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Won’t happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it’s free.

I have to imagine that anybody savvy enough to make the decision to install a third-party launcher is also savvy enough to immediately uninstall that shit.

Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild.

I don’t think Joe Francis is going to be the good guy in this scenario.

Good afternoon, Frosty.

anyone could read the code and understand how it works

“Anyone” is doing some heavy lifting here.

Your activity is actually harming the fediverse by forcing us to come up with innovative ways to throttle new users.

Why do you need to throttle users who are posting relevant content?

“Ad blockers prevented your review submission.”

No, you prevented the review submission, by taking the time out of your day to write a dialogue box that prevents submissions.

Mopeds are motorbikes.

I think the canted touchpads are a nice touch, and inline sticks are the way to go (I can’t believe Nintendo and Microsoft continue to get this wrong).

I hope he’s doing well. Thanks to the code he started, I’m on the Fediverse in the first place.

This makes me doubt the author of the article’s credibility. What exactly is the “perfect resolution” of a hand painted piece of art?

High-enough that you can’t distinguish individual pixels with your eye. At least, that’s how Apple defines their retina displays; not sure if these guys are following the same standard for that terminology or not.

It’s not necessarily about competition, it’s about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn’t necessarily mean “I want people to see this more than other posts”, just “I’d rather not be posting into the void”.

For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don’t post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren’t even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community’s posts get drowned out by everything else.

It’s a signal-to-noise issue. There are some smaller communities I’d like to keep an eye on, but the posts from those communities get drowned out by the more active ones. I miss a lot of posts that I would have liked to have seen because of this.

If they promoted it on another FOSS platform, nobody would see it.

So… it’s a custom wrapper for Bluesky?

What exactly is wrong with them, in your opinion? A game I play uses a Discord forum channel for their bug reports, and it seems to support all the features I’d need out of a forum: sorting options (date posted vs most recent/“bumped” threads), search, chronological comments, tags, media support…

The only real issue I see with Discord forums is that they’re not public, so you can’t view them without having a Discord account and joining the server. But as far as functioning as a traditional web forum, they seem to check all the boxes.

Discord literally has forums. Most official game servers that I’ve seen tend to make use of them.

This sort of shit ought to be banned.

You’re paying with your data.

If you knew about any of the four reporters that founded 404 Media, or the incredibly high quality journalism they produce, this thought wouldn’t have even crossed your mind.

If one could ever actually read anything on 404 Media in the first place, maybe one would know that. But as somebody who doesn’t have the preexisting knowledge of who founded the org or what sort of reporting they do, it’s hard to glean anything useful when the articles are cut off by a paywall.