Goddamn it, I came to post the exact same thing

He could be coming in from underground though

At this point we'll know all of Qualcomm's company secrets before their chips release...

Hot take: No.

Lemmy.world being the "main" instance is natural, and Lemmy makes it difficult to discover new communities so it's also natural that lots of discussion would be in lemmy.world, too.

There was also still an unresolved issue where some instances can disappear and take out all their communities. Remember lemmy.film? I believe the Lemmy devs once said they want to make a system to migrate communities in case something like this happens but nobody knows when it'll get added.

I think it's a platform problem, I understand that connecting to all sorts of instances is the point of the fediverse but until it becomes more intuitive and less dangerous, I'm going to just stick with the most popular communities. Attempting to move people out of lemmy.world and into other duplicate communities will only split people more.

Not a big issue IMO, admins can disable video uploads or have a small upload size limit (<1MB) and people will find a way.

Have they ever stopped? When teaser trailers are 2 minutes long you know the next ones will just spoil the entire plot.

What a disaster this is for absolutely no reason.

TL;DR:

• They will avoid monetization

• They will avoid providing step-by-step guides to play games on the emulator (I assume they mean extracting games from the console using hacked tools)

• They will avoid providing keys or circumvent DRM, you'll have to get everything from your Switch

• The devs are upset at how much attention they're getting which is kind of ironic considering the article.

"We wanted to fly under the radar at the start [...] It's already much more widespread than ideal for the current stage of development."

The video pretty much describes why Fandom is so bad and why many games are moving their wikis to alternative services, and why you should stop using it in general. Some examples include:

• Ads everywhere, including autoplaying video ads that play another ad when they're done. There are also ads sneakily inserted in the middle of articles that are related to the wiki, like a Gamespot review (Gamespot is owned by Fandom)

• A sidebar you can't remove that promotes their content

• Fandom hijacked the community's Mcdonald's wiki to turn it into a giant advertisement

• Accounts that are 4 days old can bypass restrictions and easily vandalize pages

• Fandom sometimes introduces things nobody wants, such as AI generated answers that are usually wrong, take up the top half of the page, and with no way for wiki admins to remove it. They removed it after a lot of backlash but still...

• When people fork their wikis to other sites, fandom refuses to let admins delete their old wikis. This makes new wikis difficult to start because Fandom usually ends up as the top result on search engines, even if they're old abandoned wikis.

I can really understand YT wanting to push ads because I know how expensive their servers are and all that, but I just can't get over how many ads there are. Two ads before the video starts is already pushing it, and having ads in the middle (which can be many times depending on the video) is far too much. If they crack down on adblockers I'll likely use alternative frontends like piped. No way I'm watching 6+ ads in one sitting.

50,000 reviews now. It's a shame, I used to play OW1 a lot even after they stopped providing new content for it. Came to OW2 and I just couldn't be arsed to grind for characters I don't have unlocked. You need to win 35 games, and since there's a basically forced 50% winrate that means you need to play 70 games to unlock a character each time. Wanted to play Ramattra, saw he's locked, uninstalled and didn't look back. The monetization is terrible. The balance feels worse than it's ever been.

This wouldn't be such a problem if they didn't literally SHUT DOWN OVERWATCH 1 to shove people into the cash shop grind sequel

So tired of this dumb take. Reddit was never going to die, but the point is enough people cared to leave that alternative platforms like Lemmy are viable now. The Fediverse as a whole is getting more and more support every time a company does something stupid, so people that genuinely care and left Reddit did win.