SorteKanin

SorteKanin , 3 days ago

According to Steam's own survey, Linux is still less than 2% of the user base and it doesn't look like it's changing much. I don't know how it has looked historically though but probably not too much different.

Realistically speaking, it's only a small percentage of people who bought the Steam Deck, and they probably already had a gaming PC, which means they probably had a Windows PC.

So unfortunately, I don't think Linux gaming is anywhere close.

SorteKanin , 5 days ago

There are ways to prioritise feature development that don't involve telemetry and I'd even say they are better than telemetry. For instance, surveys, user interviews, usability tests and that sort of thing.

SorteKanin , 6 days ago

What would it take to get a "Steam but TV/movies instead of games"? I feel like if I could see reviews of movies and I could buy them and download them and have them forever and buy them on sale and all that good stuff, it wouldn't be so bad.

How come none of the streaming services have gone for this model? Steam is swimming in money, surely this method could work?

SorteKanin , 6 days ago

Why is licensing so easy with games though? It really seems like there's this arbitrary difference in how the video games and streaming industries work.

SorteKanin , 6 days ago

rights expire for TV shows and movies far more often than they do for games

Any idea why there is this discrepancy between TV and games?

SorteKanin , 6 days ago

Yes that is true - although many games on Steam can play offline so because I download the game, I own it in that fashion. They can't take that away.

But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.

SorteKanin , 6 days ago

Convincing analysis. I guess the question is, if we assume this is the case, will the industry ever heal?

SorteKanin , 8 days ago

Oh right, is that this new "free speech absolutism" I've heard about? 🙃

SorteKanin , 8 days ago

Imagine this happens to some random personal account... It'd probably be gone for good.

SorteKanin , 8 days ago

The judge found that X Corp's argument exposed a tension between the platform's desire to control user data while also enjoying the safe harbor of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which allows X to avoid liability for third-party content. If X owned the data, it could perhaps argue it has exclusive rights to control the data, but then it wouldn't have safe harbor.

"X Corp. wants it both ways: to keep its safe harbors yet exercise a copyright owner’s right to exclude, wresting fees from those who wish to extract and copy X users’ content," Alsup wrote.

Seems like a sound judgement. You can't have your cake and eat it too. If Elon Musk wants to own the data, he must also be liable for it.

SorteKanin , 14 days ago

While I truly hope something is done on the US side, I am much more hopeful that the EU will be able to arrive to such a solution in a reasonable time.

SorteKanin , 14 days ago

I haven't read the book but as far as I gather they aren't proposing to restrict the internet as it is, but rather make digital rights for consumers to be able to control and own the data that is given to third parties.

So Google for instance can't say like "we'll give you this for free but you have to give us your data". Instead, you'd probably need to pay directly for Gmail for instance or Google would have to pay you for access to your data. Either option might be better than what we have today.

SorteKanin , 13 days ago

It's either or, not both at the same time.

SorteKanin , 14 days ago

Maybe look into https://nginxproxymanager.com/ it makes it quite easy to set up.

SorteKanin , 16 days ago

I have this thing as well. In general I'm really picky with music, I'd say I don't like most songs. But once in a while I find one song by some artist I like and the rest of their songs I don't like. It's weird.

SorteKanin , 17 days ago

But if you don't pay directly for a good search engine, aren't they forced to use ads to fund it? And then you end up with Google. Or is there a third option?

SorteKanin , 20 days ago

6 months? I wish they were harsher. Give them significant daily fines, they'll get it done quick then.

SorteKanin , 24 days ago

So everyone here is probably like "please do it" but I do wonder how the general populace would react. Would people actually miss TikTok if it just disappeared?

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

It really baffles me when people make presentations like this. It's such an easy thing to correct as well but it just keeps happening.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

I agree that physical colocation of users is important for cohesive social media, but I don't think this is how it should be done. I also don't think it could ever take off.

People also want to participate in larger stuff sometimes (national news, international news). I think honestly the reddit model has already showed us how to handle this - just split stuff into separate communities.

You can have communities for the local stuff and people can go there. You can have communities for the bigger stuff and people can also go there if they want and they don't even need to make another user on another platform or anything.

I think honestly we just need more lemmy users to join instances that match their physical location. That's part of why I made Feddit.dk, to serve as the Danish hub of the Fediverse. We have communities for each city and you could have for each town as well once there's enough users to warrant that.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Best of luck :)

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Browsing r/all, taking in whatever was popular at any given moment. This only works on big Lemmy instances with wildly diverse federation.

I don't think the instances needs to be that big to have enough networking effect to get most of all comms. Feddit.dk for instance is relatively small but the all feed is basically identical to any other major instance.

