Being in control of who sees my post. Lemmy still lacks more granular post visibility like Mastodon does. If I restrict a message to followers on Mastodon, I know just they would see it, and so would their current instances which are much smaller and fragmented. Compared that to any social media where that’s going to easily be tracked on both sides. Federating with threads doesn’t change this. Also as you said, lack of analytics is nice. Privacy could definitely be improved though. Mastodon direct messaging is still weird and really should use e2ee.

Sick, I get tons of more interesting content while being with a Mastodon instance I trust, a nice FOSS client to explore the content, and keep my privacy! If this actually bothered me, I could simply click the three dots and block the instance, so surely that shouldn’t be a big deal, right?

It’s a necessary sacrifice to push more ponzi schemes

I use Firefox btw

I’ll just use AdBlock and get best of both worlds. You also have no idea what kagi is doing with your data, it’s inherently eventually unprivate since it relies on a login. There is nothing wrong with ads, and they keep the service free and able to use it anonymously. The search results on free search engines are also the product here, since they only get paid from using them for results. All products require a userbase so that doesn’t even make sense.

It’s absolutely free to just not be a huge racist

This is very specific and niche without a good reason to exist, so I doubt this exists.

Cool I guess. Doesn’t really affect me because I use a custom domain, but I love the product and have been using tutanota for like 3 years now.

Smaller number on the advertisment really

Mozilla’s site boycotting this law:

https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/

Deja vu

Those accounts are already being used for that purpose and are sold on underground forums

I don’t see the issue of this. Usernames aren’t property.

Good ass year for gaming, we don’t get to say that too often

It didn’t change

Oh nooo. I’m going to be devastated all the way over here on my Linux desktop and steam.

Yeah it’s just called Twitch now

Not if they still suck ass

Why doesn’t the free market just solve this?

If their work gets flooded then wouldn’t that decrease incentive to produce it?

The issue is their privacy violations. Let’s not be China where we restrict and track Children’s time usage.

multiplayer networking is something that absolutely takes longer then just a few weeks

$70 for Zelda TOTK, $60 of Baldurs Gate 3, $20 for Factorio. All these games were 100% worth the money.

The actual fedi experience for a non techy:

1. Search Mastodon app
2. Choose a Mastodon app, which one is the official, which one is the best, there’s so many!
3. Instances? Why can’t I just sign up with Mastodon, what’s going on?
4. Okay, why are these all different rules, what does this mean, and why are they all different?
5. What am I actually signing up for? Who owns this instance, which I don’t understand the concept of? Will it randomly shut down?
6. Who am I giving this personal data too?
7. Okay, how do I find content, why is my feed so boring?
8. Okay I clicked somebody’s link and it takes me to a different website, why can’t I like/reply/follow? Where am I?

At each one of these steps, there’s a new learning curve. If it’s not easy enough for your grandma, then it needs improvement.

That high barrier of entry is going to automatically keep out most non-techy people, and they tend to be a big source of entertaining content out there. Generally if you discount any bad UX as “takes only a bit effort to learn” that just means it’s not user friendly and needs a lot of improvement.

Think that’s becoming more obvious, as the general census outside of our fedi bubble is also that it’s becoming a racist shit hole.

I think the UI/UX is really good now, and comparable to Twitter, and better then Threads/Bluesky. Unfortunately most don’t get that far, because onboarding on the fedi is still a very big pain point and the very first thing people have to overcome. Also actually using the fedi, people linking other instances and whatnot really breaks the experience when you wonder why you’re suddenly on an identical looking site but are signed out. I think decentralization is simply a requirement for freedom, but also it is a confusing concept for onboarding that we haven’t quite solved yet. I’m optimistic that these things can improve though.

I immediately know Morrowind would be the top. The game has not aged well.

well I hope there’s more people like you to counteract me, cuz I never do that lol

It’s on my radar

Then people would report it as a bug that the game is too quiet

Yeah, sites like peertube will never catch on besides any small techy circles. Any alternative will have to be centralized, that’s the only way they’ll get ad companies to their platform. Without ad companies, creators will have to revenue and no incentive to keep making videos on that platform.

I’m sure other people don’t mind ads. Yeah fuck that, I’m gonna ad block till the day I die.

It had nothing to do with trust or concern over privacy, that is still a vastly minority opinion otherwise these services would die overnight. Metaverse failed because it never even was a thing or a concrete idea that could be explained.

It never even existed and was this ambiguous buzzword that got way too much traction.

Why would they have to do that

Why do you assume they’d change anything besides modern QoL stuff like that

Where are all of these assumptions coming from that they have to change stuff?

I have no idea why you think that, it’d make it much better. The environments, the characters, the cutscenes will all be much better in a remake.

I used to self host Bitwarden, but didn’t want the hassle of securing it and updating it properly and consistently. So I just pay $10 for bitwarden premium and I get to support the company.

Not to mention you’re paying for it, where the goal for making videos to to get paid lol. Peertube has no ability to monetize, so even if the hosting was somehow solved, the monetization would prevent it from taking off.

Haven’t they said the same thing about the last 10 adocalypses