Kinglink @ Kinglink @lemmy.world

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Yeah but "Radical"... TERFS ain't radical, nor bodacious nor totally tubular dude!

Accept everyone, that's the TMNT way!

You could say that about Facebook and yet it trundles on.

Threads will be relevant because Meta has the money to keep making it relevant.

Meta VR would have died by any other company, but Meta VR will stick around for quite a while because Zuckerberg money.

If you're already accepting of Facebook, design flaws, and privacy concerns aren't going to sway you from "The new thing".

You should watch only "Internet Historian" channel, he has alternate channels and those are of mixed quality (all far weaker). I avoid Incognito Mode like the plague, yet he links that channel off his main channel constantly

That's a great explanation. I love the idea of having an "internet historian" (other than the actual internet historian, who really doesn't talk the origins of the internet). I guess there's the meme databases but still, this is a great read.

You mean they had a financial incentive to partake?

Your example just shows how economics incentives are designed to work, but that money does come from somewhere.

I'd love to get solar but it's not economically viable to encur 20k expenses that will need over twenty years to pay off when that money can be used elsewhere

If someone gave me a Tesla I'd love it but I really don't have the cash to get a car right now and even if I did the price of teslas and most electrics are so high it's just not an option.

People think he solution here is to remove cheaper options but that won't work it will just keep people holding on to beaters far longer.

If the economics make sense to change people will change but trying to shake people or force people to make economically disadvantage choices will never work long term

My wife got a used Prius for 13K or 17k a couple years ago, it'll be more expensive now I believe, but the thing is most people don't have 13k or 17k to spend on a car. If people can't scrape together 500 dollars from their savings in an emergency, they aren't going to be able to get a hybrid or electric car for a very long time, and all legislation that tries to push people in that direction benefits the rich, and penalizes the poor when they remove options the poor can afford.

The biggest problem Lemmy has is funding, and that's going to be a continual problem.

But it's like this. Corporations can enter the space and offer their content/servers/communities for free, and people can use those servers. If people want to be on corpo servers, they can choose it, if they don't they won't be on one.

If corporations start charging for server, then the other Lemmy servers just don't pay and restrict access to those servers, people will choose if they want to pay for Lemmy (and go to Lemmy servers who pay, or the corpo servers) or more likely accept it and stop.

But like I said the problem is funding, there needs to be continual funding to run the servers they have, but I believe the goal will be to keep the servers from being bloated pieces of shit like Reddit, and hopefully that means they will be cheaper and maybe can be done through donations.

As for "Can't they buy out." Let's say I'm bad guy business, and I'll simply offer to hire you or buy your business, you never actually have to work for me, or sell me your business. The only reason something like Activision will sell their business is because Activision because Activision wants to, or really a majority of share holders want to.

Lemmy.world is owned by something or someone. If they don't want to sell to a corporation they can just choose not to. The problem is Reddit is owned by shareholders, and enough shareholders that they can be taken over.

If someone has 51 percent of reddit (Conde Nast) and someone offers A LOT of money for Reddit, they can still say no... though Conde Nast as a corporation itself has share holders themselves so if they did something stupid (Ignoring an offer for like 2-10x the valuation) those share holders are going to question it... That doesn't mean Conde Nast HAS to even take a 10x valuation (if they think the site is worth 20x, they obviously wouldn't) but that's why Reddit is able to be bought since they have to answer to the share holders and Lemmy theoretically could stay non corporate.

I got bad news... Whores have a lot of sex. And get paid for it.

I don't know what you are.

What pisses me off the most is channels I used to like, stuff like Scam Nation who now repackages all their old content as shorts. And so I unsubscribe because I don't want that level of spam.

Youtube Shorts sounds like an interesting idea, that has all the problems of Tiktok, and then clutters up Youtube. It would be SO easy for people to be able to opt out of Shorts, but that's not how it works, and Youtube's UI keeps pushing them to the point where I stop looking at my notifications.

Great work Google.

I recently started 9... and it's... Yeah It deserved most of the somewhat negative reviews, but it's still a DW game. I honestly think they should have called it something like Empires. As an open world game it's interesting and unique but it is a little too open for "DW". IT feels like a half step in the wrong direction but if they continued on and made "Dynasty Warriors 10 World" with that system and improved it, it could be something pretty unique. Just not as the main line series.

