I agree this seems kneejerk. If Meta refuses to abide by the standards of interoperability and openness then lock them out, but by doing so ahead of time the fediverse is committing the crime it’s pre-punishing Meta for.

Could make that argument for every genre though. Racing games will always fundamentally be about making a vehicle get to a finish line before the other ones, etc. Applies outside of games, too. Music, books, film, if you set the bar for innovation that high then we just all stop doing art.

Oh that’s what’s been happening.

What do you propose a first person shooter features, if not guns? Non-violent FPS games exist like Splatoon, but those are still guns. Bows are an option, but that’s still projectile-based violence.

Hey there! I’m a human, not an ad. Hello fellow human! I see you’re interested in [contextual keyword targeting]. I think you might be {emotion4} to learn about this related thing, [ad for jesus]!

This’ll be reddit by the end of the year.

Fortunately something like RES doesn’t need Reddit’s blessing to exist. A browser extension that rearranges information the browser has already downloaded (to massively oversimplify what RES is doing) doesn’t need API access.

They could shut down old reddit but the only reason RES doesn’t support new reddit is that it would require rewriting the whole thing. If that was the only option, someone would eventually do it.

In general it’s actually less burdensome.

I probably hate it less than most people but it doesn’t excuse bad design. Warframe, for instance, requires you to always be online - but if your instance is set to Solo, you can pause the game.

Preordering is dumb, preordering in 2023 when it’s 50/50 whether any given PC port is going to be a total mess is dumb

I’m still really struggling to get posts to actually submit.

I know I’ve instinctively opened Sync a couple times already. I assume a lot of people who use reddit are lurkers as well, who don’t really pay any attention to the quality of the homepage and will just browse like nothing changed.

Clearly the data is wrong. Switches Jane, who owns three hundred million switches, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

Jailbait

I don’t have any faith they’ll even push it back. That “ama” was such a disaster, spez is a complete narcissist.

Given how long ago this experiment was, it really recontextualizes their current stance. They are moving to eliminate all access to their site that isn’t the official app.

Really fast registration approval, it’s nice to see an admin who cares for their community. Still kinda lost with Lemmy but so far so good and I look forward to interacting with everyone.