I just feel bad for people who went in during Elon's "good" years (heavy quotations). He's nothing but a glorified car salesman and a verified idiot now, but for a while there, some people just wanted a more sustainable car.
It’s scale.
Scale is the enemy of social networks. All of them, including Lemmy.
Let’s say 0.1% of the population are just straight up assholes who ruin everything.
If you only got 100 people on a site, no one is an asshole.
1000 people? Well now you got that asshole Andy in the group. Fucking Andy. But we can deal with him.
But we scale up to 1,000,000? Well now you got 1000 fucking assholes to deal with!
Games console industry tries to adapt to rise of free-to-play titles
Virtual goods such as Fortnite weapons and subscription services such as Microsoft’s Game Pass have become as important to the console industry as its traditional money spinner of high-priced standalone games, marking a turning point for the $60bn business.
Console players are set to splash out $21bn on in-game items and subscription services this year — about the same as they will spend on game downloads and discs, according to research group Ampere Analysis.
Such expenditure has risen sharply since the popular free title Fortnite debuted in 2017. Gamers that year spent three times more on console software than on subscriptions and virtual items.
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"If players continue to gravitate to free games, such as Fortnite, that do not require the latest hardware, Sony will find it more difficult to sell its PS5 to all but the most dedicated of players, some analysts have argued."
Archived version of the article: https://archive.vn/032BW#selection-2369.103-2373.159
Why they watching the very end? Just to make sure everyone is happy? Plot resolution?
Infuriating?? That’s adorable!! One day you might really appreciate that finger in that shot when you think back on your mum.
While I doubt I could get my friends and family on yet ANOTHER messaging app in the year of our lord 2023.
Sup. Is a fucking brilliant name.
he sounds like a person in an abusive relationship.
"yeah, he hits me sometimes, but Jimmy's a good guy y'all! just need to give him a chance, besides... all my stuff is there, where would I even live?".
nah
Siri, while not great, handles timers, reminders, and dumbshit like that just fine without typing. I have yet to find another good use for these assistants.
This makes so much sense.
BBC wouldn't make their news site under Google Blogger... so why depend on other corporations for your microblogging?
Spin up your own server, have your own verification, then use it on your site and share outs.
That looks like the local front page... but yeah, the world is kind of shit.
subscribe to the communities that align to what you want to read and do the subscribed feed, friend!
I think they were ever only going to do it if Threads failed.
!alternativenation@lemmy.world
I love the Fediverse and have been promoting Lemmy & our alternative music community on Mastodon for over a month now. It's getting pretty active and we are sharing all kinds of music from 80s college rock to today's indie every day.
But somehow it seems lemmy.ml hasn't heard yet! Nearly 1000 subscribers on lemmy.world, but like 17 from lemmy.ml? Oh fediverse, you minx you.
Well, time to change that! I'm spreading the good word for alternative music fans to join & share.
Lemmy: !alternativenation@lemmy.world
Post from Mastodon: @alternativenation@lemmy.world
or rawdog link: https://lemmy.world/c/alternativenation
Hope to see you there!
Oh how quickly redditors forgot that r/all was packed full of porn not so long ago......
— 12 Rods – If We Stayed Alive
— African Head Charge – A Trip to Bolgatanga
— Aluna – MYCELiUM
— AMAARA – Child of Venus
— ANOHNI and the Johnsons – My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross
— Astra King – First Love EP
— Bad History Month – Delusion EP
— Bloodbound – Tales From the North
— Butcher Babies – … Eye For an Eye…
— Butcher Babies – …’Till the World’s Blind
— Chris Stamey (of The dB’s) – The Great Escape
— CIEL – Make It Better EP
— Citizen Cope – The Victory March
— Conway the Machine – Conway The Machine Presents: Drumwork The Album
— Feuerschwanz – Fegefeuer
— Fit of Body – Far From the Rhythm
— Delilah Holliday – Invaluable Vol. 1 EP
— Dominic Fike – Sunburn
— Emma Ruth Rundle – Live at Roadburn 2022
— The Far Outs – The Far Outs
— Garrett Saracho – En Medio (Vinyl Reissue)
— Golden Features – Sisyphus
— Grouplove – I Want It All Right Now
— Gus Dapperton – HENGE
— Guslit – Carnal
— Hans Zimmer – The Last Samurai (Original Motion Picture Score) (Vinyl Reissue)
— Hot Tuna – 3
— Jim O’Rourke – Hands That Bind (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
— Julie Byrne – The Greater Wings
— KennyHoopla – BLINK AND YOU’LL MISS IT// EP
— Lauren Bousfield – Salesforce
— Laurence Guy – Living Like There’s No Tomorrow, But Killing Yourself In The Process
— Little Dragon – Slugs of Love
— Local Natives – Time Will Wait for No One
— Longings – Dreams In Red
— ME LOST ME – RPG
— The Mighty Bard – Beyond the Gate
— Miles Miller – Solid Gold
— Misogi – Escape Artist
— Nita Strauss – The Call of the Void
— Noble Oak – When It Finds You
— Nothing But Thieves – Dead Club City
— Penguin Cafe – Rain Before Seven…
— Pigeon Wigs – Rock By Numbers
— PJ Harvey – I Inside the Old Year
— Projexx – Grim Mixtape: Vol. 2
— Rare Americans – Strawberries: The Story of Jongo Bongo – Act III
— The Raven Age – Blood Omen
— Sad Park – No More Sound
— The Stranglers – 4
— Taylor Swift – Speak Now (Taylor’s Version)
— Tony Allen – JID018
— Treeboy & Arc – Natural Habitat
— Various Artists – The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake
— Wham! – Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven
— Withering Scorn – Prophets of Demise
— Yawning Balch (Yawning Man and Bob Balch of Fu Manchu) – Volume One
— Yellowcard – Childhood Eyes EP
RSS is great for following blogs and sites of specific interests, like local sites, or sites about specific subjects. You get ALL the updates. For example. I live in Baltimore and have a bunch of local sites in my RSS reader.
Reddit/Lemmy, on the other hand, is a more democratically human curated and upvoted aggregator so while it hits all the popular stuff beyond the topics you follow on RSS, it will miss a lot too.
So I use both.
Feedly for hundreds of sites of interest. And Reddit and now Lemmy for the rest.
Good stuff!