if you only think of friends as people you interact with in real life doing things in the real world then i guess yeah for you that wouldn't fit your definition of friend
personally i think of friends as people whose company i enjoy, who i get along with really well, have a lot of things in common with, and talk with frequently about whatever we have going on in our lives or things that we like or find interesting. i've had many long-lasting, long-distance friendships with people online who i cherish very much, and i'm even in a long-term relationship that started online, and we lived on opposite coasts of the US, and i moved in with him after about a year. in terms of doing things together, for me it's mostly just chatting and playing video games, but i've met some of the people i've met online in real life before, as we make plans to get together sometimes when possible.
but i have agoraphobia so socializing irl can be difficult for me because i don't really get out of my house much, so online friends is usually my only option, so i might be a special case idk for sure. but i'd guess that a lot of people have similar experiences with online friendships
Are you saying that Ubisoft doesn't actually believe that people shouldn't own their games and that this was a hypothetical discussion that was taken out of context? Because my impression was that this was sort of a response to people complaining about subscription-based games and DRM content that makes the concept of owning games blurry.
Because if this position doesn't really represent Ubisoft, then what should have been said is whatever does represent Ubisoft. Ideally they should agree that people have the right own the games they purchase.
In my opinion someone should generally own what they buy. That's why I like GOG, which distributes DRM free games, and part of why I often pirate games especially from large companies. In my opinion the take that people should only have a license representing permission to use a product that is actually owned by a company is delusional if not dystopian, and Ubisoft should be made fun of for having that position, and their games should be pirated.
In addition to some of the ones listed in OP, I use
YouTube Auto Like - automatically likes videos you open them (optionally only when you're subscribed to the channel). If you're on a Chromium browser, Google removed this extension from their web store so you can't install it from there anymore. But you can install it manually if you want by downloading it from the Github repo here. \
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I also use the following userscripts:
Return Youtube Dislike - Does the same thing as the Return Youtube Dislike extension in the OP
Youtube Shorts Redirect - redirects Youtube Shorts to a full watch page, so you can watch them like a regular video.
Resize YT To Window Size - resizes the video player so that it fills in the entire dimensions of the browser window and moves video players to the top of the page so you can scroll down to see comments, recommend videos, etc.
YouTube CPU Tamer by AnimationFrame - reduces Youtube's CPU usage during video playback. I don't really understand the technical aspects but it's all explained in the description of the userscript. This script IS NOT compatible with SponsorBlock!
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Stuff I'm looking for (if anyone has any recommendations):
Remove duplicate videos from a playlist
display playlists in a grid layout instead of a list layout
is it possible for multiple people to use one youtube premium subscription other than the family plan? we checked the family plan but there's no way we can justify paying for it, far too expensive for us considering all our other expenses
ya, im with you there. i had a twitter account but it was mostly to follow friends and internet celebrities. i created a mastodon account when elon did elon things but my friends didnt join mastodon and while many of the internet celebrities i follow did create mastodon accounts, i dont have much interest in social media broadly so i dont engage much there without friends. im mostly online for to find funny memes. i feel i dont have much of interest to post so it's hard to find ways to engage outside of liking and voting stuff. i am much more interested in blogging tho, as at least sometimes ill want to talk at length about something but not have the room to do it on most existing platforms. i use tumblr currently to that end but id love if the fediverse had a blogging platform.
i did join the hajkey instance here though, mostly out of curiosity as i had wanted to check out calckey for a while and the blahaj instances seem like a good fit for me. but as you can see i have a tendency to ramble and im not sure even 3,000 characters is enough for me! lol
i did hear a while ago that tumblr was thinking of federating but im not sure if anything came of that
not to ramble but it might be more appropriate to call Calckey and its siblings a blogging software then, ya? excepting where individual instance admins limit the character limit to smaller limits. altho idk if there's any broadly accepted rule of thumb necessarily at what the cutoff between micro and full blogging is, but for me 3,000 characters sounds more like proper blogging so ill probably start calling it blogging instead of micro moving forward
edit: interestingly the link i pasted doesnt work for me when i click it either, idk what's happening there lol
is a fork of Calckey which is a fork of Misskey iirc. it's kinda a microblogging software not dissimilar from Mastodon but a subjectively prettier interface and most instances in my experience allow longer posts than most Mastodon instances in my experience
if you only think of friends as people you interact with in real life doing things in the real world then i guess yeah for you that wouldn't fit your definition of friend
personally i think of friends as people whose company i enjoy, who i get along with really well, have a lot of things in common with, and talk with frequently about whatever we have going on in our lives or things that we like or find interesting. i've had many long-lasting, long-distance friendships with people online who i cherish very much, and i'm even in a long-term relationship that started online, and we lived on opposite coasts of the US, and i moved in with him after about a year. in terms of doing things together, for me it's mostly just chatting and playing video games, but i've met some of the people i've met online in real life before, as we make plans to get together sometimes when possible.
but i have agoraphobia so socializing irl can be difficult for me because i don't really get out of my house much, so online friends is usually my only option, so i might be a special case idk for sure. but i'd guess that a lot of people have similar experiences with online friendships