I have issues with the Green's leadership and naive infighting, but this policy could improve our housing stock, help kerb the cost of living crisis, and potentially stabilise our insanely overinflated housing market. All sorely necessary.
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Talent is mostly a myth. You have to push though the part where you suck to get good at anything. Pick a thing and stick with it. Even 10-20min a day of practice and you'll see results. With music the hard part is getting to the point where you can just 'play' but you're young and you have more time now than you ever will again. Pick a thing and suck at it. Keep doing it anyway until you suck less. One day you'll find even though you still think you suck someone else compares themselves to you and is jealous of your 'talent'
I have it set as default but Thunder seems to ignore that and use it's own browser apparently. I have a VPN ad block running as well most of the time but shut it down cos I had low battery. Seeing a relatively mainstream previously respected site acting like that shocked me after all this time. It feels like being on a dodgy porm site in the 90s.
This is the pcgamer website without adblock!
I discovered this this morning as I was trying out a Lemmy app (thunder) instead of my ad blocked Firefox and followed an article link.
In less than 600 words there were:
- 3 full page ads to dismiss
- an auto playing video taking up 1/4 of the screen that follows as you scroll
- a sticky animated footer banner
- and a half page animated ad between each paragraph.
Fuck that. Fuck any organizational that does that to it's product or has that level of contempt for it's users.
I support content creators but ad block is necessary for safety, privacy, and the overall usability of the Internet.
Good on them. I hope others follow suit. As an aside, I recently switched to a lemmy app instead of using my ad blocked browser, and holy shit PCGamer's website is an unusable dystopian nightmare. You have to read the article through a tiny letterbox of multiple competing videos and across the short article there are three full page ads to dismiss. Fuck that.
Here's the full article text to save you a click.
If you want official updates from the Minecraft dev team, you better not look on Reddit. A post from a Reddit user bearing the name sliced_lime and a flair indicating they are the Minecraft Java Tech Lead (almost certainly Mojang's Mikael Hedberg) announced yesterday that Mojang would no longer be posting official content to Reddit, in the wake of that platform's response to protests over changes to its API.
"As you have no doubt heard by now, Reddit management introduced changes recently that have led to rule and moderation changes across many subreddits," read the post, before announcing that those changes have led Mojang to "no longer feel that Reddit is an appropriate place to post official content or refer [its] players to".
The events are only obliquely referred to in the post, but it seems the move has been sparked by Reddit's crackdown on protests against recent changes to its API that would, in essence, kill off third-party apps that let users access the site.
Subreddit mods have spent the last few weeks mounting various campaigns against Reddit's corporate leadership, either "going dark" by turning the subreddits they oversee into private, invite-only communities or else marking them as NSFW, meaning Reddit can't sell ads on those pages. Reddit responded by pressuring disgruntled mods, and in some cases ousting and trying to replace them.
In practice, the biggest impact of this departure will be the end of the subreddit's official changelog threads, where the subreddit's 7.4 million Minecraft fans and players can pore over official updates in granular detail and offer their feedback directly to the devs who hang out there. Sliced_lime emphasises that players are, naturally, "welcome to post unofficial update threads going forward," and can always "visit [Mojang's] feedback site at feedback.minecraft.net" or else contact it via social media.
User reaction has been pretty understanding, which probably only highlights just how angry everyone is with Reddit's leadership right now. The top-voted comment on sliced_lime's post, from DamageBooster, just says "Understandable" before asking where else users can access official changelogs.
Still, even if there are other avenues to reach Mojang, it seems fairly dramatic for a game as incomprehensibly massive and significant as Minecraft to cut off Reddit as one of its official ports of call. It's reminiscent of advertisers fleeing Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk's messy assumption of leadership at that company. Time will tell if Reddit's leadership will take any notice, though (I can't say I'm optimistic).
I've reached out to Microsoft to ask if any more of its studios are going to follow Mojang's suit and cut off Reddit as a source of official communication, and I'll update this piece if I hear back.
For now, I think this is a one-off. There's no sign of any other Microsoft studio doing anything similar so far, so this seems more like a situation that has personally aggravated sliced_lime (and presumably their fellow Mojang devs) than a Microsoft-wide initiative. But who knows? Perhaps one of the biggest companies in the world will take some time off fighting multiple national market regulators at once to direct its ire at Reddit executives. If that doesn't get their attention, nothing will.
I suspect that may have something to do with kbin.social's federation not working during it's initial growth period. Lots of users joined up but could only subscribe to local communities. The more we embrace federated content the smaller the differences between each platform/instance.
Kbin and lemmy are just software for creating and viewing the same kind of content. Would you be 'sad' if someone sent you a document created in libreoffice when you use OpenOffice? No you'd just open it in the software you prefer. You can use either tool to participate in exactly the same way. It doesn't matter whether a discussion is hosted on a server using lemmy or Kbin, that's the beauty of federation. That is to say Kbin and lemmy aren't separate communities. Each instance is it's own thing, but is mostly just a portal to take you wherever the conversation is happening. Totally agree with you on formatting links to make sharing as easy as possible. Hopefully down the line both platforms will be able to recognizer and translate each other's link formatting.
You can search for a magazine by typing in a keyword like ‘history’. The search results will bring you magazines from kbin.social and the websites federated with it that have the keyword ‘history’ in their names or descriptions.
Something you should probably add about searching for magazines is that the search can only find magazines that someone else from your instance has already subscribed to.
If you go to https://browse.feddit.de/ and search for 'history' you'll see there are 21 results. So before creating a new magazine be sure to check the wider fediverse for a similar one.
To add them you can visit them and then copy/paste the url into your kbin instance's search bar, then browse to the magazine from kbin and click 'subscribe'. That will then make the community/magazine discoverable for others in your instance and it will start appearing in 'all'.
Unfortunately I don't think there is a platform for listing both kbin and lemmy communities/magazines yet.
They have a cached copy of the content from before defederation. It's a bit weird, but they can still comment and make posts in the zombie community, but the posts go nowhere. Only users from their own instance can see them, every federated instance sees the 'true' Beehaw content.
It's been a long time coming but I'd love more.
One policy can't do everything, and this is at least better than other platforms. At least it incentives improving housing stock, which the current system does not. Of course we still desperately need a capitol gains/wealth tax and a reform of our tax brackets to being them out of the 90s.