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It covers Apple/Google tax. They didn’t want to have lower revenue on mobile or go the Spotify route.

Or limit copyright terms to ~20 years and repeal Section 1201 (together with 512 for good measure). That would cover far more than just old games.

You can’t be both a small community and replace for profit social networks. I thought the point of all this was the second one.

This type of reporting is super counterproductive imo. When people read “the planet’s fucked, no way to fix it now” a lot of them either give up and stop caring or become violent extremists. The right way is cautious optimism and busting myths - “here’s why public transport doesn’t suck” or “we need to build more solar panels” or “nuclear plants aren’t dangerous”.

Just let people build more housing. In most American cities it’s either totally impossible or so expensive only millionaires and big real estate companies can afford it. There’s no reason for a permitting process that takes 5 years or for single family zoning, other than homeowners self interest and racism.

There’s no way to enforce that. Bots can change IP address and not all instances have a dmca page.

With Proton most games run with no issues and just as fast as on Windows. Those that don’t are because of anticheat, weird launchers or invasive DRM. I still have a Windows partition for those games and Windows only tools but haven’t used it in months.

Valve has a pretty unique flat structure that could protect them from a corporate buyout, even more if Gaben decides to transfer ownership into an employee trust and turn it into a full co-op when he leaves.

Even in the US there’s no law against hosting encrypted files. They could be liable if they knew a specific file was illegal/pirated and didn’t take it down but a recent SCOTUS case (think it was Twitter v Taamneh) set the precedent that general knowledge of illegal activity is not enough.

Some communities only exist on Reddit. There’s nothing wrong with using it as long as you have an ad blocker and don’t pay for premium or awards. I’d even say it’s the right thing because you cost them money.

Mint is very opinionated and made explicitly for less technical users. If you have basic command line skills (or you’re willing to learn) Fedora gives you more choice and in my experience it’s actually more reliable than Debian based distros.

This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don’t have money wouldn’t destroy everything like in RARBG’s case.

Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.

These are all fast, violent and kind of similar to each other:

• Broforce is a platformer with fully destructible levels where you save the world from Satan’s terrorist army. It has more explosions than a Michael Bay movie.
• Hotline Miami and its sequel are tactical top down games about shooting up houses. You die a lot but restarts are automatic so it’s no big deal.
• Katana Zero is like Hotline Miami if it was a platformer. You’re a cyber ninja who can slow down time and reflect bullets with his katana. The story is interesting and very emotional.
• Ghostrunner is Katana Zero but 3D.

Bluesky is working on persistent identity with a DNS based scheme. You still have instance accounts but they’re optional and posts reference DIDs so getting kicked out won’t break mentions.

It doesn’t appear automatically on related magazines (would be a nice feature though) but you can link magazines from other instances like this: /m/lemmyworld@lemmy.world. You can subscribe to them and see them in /m/all like they’re part of Kbin.

Once again, America’s most successful export is right wing insanity.

None so far. But I’m also for free speech and think mods should only block the worst of the worst like CP or extreme racism. Conspiracy theories and ordinary bigotry/extremism (not directed at a specific person) are fine.