Microw

@Microw@piefed.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 50 news websites in the US in July: BBC drops five places as paywall introduced; Most report traffic declines.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.

  Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hell Let Loose: Vietnam | Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  HLL let's you play both sides, so I expect this to also do

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fediverse Observer says Piefed MAU were 352 in May, 1068 in June and 1615 in July. So thats a rise of ~1300 people in two months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real Talk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Worst case scenario:

  The peer reviewer is Gabor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdBucks is a new payment system for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People are lazy, that'd be my explaination for why they'd use Patreon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you assume OP is a woman?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Try if you can see it using this link: https://piefed.zip/comment/942793

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They have already replied and I see the reply. Maybe different behaviour between Lemmy and Piefed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where exactly do we have portraits for early medieval (7th century) england?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse Report – #129 - this week's fediverse news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A new research paper on the lemmygrad.ml Lemmy instance, called “Exploring Left-Wing Extremism on the Decentralized Web: An Analysis of Lemmygrad.ml“. Within Lemmy there exists a subculture of various instances, most notably Hexbear and Lemmygrad, that self-describes as Marxist and/or leftist, and partially intersects with the developers of Lemmy. There is interesting research to be done on how that sub-community impacts the wider culture of the Threadiverse. This published paper limits itself to data from 2019 to 2022, which misses out on how these communities and cultures have developed over the more recent years. For example, the Hexbear instance was not federating with the rest of the network for a while, only to turn federation back on over a year ago, and it would be interesting to explore how that has impacted other Lemmy servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI IS BURNING THE PLANNET!!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People need to understand that water usage, plastic pollution, Co2 generation and power usage are all different things and just saying "tHe EnViRoNmEnT" isn't helpful. Some of these things matter more than others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Updates Are Coming to Loops⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like he is putting features into Loops that were originally planned for Pixelfed, but didnt work to implement there (Pixelfed is said to have a very messy codebase, dansup recently said that for weeks he had a broken CI on github).

  Sounds nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, PayPal has not denied responsibility so far. Which is pretty interesting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A lawyer for a processor like PayPal or Stripe could easily have gone "uh, the Mastercard contract clause prohibits this".

  And PayPal is well known for doing shitty things, so it wouldn't surprise me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Visa and Mastercard have clauses in their contracts that they don't even care about themselves, but payment processors like Stripe are bound to then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate to see all the suffering ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you run across a link with a regular "?utm_source=.." , that can not tell people anything about you. It simply tells the website "register one click onto this article coming from this specific newsletter we sent out". It does not tie this information to you.

  With other tracking things, what is described here is absolutely possible though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the dev team for Cities Skylines II kept saying the team felt it was ready, while it was a hot mess. They have an interest in publishing it now.

  Launching into early access while not being up to certain standard could hurt the brand.

  Now maybe the game was ready and it's all Krafton's fault. All I'm saying is that it is absolutely possible that the game isnt ready.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, both things can be true. Krafton might be trying to weasel out of paying that bonus, and the game might not be ready like it should be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨so... dubvee and dubvee tesseract shut down.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik he tolerated no support for calls for violence whatsoever on his instance. Which is his freedom to do as his line of moderating, but obviously brought him into conflict with the beliefs of many on Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldnt trust Bondi on anything she says. I think she is just flooding the zone with shit.

  And she specifically spoke about videos of Epstein with children; not clients with children.

  I have a hard time seeing how they would have gotten hold of those videos when all legal documents from Maxwells case and Epsteins death do not reference videos taken in at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the Trump administration simply edit the Epstein files and release them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no "client list" as far as we know. But there are the flight logs, Epstein's addressbook and recovered text messages etc. Those were released heaviky redacted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you are still confused, here is the simple explanation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Arians were right!

  (I mean Arianism the faith, not the other thing)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manor Lords publisher's time loop tactics RPG Every Day We Fight is out today in early access⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That Manor Lords namedrop is a bit baity, isn't it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The developers of Fedi software have different philosophies. Some developers are just not interested in implementing and supporting all kinds of AP actors, kinds of media, ways of attaching media etc. Because they want their software to focus on a certain thing.

  Others want to implement everything and interconnect with every platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Food.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also: this is food. It rots. It's simply not possible to move surplus food to other countries that easily, even if it was a good idea (which it isnt)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, I'm not sure about that. There was a point in time where he was - even outside his videos - engaging with Ben Shapiro and Elon Musk. Echoing their philosophies and world views.
  The alt-right was using him and his platform to lure teenagers in. It's possible that Felix did not even realize what was happening there. Or he was brainwashed himself for some time.

  The important thing is that from 2019 onwards he clearly distanced himself from any of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He emphasized that for him living in Japan and mainly needing to use maps in order to navigate, the japanese car GPS is the best fit.

  Which obviously is very different for people in a different situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I know some big german youtubers who years ago were like "we need to be more independent from youtube" and set up their own website. Every year the costs for hosting that would take out a huge cut of their earnings, so at the start of 2025 they finally gave up and said they couldnt pour even more money into that project as it simply wasnt profitable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The big youtubers rely on sponsorship money way more than ad money. But sponsorship money is dependent on viewership numbers, so that is the main issue