If you haven't read Romance of the Three Kingdoms you're in for a treat, I really enjoyed those books quite a bit, especially after being such a fan of the series. Getting more of the back story is great, and the characters are way more interesting.

Unless you're clicking through pages at record speed, 1 second latency for a web page and 100ms will be almost unnoticeable.

I just pulled Amazon.com, and on my computer it takes about 2 seconds for it to render, if we add 1 second of ping and it took 3 seconds to rend, I wouldn't notice it. Looking inside chrome tools, I see it takes 700ms to download the content on the front page. This is relative of course and I could go deeper (if the initial page, and the content server both were 1 second away, technically it could take 2 seconds because it needs two round trips) but that's kind of besides the point.

The main issue on the web is content generation/download, it's not the time to reach the server. Lag matters more in gaming because you're constantly talking to the server in a round trip constantly, so any latency is increased and will be more problematic. but with HTTP, you're sending a request and getting it back, it's a single round trip, you then will take time to parse that data and read it, and then when you're ready for more you're doing another round trip.

So if a server is 100ms or 1 second away you're only paying that penalty once in a while. The issue is if the website gets under heavy load and can't respond for multiple seconds or more, or fails to respond. That's more of an issue with server load, which is why I say to focus on that.

If you TRULY think this is an issue, go to your command line and run "ping lemmy.world" I get 189ms pings. Amazon gives me 79 ms pings. Google is 28 ms ping. Those levels will be unperceivable after you consider the rest of the time it takes to download and render a page.

Dynasty Warriors, They are my "Dumb fun" game. I usually just turn off my brain and "grind" even though I usually call out every game for grinding or unnecessary combat.

But something about that series makes me pick up every one and waste tens of hours just killing the same-ish soldiers over and over.

The point I'm making is "ping doesn't matter". If you want to go to a different instance that's fine, find one that seems responsive. You're using the wrong terminology/thinking when deciding which instance you want to be on.

"Ping" shouldn't affect lag, and your ping should be almost unnoticeable to you. Ping basically means the time a packet takes to the server.

For anything other than a video game, you're going to focus more on server load, and utilization. If something is overloaded (Lemmy in general is overloaded) it doesn't matter what your ping is, the server can't process as many requests as it gets and you see "Lag".

Part of the process right now is figuring out if Lemmy can keep up with the traffic, this is part of the growing pains of a new "social media" server. Best thing to do if it's bothering you is give it a few days and hope they can work something out.

You've nailed it.

But I do love how you start with the big problem: Microsoft has not bought studio and enhanced them as studios or companies. Look at what Rare has become.

I don't trust Microsoft owning companies, but I don't think them buying Activision would be a good thing for anyone but Microsoft. Ultimately Microsoft is only interested in Microsoft and the people supporting the merger to get Activision on Game Pass will turn around and whine when they increase the price after the merger is clear. Everyone on that side is self serving as fuck.

You can deny it, but have you really thought about it.

Think about American Politics. "Well conservatives are just fascists." Sure, I mean there's the party that wants to control what people say, Cancelling them if they ever said anything they don't like. Want to remove all rights from people in specific parties, and mandate how others act at all times... and then there's the republicans which are also clearly fascists.

I'm not trying to say "Republicans are better than Democrats" they're not, they're clearly not. But Democrats aren't that good either. It's a problem with a desire to control others and when one party wins, they should feel they have a mandate to GOVERN but instead there's a feeling they have a mandate to RULE or CONTROL. Luckily most politicians are somewhat sane about this, but god damn, some of the die hards on both sides have lost their mind.

Power corrupts, and Absolute Power corrupts absolutely. That's kind of a fact of being human.

If you're demanding I watch ads, it's not "free". you're demanding my time and probably attention.

I really think we need to stop with this idea that "Something is free" because no money is exchanged. Some stuff ARE free, there are repos on git, where you can download software, there are websites that ask for nothing. However Gmail, Youtube, reddit, and the rest are not "Free" just because they aren't directly asking for money.

I'll be honest, once Victoria left, AMAs weren't the same...

Seeing the people who barely held it together walk off.. I mean shit

RIF is why I'm here, I deleted it from my front page, realized I hated going to the reddit website, and looked for something better.

I know he's working on something different, for a different site, but I also hope he's considering a LIF or something like that.

You could always do this. But you'd be a damn idiot to antagonize half a potential customer base but ... Well that's one way to run a business.