GlitterInfection
@GlitterInfection@lemmy.world
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 6 months ago:
It still failed to hit projected box office returns with that factored in!
It’s just funny because it’s a good movie and the first one won an academy award but is terrible.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 6 months ago:
Fun fact, The Suicide Squad (2021) was a box office flop, whereas Suicide Squad (2016), the only academy award winning DCEU film, was a box office smash hit!
- Comment on is there a search engine for the fediverse? 6 months ago:
The fediverse has a built-in search engine?
I can only comment on my experience searching for communities in lemmy and people to follow on mastadon, but in both cases I am not sure I’d say “works quite well” would describe my experience.
But also that’s not what I think OP was talking about.
They want a search engine for a random fact like google. It’s been long true that you need to add “reddit” to the end of any google search to find the info you needed.
It’d be nice to have a fediverse alternative.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
The link seemed to work for me from lemmy. I see three posts there when I click it at least.
- Comment on Starfield's New Maps Are Great, But Boy Those Cities Are Tiny 6 months ago:
They felt extremely small, too.
Because they are extremely tiny.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 6 months ago:
tomsguide.com/…/stop-your-snooping-smart-tv-how-t…
Just to echo, LG’s smart tv is an ad platform just like the rest of them, and it’s gross.
- Comment on Mastodon Incorporates as a Non-Profit in the US 6 months ago:
Those well-meaning-but-terrible-in-practice consumer protection laws are probably a good indicator of why the EU isn’t a hub of technological innovation.
They’re at least a symptom of the same underlying outlook on the industry at least.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 6 months ago:
Very true. Though I would click that bait so hard!
I still prefer this type of article to lots of others in the bait family. Obviously they want people sharing this article and saying “See! That thing I believe is proven!”
It’s a nicer engagement-driving piece of content.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 6 months ago:
While Helldivers 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 might look like sudden jackpot successes
This article is funny. It’s like the feel-good inverse of a rage-bait article. It’s stating what we all want to be true and cherry-picking two games that only sort of provide evidence towards it, and only if you squint really hard.
Both games are sequels backed by huge publishers with tons of cash.
BG3 is a Dungeons and Dragons franchise title; a franchise which recently received a massively successful film, a huge boost in popularity during a pandemic, and a boost in cultural relevance in Strange Things.
Helldivers 2 fits the claim a bit better, but it is still a sequel to a well received, well selling title. The extraction shooter genre is also exceedingly popular right now, and the fact that it has Games as a Service bullshit built in says that publishers weren’t as hands-off as the article implies.
The more realistic take-away from this is that good games with huge budgets for development AND marketing in reasonably popular genres can make a ton of money.
Which isn’t saying much.
- Comment on Mastodon forms new U.S. non-profit 6 months ago:
I don’t know the answer but they pointed this out further in the press release:
However, it’s also important for us that Mastodon is one of the few, if not the only social media platform that operates out of the EU, and we would like to keep it that way.
I’d assume that this is for a reason, too. If it were advantageous to run your company out of the EU people would probably do so sometimes.
- Comment on One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub 6 months ago:
You are describing the current situation in the fediverse.
- Comment on One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub 6 months ago:
Imagine if login was a federated feature in lemmy.
What this would mean is that I could go to lemmy.ml and login using my lemmy.world account credentials and people from lemmy.ml could go to lemmy.world and log in using theirs.
Neither could go to beehaw and login because it does not federate with the two of them.
In this world I could create an identity on lemmy.world and a separate identity on lemmy.ml if I wanted to.
Now imagine if I could login with my lemmy.world account on a non lemmy platform that lemmy.world federates with.
There’s nothing centralized about this, and it is exactly in the spirit of everything else in the fediverse.
What you seem to be against is forcing you to have only one login. That does go against the model we are talking about.
And it isn’t what’s being suggested.
- Comment on One Login: Towards a Single Fediverse Identity on ActivityPub 6 months ago:
Nothing about this idea implies centralization. There is no reason identity has to be tied to the platform using the identity and no reason why there needs to be a central identity store.
- Comment on What's it like adding a world to Star Wars? The Outlaws developers explain 6 months ago:
Because those other devs didn’t pay for an advert-article?
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 6 months ago:
That’s all fair. I can see what you meant after reading it, so maybe it’s more of a me thing than one you have to consider in any depth. I know I have issues around feeling heard that aren’t the general. And people who don’t like being called out for cis-typical behaviors tend to be various forms of awful people that don’t really need to be included.
Anyway, thank you for the conversation and the blog posts. I’m using Hotspot Shield as a vpn, if that helps and looking at your site through Safari on my iPhone.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 6 months ago:
Thank you for the thoughtful response here.
If it helps, I feel like “Be an ally if you’re cis and joining the conversation” might fit what you’re saying and wouldn’t have bristled me. But I recognize that it isn’t your responsibility to manage the emotions of people who have unquestioned privilege.
I also hope this isn’t a weird question but I noticed that I have to turn my vpn off to see your site. Is that intentional?
On the other stuff, I love that you’re talking about the importance of account migration, and I like the idea of the concentric federation.
There’s a bit more in there about scalability. So it’s nice to see your thoughts around it. I was thinking that the opt-in process which messages you for approval was the closest to scalable from the former article, because it allows everyone the opportunity to opt in without requiring hidden knowledge.
I guess finding a way to build opt-in into the protocol in some way would be the most scalable option in the long term. However that could work.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 6 months ago:
I don’t think you added anything new to the argument and their linked source addressed it from a technical and ethical perspective.
Personally, I don’t think that it’s reasonable when someone asks you to not do something for you to do that thing directly to them.
You’ve done that here. Whether or not you think you’re bringing up good points, it’s still pretty rude.
