If Steam puts up a bunch of new Agreements, and you refuse to accept, you'll continue using the non-updated version - correct?
In theory you could keep using the service that adheres to the old agreement - but they will only provide the service under the new agreement. So effectively, no.
Unfortunately, Diablo 3 is an online game - even singleplayer. In case of starcraft, it's even worse - the only reason for it to be online is multiplayer (fair enough) and drm (boo!).
Yeah, I suppose that sucks if you never stopped to think about it.
In my case, it's the reason I never bought Diablo 3 - when they turn an offline game into a mandatory online game, I figured that sooner or later they'd pull something like this.
Me neither. Recommendation engines already were a closed box that were being gamed to influence people's opinions. This just removes one attack vector from it, and, as I understand it, it's optional as well. It would be even better if there'd be more genres to block imho.
My last few laptops have been Tuxedo. Can heartily recommend. The tux key instead of the windows logo is a very nice touch. The first ones were 13", and their tiny fans could be rather loud during normal operation, but now I have a 15" and it's a dream.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that since LW will federate with them, any content they host, will end up on meta.
For example, this discussion we're having right now is on !technology@lemmy.world. So it doesn't matter whether our own instances have defederated meta - our posts and comments here will bring them value. Directly, in the form of content. And indirectly, in the form of processable data for machine learning, shadow profiles, etc.
Quite simple, aniki. The feeds were ordered by hot, new, or top.
New was ORDER BY date DESC. Top was ORDER BY upvotes DESC. And hot was a slightly more complicated order that used a mixture of upvotes and time.
You can easily verify this by opening 2 different browsers in incognito mode and go to the old reddit frontpage - I get the same results in either. Again - I can't account for the new reddit site because I never used it for more than a few minutes, but that's definitely how they old one worked and still seems to.
While this is true for Facebook and YouTube - last time I checked, reddit doesn't personalise feeds in that way. It was my impression that if two people subscribe to the same subreddits, they will see the exact same posts, based on time and upvotes.
Then again, I only ever used third party apps and old.reddit.com, so that might have changed since then.
Yups. Lemmy.world is the biggest instance that hasn't pre-emptively defederated from Threads. That's problematic, because it's also the biggest content provider for Lemmy. Ruud & Co are really dropping the ball here.
Situation 1:
Person A annoys person B.
Person B "mutes" person A.
Person A rants at Person B, gets no reply, and moves on.
Situation 2:
Person A annoys person B.
Person B "blocks" person A.
Person A notices Person B has blocked them, logs on to an alt account, and annoys them from there.
One of these methods defuses harassment, the other has a far higher risk of escalating it.
I'm curious about what makes people think the second method would work better.
Personally I find it far more important that it's not run by a company that will try its hardest to track your every movement on the web, but to each their own, I suppose.
In theory you could keep using the service that adheres to the old agreement - but they will only provide the service under the new agreement. So effectively, no.
Unfortunately, Diablo 3 is an online game - even singleplayer. In case of starcraft, it's even worse - the only reason for it to be online is multiplayer (fair enough) and drm (boo!).