Well kbin.social and beehaw.org have both gotten the hug of death over the last 25 minutes so that's fun haha. Might have to hop over to a smaller instance to spread the load out

Musk set a goal of making half of Twitter's revenue subscription-based, but his revamped Twitter Blue subscription service got off to a slow start. As the NYT report said, reversing the decline in advertising "is crucial because ads have long made up 90 percent of the company's revenue."

Well it looks like he's well on his way to succeeding in that goal if the ad revenue keeps dropping

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8PYE8A-WEw

This guy has a pretty good video that discusses it. The short answer is that Atari in the 80s had filed a case in court and got the NES CIC chip code, and made an equivalent Rabbit CIC chip for their bootleg games (he goes more in detail about all of that). Later on the homebrew community struggled to reverse engineer the NES CIC chip or get it to dump it's CPU instructions. However they found out Atari's Rabbit one would dump the CPU instructions that were equivalent to the ones NES CIC used. So they used those instructions to reverse engineer the chip, which allowed homebrew games to be developed for the NES with the reverse engineered homebrew chip

That fact that's considered a boomer take makes me sad

I think it might serve it's own niche. I heard the microblog tab makes it a bit nicer to see content from mastodon users that someone is following. so it could develop to be like a hybrid lemmy/mastodon type of tool. But I haven't read too much into what kbin is aiming to be

Most of my twitter engagement comes from links on reddit funny enough (usually sports related). There's still a few people im interested in following as well so i'll poke my head in here and there. But yeah i certainly don't blame people for leaving the platform entirely. I just try to steer clear of the toxic stuff (which is very tough if you spend longer than 5 minutes on it)

It'll normalize a bit and you'll start seeing more diverse content. Some will quit reddit cold turkey, some will do what i do and hop back and forth, some will just go back and deal. I like it here though so im sticking around at least

I haven't completely left, and to be honest the only way I'd completely leave is if the niche communities I cared about died (or were active here). That being said I've noticed my reddit usage has plummeted over the last week. I used to basically live on that dumb site and now I only check it maybe once or twice a day for a couple minutes

I have front end and back end experience but work has me kind of bogged down this week. If nobody has stepped up by Sunday I should be free to start taking a look at it at the very least.

That's the impression I got from the devs and admins here, but I'm not certain my impressions are correct or what kind of impact external users posting to beehaw communities impacts beehaw's instance

There's one hosted on lemmy.ml, might be better just to use one another community has already hosted and has subscribers for: ![email protected]

Hi from beehaw! Welcome to the fediverse and glad to have all of you join us!

This is a cop out answer. I tried Jerboa but wasn't a big fan. That may change in the future. But I feel currently the best way to experience Lemmy on your phone is to do the following:

1. Install the firefox app from the app store
2. Go to your Lemmy instance on firefox
3. press the 3 dots (where you can view bookmarks, history, etc) and click on "Add to Home screen"

When you click on the Lemmy icon that's added to your home screen on your phone, it will open up the Lemmy web app (seperate from the firefox browser). It works super nice on mobile from my experience so far, and has a sleek design.

It depends on the game. Like if it's an online only game, then of course that makes sense. But a single player game, or even a game with a single player mode requiring always online is and will always be dumb.

Diablo 4 not being designed for offline solo play as well (like D2 and I think even D3 was) is annoying though.

I'm here, hopped over a few days ago! It's a good time, though I do still switch between here and reddit (there's a few niche subreddits I can't quite let go of haha)

I quite liked them at first but how many do we need? It's become so over saturated and I've long burned out of the genre.

Around then I feel is when spam bots on the site started to become really rampant too. I could be mistaken though

I need some more sports communities. NFL, CFB, football/soccer, NBA, MLB, Hockey, etc. A lot of the very niche ones like certain anime (r/onepiece, r/kingdom, r/hunterxhunter) or book (r/asoiaf, r/stormlight_archive) or game (r/deadbydaylight, r/stellaris, r/EU4) probably aren't going to get high enough populations to exist here so i don't expect it. But I need the sport specific ones

No I don't think it will. I would be shocked if Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, etc etc ever truly went away. If people remain dedicated to improving and promoting the fediverse it could carve out it's own space in the social media landscape. And once that happens you never know what the future holds. But I'd be surprised if it took over everything in the space

Sweat is kind of unavoidable (especially where I live where it gets very humid). Cold beverages (drink plenty of water), stay in the shade, jump in a pool (not an option for everyone, sometimes ill just splash cold water on my face), AC is wonderful (also not an option for everyone), or at least turn on some fans and get some airflow on you.