anthoniix

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Is Hogwarts Legacy any good? (kbin.social)
 

With all the controversy around the game, I pretty much ignored anything to do with it at launch. Since the game is on sale right now I wanted to know, is it actually any good? If it is I'd like to play it.

Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I'm conflicted because it doesn't have a headphone jack

Today is most likely some American's last day with all 10 fingers, and they don't know it in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

As I prepare to not sleep for the next two days.

Wagner leader calls for rebellion against Russian defense chief, Kremlin orders his arrest in c/news@beehaw.org
Wagner leader calls for rebellion against Russian defense chief, Kremlin orders his arrest in c/news@beehaw.org
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I honestly don't know if I believe any of this. It could be one big distraction, and I think the people in high positions of power are skeptical as well.

Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean I guess? Aside from the calling it's fine imo. UI was also easier for me to use

Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes' in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I never understood why everyone moved to discord. Regardless of this, it actually just sucks and is hard to use. Discord really gives me hope that the fediverse will succeed, just because the UI sucks so fucking much.

Was the lemmyverse/threadiverse aware that Mastodon has been convulsed for the past 2 days? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Honestly, a lot of people might disagree but, corporate involvement is essential to FOSS projects surviving. The biggest FOSS project on the planet, Linux, is literally propped up by the biggest corporations on the planet.

The only potential issue I see here is maybe Meta forks ActivityPub and it becomes a "Meta Project" or some other fuckery. Outside of that I don't see any major issues with it. If we want ActivityPub to become something greater, we're going to need corporations on board. We have strong protections in place right now with a lot of the stuff that's being used being under strong copyleft licenses, and decentralization by nature is going to allow us to opt out of a lot of the ads and tracking that takes place by being forced to use an official app.

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Gas stoves pollute homes with benzene, which is linked to cancer (www.npr.org)
 

Benzene is among the pollutants gas stoves emit into homes, Stanford University researchers show. The toxin is linked to a higher risk of leukemia and other blood cell cancers.

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Don't be discouraged by people saying these protests don't work, or by subreddits going public (kbin.social)
 

People discredit every type of protest, IRL or not. I think back to every major protest that's happened in response to some major event, and the response every time is "That won't ever work", "You're wasting your time", "Imagine caring about that".

This isn't the death of Reddit, not even close to it. Reddit may even get more popular after this. However, that doesn't mean all of this was pointless.

The Fediverse continues to grow, and that's genuinely a good thing. Every time a platform fucks up, people give X ActivityPub app a new set of eyes and continue to help developers strengthen these platforms and build up the community.

A lot of times the things we want don't happen in 1 big moment, it's a lot of continuous smaller moments that eventually form into something greater.

It's going to take a lot of effort to build out a new platform, especially one built off the concept of decentralization. I think we should continue to build our communities here, and do our best to help this platform thrive.

join-lemmy.org is promoting an instance with paedophilia in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] anthoniix@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I think morally and optically speaking, anything that endorses Loli or Shota is disgusting. On the basis of them saying they are "friendly" to that type of content, they should be delisted, regardless of if you see it as soon as you login or not.