This can start a death spiral - the more cities & ports are banning cruise ships in the Mediterranean, the more traffic the other cities will get. That will increase the problems there, leading to demands to also ban cruise ships there and so on.
Those fake download buttons go way back - they were around in the late 90s. In a quarter century the ad industry hasn't managed to block this easy to detect scam. I mean - how hard can it be to not allow ads that are just a big button with "download" on them? Therefore I never will deactivate my adblocker. Fuck them.
This shows how unfair the tech landscape is. The Kickstarter is currently at 45000$. Meta & Co generate that in seconds through their advertising or some billionaire gains that through investments in under a second.
Never use a "for-profit adblocker". Ublock Origin is free, open source and therefore won't fuck you over. You can guess where this "profit" is coming from when you're not paying for your "for-profit" adblocker
Don't worry about YouTube - according to alphabets filings they account for ~10% of Googles ad revenue. Google is posting record profits every quarter, so they should manage.
It gives manufacturers a blueprint for their devices. You will see a lot of handhelds running SteamOS from different manufacturers. You will also see a lot of small "gaming boxes" with SteamOS to plug in your TV. That's great!
Game Developers will have one distribution to test their games on. One of the bigger problems linux had before SteamOS was the big clusterfuck of different distros. Great for users, but a big headache if you're developing for it. Now you can say "it runs on SteamOS", test on SteamOS and you don't have to deal with bug reports from people running RedStarOS
It's Valve. It's a company. They are the biggest store selling games and they are building their moat to protect themselves against Microsoft, Apple, Epic & Co. That not exactly great for users, but also explains why Valve is doing this linux push. To prevent Microsoft from abusing their Windows monopoly to crush them
The biggest problem with such a clause is that it is hard to define "evil", even if it seems clear to you. Some people think that abortion is evil, so are abortion clinics banned from Json? What about the military and weapon manufacturers? Killing is evil, but you all know how the discourse about the military as national heroes that can't be evil in the US goes. What about a service like X - is it evil? Can you define "evil" for a surveillance tool that brands itself as ad tech?
That also does mean that photobucket is training their fucking AI on my old account, which is full of Memes and Gifs I totally don't have the copyright to. Some of them might even be from Disney movies.
Yeah, I really don't understand why people are so confused. From a practical perspective your username is username@instance.tld and that's it. You're on some server and can simply follow that guy@mastodon.social and you will see the posts.
"Logged out Guests" is everyone who gets linked to a thread, who was send an video on Twitter and so on. And also take a look at the definition of the logged in users:
EU Active Recipients of the Service - Average between August 1st 2023 - January 31 2024
So you do count as active EU user if you have logged in between August and January with an IP address from the EU. That should even include some tourists.
I would question your focus on growth. Yes, we all want this place to succeed. But do we really want this unlimited growth like Facebook, Reddit and all those other companies? Small communities are great, they give you a connection between users, they spark friendships and great discourse. Those are great. Yes, they are smaller than those multimillion user subreddits, but we've all seen those big subreddits slowly burning down. Dying to bots, to marketing spam, to low effort, popular comments, to reposts, to karma farming, to US politics. We've seen subreddit after subreddit dying to moderator burnout - because big subs are really hard to moderate, people will burn out. They are sacrificing their free time to deal with trolls, shills, putins guys and receive no compensation for that.
So maybe ... let's don't replicate Reddit? Let's focus on creating small, helpful communities and people will come.
If it is counting website visits, I'm wondering how they are filtering out bots using selenium on a linux system to crawl their sites. That should be a huge amount of traffic
You should remove old posts & comments from every site you post to on a regular basis. There is no reason for those pictures from 2007 being on Facebook. Your old Twitter comments from 2011 might bit you in the ass in a few years. Nobody in their right mind is looking at your 2014 Instagram posts and you don't want people out of their right mind seeing those. Why should that comment about Obamas election still be available for the world? Just nuke your old stuff on a regular basis - nobody looks at it and if people are searching through your old posts, they want to harm you.
This can start a death spiral - the more cities & ports are banning cruise ships in the Mediterranean, the more traffic the other cities will get. That will increase the problems there, leading to demands to also ban cruise ships there and so on.