I’m all for using other things, but the reality is that YouTube has a de facto monopoly on video hosting on the internet. If you want reach on the internet, it’s YouTube or basically nothing. Therefore YouTube is the best place to get YouTube users upset at YouTube.
Other companies which could compete with YouTube on scale host porn and choose not to make a “clean” version to compete.
Feels like a lot of “not inventing the wheel” - which is good? There are plenty of good wheels out there.
Network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Lemmy’s largest influxes of users have been when Reddit does something unpopular enough to warrant people looking for other places. Same was true when Reddit became popular because Digg made bad decisions, or Facebook when MySpace did.
The answer is that Lemmy almost assuredly will never be as popular, but at least its future is not dictated by the profits of a company, or censorship imposed by or on that company.
The best we can do is make Lemmy a viable alternative (it is) and ensure it is of a high quality.
I’m just adding historical context that those games were exclusives. If them being exclusive meant “the ps5 has games” then timed exclusivity didnt really help in this case.
The Brave Little Toaster.
Yeah, I know. But the AC unit dying freaked me out.
Possible, but I think that particular feature is more aimed at EU electrical prices.
The handheld PC and things like SteamOS have crossed the moat that console games used to have as a defense. The PC is coming to the living room, attaching to your TV, and playing games controller-first. The question will be how well will those games play and will they be exclusive.
The other defense, exclusive games, consoles themselves have given up. PlayStation has been publishing to PC to make up revenues thinking that it’s safe because it’s not their competitor Xbox, and Xbox bet on gamepass (and has now lost the console almost entirely, hoping to make its money back via Windows licensure).
FF7 Remake, Rebirth and FF16 were timed exclusives, though all have since left and Square Enix said “never again, it wasn’t profitable enough.”
Valve relies on Visa/Mastercard to process billions worth of transactions occur every year. They’re not going to rock the boat unless they want to risk the whole business.
Their (relative?) silence, to me, is indicative of just how bad this duopoly is, and that Valve sees no alternative worth publicly mentioning at this juncture.
Fix would be government regulation.
Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.
Fairly certain the NPC in Morrowind could theoretically be killed by a combination of his own drain health spell reflected back at him and/or - once he’s out of magicka - dying to fire shield.
No. Distribution is left to the developer.
But the silver lining is that you’re outside of a walled garden and outside of a company’s control.
Man calls a pedophile-supporting fascist who was honoring a pedophile-supporting celebrity a pedophile.
I see nothing wrong here.
Dr. Pepper
Coke Zero
Technically just a neural net, but yes
BYD uses lidar, so yeah, Tesla
At least before the fall of the republic, it was apparently common for Jedi Padawans to be locked in a cave to face a trial against their deepest fear to get a Kyber Crystal to even make their lightsaber in the first place. If they failed to conquer their fear, they died.
Edit: apparently they don’t die per se, but are meant to believe they will and also if they fail, they might be stuck there. It’s weird and still not ethical
If everybody has to finance their purchases, something might be fundamentally wrong with the economy…
Totally. It’s network effects, really. People will only leave if the content or people they follow leave. And right now there aren’t many good platforms which comparably pay creators based on watch time / play count of static media, so the creators won’t leave.