They are absolutely the driver in this market, like it or not.

Kinda sorta hope we can federate in reddit's history at some point, like a static instance and move on. I've pretty much jumped ship, but no point in denying there's a history there.

We don't need a lot of anything bar food, water, oxygen and sex. I'm all for sensible cars Vs that monstrosity on the left, but as hobbies go - boating is not the most offensive.

They were all basically at it, it's the only way the emissions and performance numbers could be hit.

It's like someone has told them there's no karma and they've misunderstood. Also kind of misses kbin and Lemmy are federated.

Can't understand why they don't just pass through the ads, I don't want them, but I could live with them. It's this alone that makes me think they just want to kill third party apps and nothing else.

It's going to be fairly obvious fairly quickly if the big apps are nixing ads, no need to sue, just block access to the API for violation.

This

I'm not too sure I've met that many people who want to work. Most people I've met work because it's the only way to live and they work harder because it's the only way to start to get ahead.

Like would most people not rather be doing their hobbies than working?

Not to mention how long it takes a big org to migrate, even between versions of rhel. I've seen 6 -> 7 migrations happen inside the last month.

Is it surprising? There are specialists pushing nonsense to dupe people constantly, fake experts, real news branded as fake news. No one reasonably has the time to research every bit of news they see. The world is a weird place rn.

Or they accept it as a way to pay for that instance. The servers aren't free at the end of the day.

Sounds like you're trying to blackmail spez there.

You can just go get Unity or UE right now. With UE you can make a $1million before you need to pay a royalty and the tooling is substantially better than any of the tools id released back in the day. (And fwiw I think it's a crying shame id tech engines are no longer open sourced too!)

Lemmy?

Such a great tune.

I don't believe so, no. The datastream is RDS or RDBS rather than Teletext. More details here

Something has definitely gone screwy and we've definitely not gotten the balance right - but equally I'd tend to agree that QoL has substantially improved since the 70s. Air quality, many medical advances, many more people in less labour intensive jobs, safety and quality of products has also improved substantially. General societal attitudes towards women and minority groups is better as well as all the tech and toys.

Housing is messed up and there's seemingly been a shift towards the rich, the taxes imposed on the wealthiest in society has been reduced and income inequality has increased. We may or may not be more stressed (I tend to think we are) and capitalism in general has shifted from worker first to shareholder first.

The stats above definitely don't tell the whole story either, doubling productivity while reducing price, for instance, may increase access to a product to consumers with no net gain to the company and while this is almost certainly not the case in every scenario, it just shows we can't just cherry pick stats blame all of society's ills on them.

GIMP + Inkscape UI refresh and I'd fund the shit out of that.

The choice is the thing, I think. It's what made the whole Reddit thing a bit bizarre for me. Like they could've just passed the ads through the API and used personal API keys in 3rd party apps. Those content to take the ads take them and those who prefer to pay a fee can do so.

"We need to pay for this shit, it's up to you how we do it" is a much easier sell IMO than "you'll use our app and you'll fucking like it"