Yeah, so get this. One of those apps is a shipping company that’s close to being a monopoly. You could pick up their parcels with just a phone number but now you need account for safety. So I can’t uninstall it. I need notifications on because I’m a klutz and need reminders. And so I’m also invited to collecting some dumb coins or NFTs they sell. Discord made way into people’s lives too, they’re now dependent and screwed.

Yeah, not buying it. I’m getting spammed with „quests” from multiple apps now that got the same idea. Seems like a workaround for Apple App Store rules where apps shouldn’t be using notifications for ads, but „quests” are fine somehow. It’s always apps that need notifications and are so important you can’t uninstall them. Gee, what a coincidence.

It failed because of prohibitive cost that didn’t scale down and it’s still a toy for wealthy people, even that budget Quest VR. There are still fundamental issues with motion sickness that are just brushed off by most.

There is no guarantee ever that things will progress from where they are. People who bought into VR by now bought into modern day Nintendo Virtual Boys, which is cool but not exactly revolutionary. 20 years from now we’ll look at current technology like VR headsets from the 90s - impressive but still ways off.

There were some allegations of toxic work environment which seemed to be confirmed by couple of execs being arrested a year ago or so although I don’t think that kind of thing made gamers cancel anything.

If I had to guess why this happens on Lemmy then I’d bet on people not knowing that they get information from politically biased sources and those guys can be really good at hiding their true nature. After their opinion is formed the good old „stop liking things I don’t like” instinct kicks in and hence the downvotes. I would be lying if I said I wasn’t guilty of this, hence I can describe the process in detail. Took me way to long to realise.

You’re seeing cancel culture in action. Anything that can be defined as „woke” gets review bombed and some video game salesmen („reviewers”) pander to that crowd because outrage sells too.

It is Wednesday my dudes.

Got to watch this now, it’s another very good showing on current gen consoles from Ubisoft (from technical perspective at least).

Also happy to see that 40 FPS with RTGI mode is becoming increasingly more common. It’s feels weird that this generational leap is happening at the end of life of this hardware and hinges on a gamers having fairly modern TVs though.

Done

Avoiding non-newsworthy content might be a part of intention behind the rule but whether that makes sense depends on how you want to run a community. I try to make an effort to not assume ill intent (not always successful) and this just looks like a mod is using external list not to be critiqued for arbitrary choices and that only works if no exceptions are made.

I lack any context but if the rule is against questionable sources and a mod is able to document that the source is questionable then surely there other news outlets are reporting on that too that you can use. Unless there’s a big conspiracy against that.

I tried it some time ago. No algorithm behind it so if someone wasn’t already watching random Wikipedia pages this won’t make them do it.

As long as artists need to support themselves in a capitalist environment it’s not reasonable for us to expect them to share their content freely. If we increase the amount of those small walled gardens then big corporations are no longer in control and we can rethink how we can compensate their work but it’s not fair to skip this step.

Agreed, but I also wouldn’t mind if someone tried to work on an algorithm that would be entertaining while also being more beneficial to society. I don’t think it’s impossible to do and maybe people would be more okay with that as a replacement rather than having them quit cold turkey.

My biggest talent is stalling and I see many masters of my craft in the wild :D

I don’t think it’s entirely fair to say that all money on YouTube comes from ads. IIRC nearly half comes from subscriptions and each Premium watcher is basically worth much more than ad-supported ones. My thinking is similar to yours - creators need to host things themselves and the next step would be creating coops that optimise infrastructure costs and deal with stuff like payment processing for subs. Nebula is one, Floatplane is another but with LTT yuck. We need more, especially non-US based. And people need to sub those too.

In all honesty I don’t understand how PeerTube is supposed to scale with users once it gets content. Hosting, transcoding and streaming video is super expensive. There’s also a matter of making money from videos and without financial incentive it’ll be hard to compete with commercial solutions (in a capitalist hellholes that most of us live in). Community funding can keep up with hosting text but can barely keep up with hosting pictures, let alone something more, unless you’re an internet archive or something.

People who are on Nebula already made it in Youtube and they’re so big that they just want to make more money. They provide nice service for the money but I don’t think they will come support your revolution for free.

It’s the Intel strategy where you continue to move the goalpost as to which process node you’re currently skipping because you’re so advanced that you’re already working on the next one :D

Is that the origin of the picture? I think I first saw it on DeviantArt ages ago and used as a wallpaper for a time. I checked out A Softer World and it certainly looks similar, and interesting. Thanks!

This one makes so much sense I’m surprised it’s the first time I hear it.