Fucking stop with this conspiracy theory already, i’m reading it for the third time this thread. As if CEOs can’t make bad decisions and there has to be a “realll11” reason.

“Yeah sorry boss, i didn’t actually read the email, instead i had an AI summarize it for me and it got a key detail wrong. Anyway what’s a couple thousand dollars in lost sales right”

Dude i remembered six months in advance and still lost my account because the process was a disaster. I haven’t played it since.

The life expectancy of 75 is an average (of the US population i assume), billionaires are likely to live longer

Just in general villages aren’t sustainable, even on flat ground. They will absolutely get overrun by zombies within a few nights unless the player intervenes.

Also, if i recall correctly, the butcher’s hut has their smoker generate with a solid block above it; this is a problem because villagers can’t use job site blocks that have a solid block above them. So this butcher eventually becomes a regular villager.

So in a few different ways, villages as they are generated are unsustainable. And there’s too many of them, there’s an argument that the world feels way too populated where the vibe of Minecraft’s world once was sheer solitude

This is the magnet i’ve got:

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:0e1610f5c681bbe8e908ddb7f73dc890899994f4&dn=gta%20v%20source%20code&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce

I actually don’t have a torrent client installed right now so i haven’t checked if this is correct, you tell me lol

GTA6 doesn’t release until 2025 so there’s even time for them to make the game great while it’s still the latest in the series.

At the same time, the hacking problem in vanilla GTA:Online is going to get even worse now than it already was.

Overall, it’d say this is good for the likes of FiveM and bad for the vanilla game?

I feel strongly that we should defederate, but i really like your reasoning for being neutral. The fediverse is currently a small community of advanced internet users who see themselves as separate from mainstream users, and the temptation is to gatekeep.

Since 2010 i’ve made three Facebook accounts, deleted one and never use the other two. Active users would be a more useful metric.

It’s been commented on before that, for its size, Twitter has a disproportionate influence not just on the internet but even on politics. This is still the case today because no good alternatives have emerged for the mainstream yet.

Shifting the power from a CEO to an instance admin is a massive improvement.

One has autocratic control over the entire site, potentially hundreds of millions of users, investors breathing down their neck, server infrastructure, and other systemic pressures; meanwhile, a fediverse instance admin has autocratic control over nothing but their own instance, a few thousand users at most, with the only money and hardware involved being their own.

The fediverse is incredibly more horizontal and decentralized than any corporate social media, the improvement is massive. And i’m a believer that vertical structures and concentrations of power are at the root of a lot of problems in society, so this is gravy to me.

But yes, it’s worth remembering that it’s not completely decentralized, and admins still have absolute power over their instance. My Mastodon instance admin doesn’t want us to use the name GIMP to refer to the open source image manipulator; they say “gimp” is a slur aimed at disabled people, which i’ve never heard before in my life.

This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.

And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.

I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There’s even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can’t be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.

But it wasn’t designed this way for whatever reason, i’m sure there’s good reasons but it’s hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i’m not logged in, even though this “place” is still on Lemmy.

It’s the same thing that makes any social media attractive: everybody else is there and it’s where things are happening. This critical mass of users is the hardest thing for a website to gain and the hardest to lose.

I think when they say ‘illegal content’ they mean, like, drugs and terrorism. Piracy probably ranks pretty low on the list.

Now yes the definition of piracy technically fits in the definition of ‘illegal content’, but just because two definitions intersect doesn’t mean you will get the logical consequences. The word of the rules is one thing, the rules in practice is another, so i think you can get away with a lot regardless of instance.

Besides, do the rules apply to the instance where you have your account, or to the instance where you’re posting/commenting? I genuinely don’t know