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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End of the road: The Xbox 360 game marketplace will shut down in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Backward-compatible Xbox 360 games will still be available for purchase on the Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S stores, Microsoft says.

  So no, presumably Microsoft just doesn't want to deal with the tangle of close to 20-year-old code that holds up the Xbox 360's store interfaces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They already have alt-tech, which had kind of a headstart on the Fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there such a large amount of communist and transgender related posts on the Fediverse compared to other websites?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The Fediverse is home to a lot of young, tech-minded people distrustful of major corporations. The younger generations are more likely to come out as transgender due to greater awareness and acceptance of gender identity and dysphoria, and a decentralised, open platform is naturally going to appeal to communists, syndicalists and other left-wingers who don't want some billionaire buying the next website they get comfortable on. And funnily enough, there are a surprising number of trans people in the tech sector, to the point where trans-flag socks have become a meme among programmers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads Is the Perfect Twitter Alternative, Just Not for You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, federated network things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads Is the Perfect Twitter Alternative, Just Not for You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read the article? Excerpts include:

  Generally, in business, it is sensible to provide your customers with what they want. With Twitter, the meme-makers' favourite billionaire is doing the opposite. The cyber-trucker is trying his best to cull his customer base.

  Threads is what would happen if Twitter and Instagram made out in a bowling alley. It's all their worst parts combined - but it may well succeed. Rocket-man Musk's changes to Twitter have not exactly made it 'brand friendly'. Threads, meanwhile, is shaping up to be a paradise for in-your-face brands - and the AdTech industry would love for you to join them

  and

  Threads' naffness won't stop its success. It's data-scraping fluffily dressed up as substandard corporate twaddle. It's a cringe-inducing privacy invasion. It's not meant for users, but that doesn't really matter: you're not a user, you're a product.

  It's describing Threads as a product not for users, but advertisers. The perfect brand-friendly non-place for companies to stick their marketing crap. That doesn't really come across as a ringing endorsement to me.