Certainly a very small instance could have a temporary issue like this but it could be easily improved by just fetching the missing comms. And again, you can certainly find smaller instances than lemmy.world that still have all the stuff in the all feed.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

I agree that this is a problem and Lemmy could do better at community discovery. It just feels inefficient to fetch all new communities all the time, but maybe some auto-fetching in case of popular posts should happen? I'm not sure how exactly to solve this problem.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Jesus christ they even have a "Vaccine Risk Awareness Activist" character and when you ask it to repeat, it just spits absolute drivel. It's insane.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

What are you referring to? I feel out of the loop

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Gab is a far-right social media, as far as I can gather. They've made an ensemble of AI chatbot characters and this one is their default one.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Ah right of course, thanks

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Need Lemmy Enhancement Suite with this feature

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

It's a long shot, but a viable alternative to Google Maps or other proprietary mapping websites (and no, OpenStreetMap is not a viable Google Maps alternative).

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

How do I get directions with OSM?

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

!2meirl4meirl is leaking

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Check out the faq in the readme https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

The red on the cheeks really sells it as well. It could be intentional

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Uncannily relevant, I just had this happen with my Epson printer the other day. Is there any printer you can get these days that doesn't do this?

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

It’s very likely that some person I want to follow will be on Threads, and until people can convince them otherwise

You realize that it makes it a lot more difficult to convince people to come to the rest of the Fediverse instead of using Threads if people are following them and federating with Threads?

This is exactly how Zuckerberg wants you to think.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

And the only email I want blocked is a domain where every single user is malicious, not a domain run by a malicious entity which has normal people as users, who aren’t necessarily very tech literate.

You'll never get the tech iliterate people to switch to the rest of the Fediverse otherwise. Defederating Threads is about making it as bad as possible for its users - it's about hurting Meta and stemming its bad influence on the web.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

it places one way mirror between us from which only they can see thru

What do you mean by this? Even if Meta would collect data from defederated servers (I don't think they would), it would be massively more complicated than if they were federated.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

But you're giving Meta the same selling point, right? Join Threads and see all the same content. There's no point in going elsewhere then. It kinda goes both ways.

You're right that we don't know what will happen. So it could just as well be that Threads would swallow the whole Fediverse and then if Threads blocks an instance, it's like a death sentence for that instance. That's the whole embrace, extend, extinguish.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

When you defederate it stops the traffic flow from threads.net to you but the traffic from you to them is unchanged.

No, that is not how defederation works. One server defederates, traffic stops in both directions. It's not comparable to user blocking.

posts and messages are publicly available to anyone

There's a big difference between the posts being available publicly on the Web and them being sent to Threads via federation.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

when X defederates with Y, and people want to see all the content, all else being equal they will pick Y

Hmmm maybe? But I think that's a misunderstanding from a lot of users. You don't want to see all content, trust me. Defederating is not necessarily bad. In most cases, it's healthy.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Threads can still participate via comments on Lemmy. I believe they can also post to communities via hashtags?

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

You will in fact see their posts if they reply to Lemmy comments. They'll then appear as comments in Lemmy. I believe Mastodon users can also post to communities by using hashtags, though I'm not 100% clear on that.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Good on you for admitting it - we're all wrong sometimes :) take it as a learning opportunity

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

Well, for one thing, Threads is already full of ads. And I don't mean Threads ads, I mean users posting ads, like ads for their own products or services or for their audience, trying to be an influencer and all that.

But it's not necessarily the users that will be problematic. It's more that by federating with Meta, you're giving value to Zuckerberg. And I don't want to do that.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

some users will just get fed up with the demands/changes they’re making and move to an instance that is incompatible/defederated with Threads

But many users might now and then we've given Threads leverage - stay federated with Threads and give in to their demands and changes, or lose a big chunk of your users. That's not leverage I want Meta to have. So I say defederate ahead of time.

I’m strongly against people pushing their values onto others. I would much rather have individual users block that instance if they so wish instead of someone deciding for them.

I've seen this sentiment before and I understand how it can seem appealing. Why should anyone decide what any user sees? Just let every user decide for themselves.

However, there's multiple problems with that idea. Firstly, it doesn't scale. It's not sustainable to have every user block all the bad stuff for themselves before they get a sane feed. Secondly, it's not a whole solution. A single user can block an instance, but that instance will still have an influence with votes (and blocking an instance right now in Lemmy is only blocking community posts so you'll also see comments from an instance you "blocked" and this is by design). So user blocking simply doesn't do the same thing as defederation does.

Also nobody is pushing values onto others really - each user decides for themselves what instance to join. They can join one endorsed by the Fedigarden og fedipact or whatever else they want. Or they can join another one. Up to them.

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

It's not like deep fake pornography is "built in" but Stable Diffusion can take existing images and generate stuff based on it. That's kinda how it works really. The de-facto standard UI makes it pretty simple, even for someone who's not too tech savvy: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui

SorteKanin , 1 month ago

I think it's just the fact that they've additionally signed this "pact" that says they'll never federate with them or anything else meta again. See the link at the bottom of the page.

It's mostly just symbolic, a sign of commitment.