[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 114 points 1 year ago

Makes no sense if it's the same premise, same major characters and basically the same recipe as the original -- which seems to be its selling point. But the mouse fucks over whoever it can.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago

Yeah what kind of linguistics dweeb doesn't understand that language is fluid and shapes with time and location.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 57 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What really bothers me is that Linus is leaning on the parasocial relationship aspect of his popularity. He acts like he's my buddy in need and not the star of a really big brand.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hopefully they realize it's not healthy for Wikipedia in long term and make a course correction.

No idea how they work internally but probably some kind of mentoring program would be in order. There's no way someone relatively new will learn all their quirks that have been developed in the past decade and too many people on the internet expect you to know everything already to be worth a shit to them.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

Like a sign that says "X days without shooting"?

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

Because they took OW1, changed very little, made it a lot more microtransactiony, didn't release a promised co-op mode that basically was the reasoning to release OW2. I'm sure there's more but that's about it.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 53 points 1 year ago

reflecting the billionaire’s life-long obsession with the letter, which is a very normal thing for an adult man to have

Loving this.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's their brand. And I'm glad it is. It's something Samsung can't copy (I presume because of the Google backbone) or attack.

(Written on a Samsung phone btw.)

Edit. I should probably add why it's good even when I'm not in their ecosystem. It raises the bar for competition and shows that privacy adds value.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 73 points 1 year ago

That's why I don't use password manager and learn every unique randomly generated 22-character password by memory. I can't remember my mother's name but at least I can log into myspace.

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Keir Johnston has appeared at the High Court in Glasgow after being charged with the attempted murder of Grace Johnston at a holiday home in March last year.

Idk I just thought this was weird so I decided to share it.

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 225 points 1 year ago

No surprise there. Weren't they banning people for posting their Mastodon/Cohost accounts or something?

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Those of you not plugged into the Mastodon community may not be aware of the predominant reaction to Instagram Threads. This started when it was merely rumored, reaching a crescendo with reports that Meta had been talking to a few of the larger Mastodon instances under NDA, presumably to encourage them not to “defederate” with Threads when it came online.1 Let me describe that reaction for you, with only mild exaggeration:

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When Meta announced Threads, their new Twitter competitor, they claimed in the very first paragraph that it would interoperate with Mastodon and other social networks based on the open-source ActivityPub protocol: The official Mastodon site responded with their own blog post to address frequently asked questions

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 166 points 1 year ago

But have you considered paying $8 a month to use features that used to be free and also associate yourself with far right?

[-] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 133 points 1 year ago

We should stop obsessing over Reddit.

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This came to me at night.

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Here (kbin), Lemmy, Tildes... I hear Mastodon had a user spike. Is there something obvious I'm missing?

I ask because I haven't felt the same mass of users that Reddit had. Obviously users have spread out, servers have been hammered, UIs have a learning curve and so on... But there might be other alternatives I haven't looked at that are worth that look.

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