You’re welcome. Enjoy!

Try cassette beasts. Definitely scratches that itch. A great indie game.

Well, they run Afghanistan and af is the country code. They picked a domain that they thought was cute, funny or clever and didn’t consider longevity or risk. It’s on them. If I make a website. I won’t pick a silly extension that won’t survive long.

If you’re on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.

Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn’t kill it. Admin did.

I did not know that. He really is a manchild.

Damm. What colour is girl pee then?

Maybe, but I don’t think Musk is running twitter for money. He’s probably doing what every billionaire is doing. Buying media to shape public opinion. Turning twitter right leaning to build public support for conservative policies that will benefit his other business is probably the play.

Why worry losing 20bn when he could gain 50bn for SpaceX(SeX. Just seen that…) and Tesla? Sounds like a good return on investment.

Why not just use Reddit? It is huge, and mainstream?

Why are you here and what do you like about it?

Damn you, internet! I wish you was never born!

That’s even worse. When they’re hiring multiple devs from there, they cannot claim they didn’t know it existed. Also, if the product actually exists, they don’t need to see a patent filing to copy it…

Well if it was their IP, and they had it in a product, it’s theirs. They registered it over 10 years ago. Did Apple just magically come up with the same idea, or did they see and copy it?

A patent troll usually sits on patents they don’t use. This is a legitimate company with products. A small guy that cannot afford to file paperwork for all their stuff immediately shouldn’t be penalised.

One thing that is weird is that apple always has a lot of people ready to defend the big multi-billion dollar corp.

Never heard of them. We sure they’re not leaking this to build their reputation as top hackers? Surely this leak is an advertising gift to them?

I’ve been trying to bury stories that are going around that I have the biggest dick in Britain. It’s hard work.

If you leave it too long, folks will just register for another instance, and all momentum will be gone.

I wouldn’t take too long getting the rescue boat out when folk are in the ocean…

Threads users didn’t sign up, it used their Instagram account. Even if they used it once, they click across, and boom, account there and they cannot delete that Threads account after. An initial day registration does not mean a MAU. It’s like saying MySpace is huge now because everyone had an account…

Edit: Usage plumetted massively- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/14/threads-app-slump-daily-active-users-twitter-competition

I mean, they can easily flood the ratings and sure All is just Threads content, then you’re not getting involved in Lemmy/Mastodon content, you’re just talking and engaging on content sustaining Threads and your comments are probably helping engagement next to adverts displayed to users.

It isn’t a good proposition, at all.

Meta doesn’t do anything that doesn’t benefit their bottom line, especially for their ad business.

Is it? After the initial account register, it looked like it was running out of steam. I’d be surprised it lasted long without something new.

I mean, the last point is weird. They’d never say that, and do not care about the illusion of being open.

Point 1 is true.

Point 2, what makes you think federation will make millions of users want to move away, or even know folk are on another service. They’ll probably censor the word lemmy and every lemmy address to avoid folk advertising away. The fediverse will just be filled with nonsense data and they’ll pull the stuff that helps their platforms and keeps people hooked on the teet. Without that data, they may not be at critical mass to sustain Threads and it might eventually die. With that and Twitter going to pot, avoiding federation actually helps Mastodon as it provides a distinguishable separate entity that has reached critical mass and has significant good will with the user base that motivates them to keep sharing content.

I mean it’s pretty obvious I have used my account consistently for months.

You do realise you can support the concept of discussing with people that you disagree with. Echo chambers aren’t healthy, or normal, unless you’re very young and the internet has always been that way for you.

Ah, interesting. Wasn’t aware of that. Thanks for sharing.