Anyway, you’re right that this isn’t about points. I started off trying to give you benefit of the doubt that you were respectfully responding to the article and just missed what they had said, but then you doubled down and triple downed.
I understand the need to try to voice concerns, and so I understand why you’re continuing to push.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 7 months ago:
DON’T say the things that developers who ignore consent typically say
That’s likely to increase the pushback. If that’s your goal, great, go for it! If not, though, it’s best to avoid stuff like this.
- “Posting publicly gives implied consent to use the data”
I don’t inherently agree with the article’s ask, but you’ve literally only proven its point by stating, verbatim, one of their “please stop making us retread these tired arguments over and over” points.
OP links to a Mastodon thread from a user who breaks down the technical limitations of ActivityPub and proposes how the situation can be improved. Maybe read that.
Also, it you think that these are reasonable suggestions, then perhaps ignoring them directly isn’t the best way to engage with this article?
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 7 months ago:
Read the article, I didn’t write it.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 7 months ago:
The article addresses this directly in the section on things to not say, though:
ActivityPub does indeed “makes assumptions that are fundamentally opposed to the kinds of protections that people seem to be seeking.” But in a discussion about whether or not to get consent, even the ones that are true the miss the point – just because ActivityPub leaves open possibilities for you to do something without getting consent, that’s not the only option.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 7 months ago:
I’m not sure there’s a better way to put them, but I bristled at the two suggestions at a high level which tell me what to say or not say, and call out my being cis as a thing to be careful about.
Despite the bristling I read through them and found that they were things I wouldn’t say or do, and they were reasonable suggestions.
But especially the cis comment made me kind of worried. As the platform grows these types of desired policies are going to be drowned out by the majorities.
All of the proposed solutions are intentionally not scalable ones, and seem designed to keep the platforms smaller and protected. This makes absolute sense especially when held up beside the marginalized peoples who are asking for them’s experiences of being marginalized.
I hope that we can find ways that satisfy those needs even through growth. It would be interesting to see scalable opt-in solutions for this problem. It would especially be useful to integrate solutions into the protocol.
But in truth I was shocked to learn about robots.txt recently, and more shocked to hear how well-ish that type of solution worked until AI came along and ignored it. So it’a anyone’s guess as to how well similar solutions might work here.
- Comment on Eight tips about consent for fediverse developers 7 months ago:
That’s similar to the “you’re being inconsistent” thing that the article says not to say, kind of.
Consent isn’t really built into ActivityPub and it’s inherently the opposite of how I understand it to work (copying your content all over the place regardless of your desires).
But their argument is kind of reasonable.
Who cares?
We can change ActivityPub, but we couldn’t change Twitter. People were tolerating worse just for the sake of having a community before they moved to the fediverse. They had no say before and they’re asking for better from it now that they can have their voices heard at all.
- Comment on 70 percent of devs unsure of live-service games sustainability 7 months ago:
But I want to be exploited indefinitely!
- Comment on World of Warcraft’s next expansion The War Within will run a beta before launch, and you can sign up now 7 months ago:
Honestly, given the advances in money milking machine design and management, the 20 year old ones are the better, less exploitative, options with fewer dark patterns.
- Comment on Meta closed Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram 7 months ago:
I am using their competitor’s products without issue, so I’m not seeing how this is anticompetitive.
But I do hate Meta.
- Comment on Meta closed Threads in Turkey to comply with injunction prohibiting data sharing with Instagram 7 months ago:
Seems like the type of thing that if you cared about it you wouldn’t use a Meta product in the first place.
- Comment on Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse 7 months ago:
I went to the article expecting rage inducing decisions based on your comment, but your TLDR has no relation to the article whatsoever.
The article is pretty glowing about Threads and Mastodon, and its author seems to be excited by them being connected through federation. They seem hopeful that they can use Mastodon to continue to enjoy their Threads communities.
They also claim out that the default Threads experience is way better than the default Mastodon one, especially for the average user, but the API of Mastodon makes for a way better experience in terms of third party clients and tools.
They were able to consume the Threads content chronologically instead of through the algorithmic For You feed that none of us want.
Generally this is the first article posted I’ve seen that was talking about this from a UX perspective, as well as from a Threads user’s perspective, and I found it interesting to read.
- Comment on IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act 7 months ago:
There’s definitely stuff in the rest of the law that addresses how effective your solution needs to be. So just ignoring requests will get you into trouble.
It also would be fraud to name a person who isn’t real or isn’t aware of being appointed or isn’t actually doing anything in relation to the problem. You have to give their name and contact information to the copyright office.
It’s fun to think we could stick it to the RIAA if they came knocking, but if you don’t have the cash to back it up, you are going to lose that fight.
- Comment on Been playing FF7 Rebirth (35 hours in) and really not enjoying it. Does anyone else feel this way? 7 months ago:
That sounds like how I remember FF7 being.
Is this game a clone? It’s definitely a clone. It’s not a clone. It’s maybe a clone. Is it a clone?
That’s FF7.
- Comment on IFTAS release a guide to help instance admins comply with the Digital Services Act 7 months ago:
I was having a conversation elsewhere about funkywhale being used to share copyright protected content and in that conversation I ended up reading about the US DMCA Safe Harbor’s requirements.
It requires you to have a designated person with their name registered with the copyright office to be considered a safe harbor.
copyrightalliance.org/…/dmca-safe-harbor/
- designating agents to receive takedown notices from copyright owners and recording those designated agents with the U.S. Copyright Office;
This is enough for me to never want ro host my own instance of any fediverse software. I can’t imagine this is being done by every lemmy instance.
Is there something that makes it so this requirement isn’t important for lemmy?