Not “probably”. They were. For the last decade, up until like last year. And they were awful, and a ripoff. At least they’re not trying to charge $1k+ for this one.

in the Linux world, 8GB is fine

Yeahhhhh no

All depends on what type of games you play. I never use them.

Lemmy and PieFed are not analogous to BlueSky. That would be more Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed, etc. So, in just about every other case, yes.

Well what’s the answer? Is he garbage?

But Gary Vee told me NFTs would make me rich!

Mastodon’s problems are not intrinsic…

AP accounts are also portable…

but doing so risks just sending users to a pseudo-fork like blacksky.

I think if there’s anything we’ve learned at this point, it’s that it’s extremely hard to get users to leave a platform they have connections on. That’s always the plan.

Why wait? Why continue contributing value and investing in the platform? The longer you wait, the harder it becomes.

They used COVID as a kind of red herring.

Why would they need a red herring?

LOL would advise you to get your head out of the sand and open your eyes to what’s happening around you.

That’s just not true. Music is often uploaded as a background component for a video.

https://fediversereport.com/bluesky-censorship-and-country-based-moderation/

And I didn’t know about the redirects and tracking either. They are doing that without ads?

Don’t take my word for it. Try it for yourself. Open any link and the link you clicked is hijacked back to a BSky domain.

He was not always Elon’s buddy and he was not a PoS at the time, to my knowledge. In fact he went on Joe Rogan and argued with Tim Poole and defended his liberal policies and trans protections.

Unfortunately COVID radicalized them both.

It was always going to be this way. It didn’t take long to see the signs of enshittification on BSky. They were subpoenaed for user info, they banned journalists, implemented age verification, and I left when they started adding link redirects and tracking.

YouTube isn’t responsible for licensing any music either, but they are responsible for keeping it off their platform, and they’ve gone to great lengths to achieve this.

I mean many of those publishers, like it says in the article, are “high profile” and will have more than enough money to cover a music copyright issue.

But suing Valve means you only need to sue 1 company instead of dozens, and it also makes Valve responsible for keeping the songs out of its entire library of tens of thousands of games.

True but the attackers exploited SMS in order to gain access, which is notoriously insecure. It’s a security vulnerability with no benefit.

As far as I know, WhatsApp is very secure. Just not private.