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Were there any links to torrents though?
Were there any links to torrents though?
While that’s fairly typical and good practice in dev circles, we’re talking about a company that’s single handedly elevated an entire OS to prevent a big company taking too much power. I think the key here is they don’t really compete with Google.
Only gamers get that joke
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The choice is the thing, I think. It’s what made the whole Reddit thing a bit bizarre for me. Like they could’ve just passed the ads through the API and used personal API keys in 3rd party apps. Those content to take the ads take them and those who prefer to pay a fee can do so.
“We need to pay for this shit, it’s up to you how we do it” is a much easier sell IMO than “you’ll use our app and you’ll fucking like it”
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Or they accept it as a way to pay for that instance. The servers aren’t free at the end of the day.
It’d be nice if I could get a 64G model in the UK.
You can just go get Unity or UE right now. With UE you can make a $1million before you need to pay a royalty and the tooling is substantially better than any of the tools id released back in the day. (And fwiw I think it’s a crying shame id tech engines are no longer open sourced too!)
It’s going to be fairly obvious fairly quickly if the big apps are nixing ads, no need to sue, just block access to the API for violation.
Is it surprising? There are specialists pushing nonsense to dupe people constantly, fake experts, real news branded as fake news. No one reasonably has the time to research every bit of news they see. The world is a weird place rn.
Yeah, this is my main issue too. Some kind of account container that could propagate round the fediverse rather than a centralised lookup would be better and more in keeping with the ethos imo.
Potentially instances could opt to load balance with each other in that case when usage rises.
Can’t understand why they don’t just pass through the ads, I don’t want them, but I could live with them. It’s this alone that makes me think they just want to kill third party apps and nothing else.
By that logic shouldn’t they just shut down the instance? There’s nothing to stop anyone posting direct links to piracy in any comm