Good news: This will result in more average-user understanding of the fediverse, getting past the consistent issue of people not understanding it. It will increase the Fediverse’s usershare by a considerable amount. And to top it all off, it will probably cause a snowball which will make the Fediverse as a whole eclipse twitter.

Bad news: This is being done by facebook, willingly. Any company that is taking action like this is doing so for their own benefit and no one elses. This may be detrimental to the Fediverse in the long run if users opt to all just jump on to Threads because of some obnoxious ‘Embrace, Extend, Extinguish’ tactic they may or may not pull in the future.

I swear reality forked in 2020 and this is the bad ending timeline.

Which they claim is illegal and a violation of the DMCA

If you can own nothing, then nothing is theft.

‘LinkedIn’

LinkedIn is as much Social Media as talking with your manager is Socializing.

It’s really plastic and fake feeling there, more so than anywhere else.

Okay but are we gonna ignore the obvious and lazy AI generated article image?

Someone typed in “Intel Arc GPU Driver” and got a literal truck with a second crate on stilts.

I guess it took some effort to edit the proper labels and iconography on.

We’re in the “dropping the act” phase of capitalism.

This is just standard monopoly-speak these days.

Next week: EU to ban web browsing, for security.

Seriously, why is the EU such an insane flipflop, going from one side of the political spectrum to the other in as little as a few hours sometimes?

Didn’t he already write a public letter explaining how what they did does reveal ads, but that it was unfair because they went ad hunting and searched for ads on a page?

Boohoo, just because they over-searched to see it happen, means that it can and does happen.

This is a failure on your part, not theirs. This is how scientific research is conducted.

Not that you understand science or handling failure, Elon.

All of those green carpets have glowstone or a jack-o-lantern under them.

That distributes light and keeps mobs from spawning.

The light isn’t visible in the shader but it is with the shaders off.

Rethinking Voxels

https://modrinth.com/shader/rethinking-voxels

Damn, if only the systems your phone network were ran on hadn’t been forcibly closed source and scared good devs from interacting with you because of your sue-happy nature regarding BSD/Unix.

No, a UPS uses at least 1 Lead-Acid battery, not LI-ION.

Sweet, Sweet, Linear Algebra

Okay, I’m genuinely confused about the NextCloud hate.

I’ve been using it for a month, and It’s literally had 0 issues.

Nothing about it seems unstable or slow. I’m 99% certain if you’re having issues with nextcloud, it’s a hardware issue.

IF you're going to run your self-hosted server to run a minecraft server, get a webclient front-end. Even though it's not FOSS and therefore a no-no with most lemmy users, AMP from Cube Coders is a great option, it starts a flat $10 fee for a permanent license. It has some fantastic features for remote backup among supporting other games.

However, if you're a bit concerned about that there is Pterodactyl, which I've heard good things about, but I went with AMP because it supports other game servers like GMOD.

Rumble is functionally on par with YouTube in terms of video player and not having ads.

But Rumble is a Fascist cesspool filled with people who ran from YouTube when they implemented such controversial rules as “don’t say racial slurs” and “don’t spread misinformation.”.

Rumble has been funded by mostly Right Wingers and an agreement with Trump.

I fear more that YouTube's harder push on forcing ads to users will result in a user-base exodus to Rumble.

The amount of comments I've seen on various YT videos about how YouTube is breaking adblockers and forcing ads on users while making it a TOS Violation, where the comment says something like "I'll just move to rumble, lol", is worrying.

The only way Minecraft becomes useless to me is it Microsoft kills mods or kills unofficial launchers.

Their official launcher is dog shit, and mods keep the game going in content droughts.