bot all too well. Unfortunately I’ve tried and failed to get people to leave as well. I have a community of ~20k users. Sad reality is that not only does no one care but they will actively attack you for even suggesting such a thing.

Facebook knows what they’re doing. The only way to close the group is to remove each and every member, one by one, and even if you actually wanted to spend the time actually doing that (I have), they will “detect automated activity” and lock your account.

I created my own private Lemmy community. Even set up Photon as a frontend. Not 1 single user joined.

So yeah, we’re so fucked.

It potentially gives them grounds for a lawsuit. Probably not but potentially. There’s no reason not to explicitly deny permission. They have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

That is not “convenient and beginner-friendly”

You’re giving me anecdotes and I’m giving you statistics.

1. Bit charitable to say “no one uses it” when they have >300M MAU
2. Wasn’t talking about Threads, I was talking about Meta.

Yes but you can also pay someone else to do all that work that isn’t Apple, and then use it on Linux.

It’s usually as simple as logging into your Nextcloud account on Linux.

They’ve been doing it for quite a while. Very slowly. The problem is it’s currently unidirectional, and opt-in. I imagine its the same reason Apple has adopted RCS (also opt-in): legal pressure.

If they just ignore it completely, legislators might completely fuck them like they did Apple with alternative payments. But if they kinda half-ass it then they can point to it and say “SEE, WE HAVE INTEROP! NO MONOPOLY!”

You can log into any Lemmy instance from any Photon instance.

They didn’t say anything about a sale…?

None of them work anymore. I switched to podcasts 😅

Then do them. It’s still not going to decrease the energy use of your server.

No Silicon Valley are the ones throwing these things away because it costs them too much money to deal with old unreliable PCs.

A RPi is going to be smaller, quieter, and 10x more energy efficient though…

Why are we using bitly? 🤦