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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say I’ve felt any such issues. Probably comes down to being on the biggest instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does Bluesky have that Mastodon doesn't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Forgive my ramblings, but here’s the main differences I see, from a community perspective:

  Bluesky’s for people who loved twitter circa 2015
  Mastodon’s for people who loved the format but hated the way the platform made use of it. The community is FOSS-focused and anti-corporate.
  Bluesky folks are anti-corporate, but they still want their social media to be on a single platform and tend to dislike federation
  Mastodon folks tend to be in smaller circles and more tech enthused

  Features-wise, Mastodon kills the algorithm in favour of chronological timelines and lists, while Bluesky embraces algorithms, allowing people to even make their own algorithms for the platform. Bluesky’s AT Proto uses “DIDs” to identify users, which are associated directly with a domain^[or subdomain]. This means that when federation does eventually happen, usernames will just be @my.domain.com instead of ActivityPub’s @actor@my.domain.com.

  Federation’s still not enabled so I have no clue how things will look and feel on that front, nor am I familiar enough with the protocol to make any claim about how versatile it is. ActivityPub is flexible enough to be a Twitter clone, a reddit clone, a blogging platform, a youtube clone, a twitch clone, a goodreads clone, or several other formats. AT Proto’s currently only proven to work for a Twitter clone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smileys are 41 years old yesterday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve got something on your lip, right here
  ɯ9
  :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use this logic to explain away any other ponzi scheme too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when NFTs sold for millions of dollars? 95% of the digital collectibles are now probably worthless.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC they backpedalled on that before they released due to the massive backlash

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC current twitter blue subscribers see 50% fewer ads than free users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will you be willing to pay for using Twitter?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine there’s many people who even like twitter on the fediverse, much less would like it enough to pay for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X will charge users ‘a small monthly payment’ to use its service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My mistake, I figured it was easy enough to confuse X as in Twitter with X as in several dozen other tech and tech-adjacent projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do you hate Microsoft?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate them because they invented Proprietary Software at a time that all software code was shared between hobbyists and built upon and freely. en.wikipedia.org/…/An_Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists#Op…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube suspends Russell Brand from making money off his channel — The suspension comes following the publication of rape and sexual assault allegations against the British star⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumption of innocence is in law. IANAL.

• Unity reportedly told dev Planned Parenthood and children's hospital are "not valid charities"www.gamesindustry.biz ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU regulator slaps TikTok with $368m fine for violating privacy laws⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  According to UNICEF, the EU has 80 million kids under the age of 18, many of whom will be under 13.
  Even if we were to say it was somehow a 50:50 split, that leasts 40 million kids who are potentially to be a part of this data set.
  Not all of whom use tiktok of course, but in the absence of data either way, let’s assume they all are.
  Is the data of 40 million people worth 345 million EUR?

  Is the data of 1 person worth (rounded) $9?

• Update: Unity office death threat was made by a Unity employeewww.polygon.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critical vulnerability in WebP Codec has browser vendors scrambling for updates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be evil

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is, and that’s why antitrust laws are necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s new USB-C iPhone cables and dongles are predictably expensive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah it’s a $29 USB-C to Lightning dongle

• Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fumewww.axios.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some Tesla engineers secretly started designing a Cybertruck alternative because they 'hated' it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely flat steel’s gonna ding like a bitch and it’ll never come out. You’ll need an entire new sheet to replace it if you want it to look right.

  That said, it will never look right since it’s not being built with thermal expansion in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X is suing California over social media content moderation law⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I call it X/Twitter/whatever just to add some frustration and negative sentiment to the branding in my own circles. A reminder that the platform’s been poisoned and it isn’t what people should be using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop with the doomerism.
  “Lemmy is losing users” -> Lemmy has a stabilizing base of communities developing their own culture after a great exodus from several centralized platforms. Original, high quality content is finding its home here as users engage with one another on thousands of federated, interoperable, transparent websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “According to a report published by popular research companies”

  I’d like to know to whom “popular research companies” refers, and by what means they’re measuring “losing 30% of users”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You literally don’t know what “Net Neutrality” means, and I don’t have the energy to explain it when you’re obviously not the type to listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senate confirms Biden FCC nominee, finally giving Democrats a 3-2 majority⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ted Cruz reminds me of a lot of people, but I hate him more than any of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, Canada has a very different tax system than the USA, and everywhere else doesn’t have this problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people here really defending child pornography

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  (it’s not)

  I’d love if you could cite your evidence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree completely. Unfortunately techbros have been making important world-changing decisions for two decades now and our legislators seem mostly fine to let them continue unabated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Psychologists.

  There’s no evidence that CSAM, real or virtual, helps reduce rates of child predation.