Does the Fediverse have more of a mental health problem than other social media sites? Or is it just more visible and more likely to be hidden away?

“Privacy features like user-agent reduction, IP reduction, preventing cross-site storage, and fingerprint randomization make it more difficult to distinguish or reidentify individual clients, which is great for privacy, but makes fighting fraud more difficult. This matters to users because making the web more private without providing new APIs to developers could lead to websites adding more:”

Ohhh it’s fighting fraud that they want to do! And here I thought it was entirely for the much more profitable goal of maintaining advertising revenue. Well, I’m SO GLAD to be wrong on that one. Slash S.

As a bee enthusiast, I approve of this artwork

Can’t wait to watch the steam charts. I’d be especially interested once they put the other blizzard titles on Steam as well since then we can estimate the number of players per game out of the “monthly active users” they report in their quarterly.

Blizzard is desperate here. And if there’s one thing about the internet it’s that people are good as sharks for smelling blood in the water. It’s the objectively correct move, but it could still end up backfiring if people can actually SEE just how dead the game is, and leave negative steam reviews.

Also, who exactly is going to install it through steam? Almost everyone who was going to play Overwatch already has. There’s going to be a minimum of people who just don’t want to have any game launcher but steam on their pc and really wanted to play Overwatch but couldn’t stomach the battle . net client. If it gets steam deck certified that is the only draw I can really see aside from a smattering of casual new sign ups.

Sad days. This was my favourite game for a very long time and it feels like potential squandered on a level not seen until Musk came along and bought Twitter.

Edit: spaced out the battle net to not be recognized as a link

Heilung! And Wardruna. If you like Maria Franz I really liked the album she did with Songleikr, which is more folky

idk about that… but some import/export tools would work a treat!

I really don’t expect any better behaviour from this person.

Give it a go! Maybe you’ll appreciate it more on a second round!

lol I was going to say it might be helpful to actually explain to people how and went into the article to write that up… but they are all just bog standard basic web browser features like reopen closed tab and incognito mode. i don’t think I’ve used a browser in the last 15 years that didn’t have that. What a useless article.

Small tip I don’t see mentioned is don’t be too afraid to make multiple accounts and try out a few places before you settle. Nothing says you can’t do that. You don’t have to make any permanent decisions when starting out.

If we are talking about the original Bioshock I can provide a competing perspective. I found the story to be extremely mid at its peak, and actually mind numbingly poor at the great moment of reveal. I literally fell asleep multiple times trying to get through the game. So if you are not vibing with it in the first 1/3 of the game I think there’s a good chance you just won’t.

I’m really glad that so many people loved this game. There are many different kinds of stories that work for many different kinds of people and this one works for a LOT of people. It has an amazing aesthetic. But it didn’t work for me.

Considering they also refuse to just pay their bills I don’t know what people expect

lmaooooooooo.

Why make one more lane bro up in the sky when we can make trains? We already have the technology to solve traffic and it DOESN’T involve making more cars, flying or otherwise. All flying cars would do to traffic is jam it up at the places where you park, and also create traffic in unplanned places like people’s attics and second floor apartments.

“Mastodon did not, and does not, have a unique selling point for most users” is a bit like saying “This park bench did not, and does not, have a unique selling point for most visitors.” just because it has a 10th of the number of people that use it as the one right next to the parking lot, even though it’s got a nicer view and is quieter and has much less litter surrounding it.

The rebuttal is frankly “So what?”. These migrations come in waves. The wave comes in, and the wave goes out. Some of the wave seeps in and sticks around. That’s the nature of these things.

Comparing fediverse sites to reddit and twitter is a fallacy and instead should be taken for what they are. I like the vibes on Beehaw. I like the vibes on my mastodon instance. I get to see the kind of content that I like to see and I don’t have big corpa algorithms trying to change my opinion or actively hide the content I DO like in favour of content that upsets me in the name of engagement.

I would call that a unique selling point. So maybe that’s another rebuttal. Op-ed person just wanted the fediverse experience to be something it wasn’t. They had expectations of the “migration” that weren’t met. But those are 100% their own problem and not an issue with the fediverse.

The fact that there are lawyers already facing repercussions of using chatgpt in their cases citing things that don’t exist proves it

I know I shouldn’t feed the trolls, but that’s not what gaslighting is and it’s fairly disrespectful to those who have actually experienced that kind of abuse to just throw the term around because someone disagreed with you and asked you to calm down.

There’s Calibre for a local option. It doesn’t have an android app itself, but it will connect to android and manage your ebooks. https://calibre-ebook.com/

Very similar to your rice and eggs. I cook the eggs sunny side up with runny yolks and put them on the rice. Green onions, and a handful of cherry tomatoes. Some soy sauce to season and I am full for quite a while

I agree big time. Rimworld is so replayable and totally worth the price of admission. Strangely enough, it’s another indie game that never goes on any significant discount.