How do you stand image scaling on 3DS? It’s either poststamp sized or horribly mangled by non-integer scaling on a very low res display. It’s the reason I keep DSi along NN3DS.

Some were licking the boot because reddit promised ways to monetize subs during a Mod Summit ~2 years ago (business model would be taking a cut of all transactions happening on their platform). I quit modding shortly after and then reddit entirely so I’m not sure if they ever implemented this. Even if they didn’t, mods will remember that promise.

Carbon offsets and credits, Wikipedia

Whatever is done to fight spam should be useful in fighting CSAM too. Latest “AI” boom could prove lucky for non-commercial social networks as content recognition is something that can leverage machine learning. Obviously it’s a significant cost so pitching in will have to be more common in covering running costs.

I don’t think the Lemmy is well prepared to handle bots or more sophisticated spam, for now we’re just too small to target. I usually browse by new and see spam staying up for hours even in the biggest communities.

People seem to be selectively stretching definition of social media but are rather inconsistent in applying this label. Yeah, plenty of platforms and websites can be described as social media but we generally go with calling them by primary function. YouTube and TikTok are video platforms first. Reasons why Twitter and TikTok are going downhill are vastly different, reasons for their resilience or lack thereof will be very different too.

I agree, it all went downhill when we stopped having liturgy exclusively in Ecclesiastical Latin. Plebs can now use internet without knowing HTML too. How will they know their place?

TikTok is no more a social media platform than YouTube is. I’m puzzled why some people call it that and my only guess is that they’ve never used it.

Apple revenue in 2023 was ~$380b and their cash reserves were ~$160b. They can take a couple of worst case scenario fines technically, especially given that they’d be challenged in courts for years. Just makes you realize how important that 30% cut is for them.

Delaying the inevitable. The fines that are coming are inevitable too but for Apple it’s just a cost of running their business.

If this becomes a high risk then this form of verification will be dropped. If it’s going to be assessed as relatively low risk then online / webcam verification will have risk scoring penalty adjusted. KYC will still exist. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

That would be quite easy given that Gmail launched in 2004 as invite-only and access has been somewhat limited well into 2007.

Geez, Fedipact people talking about XMPP prove time and time again that they’re too young to remember that.

Vergecast people and @davidpierce@mastodon.social who wrote this piece have been on board with Activity Pub for much longer than Threads has even been a thing.

I do wonder if they know about Lemmy though :)

I think it will be okay for smaller manufacturers, right now they have to spend resources on supporting multiple major smart home platforms so Matter will make their lives a bit easier.

My smart home is Homekit + Homebridge based and I don’t have that much smart devices so I’m not super up to date. The way I understand this, Matter is supposed to make Homebridge unnecessary and after many delays it finally happened to some degree, hence inclusion in “year in review” type of article. I know of Home Assistant but did it get any big updates this year?

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BS. There are 140 mil Threads accounts and over 2 bil Instagram accounts. You can create Threads account with Instagram and for a time they couldn’t be decouple but that changed too.

They have orders of magnitude more users than all Mastodon instances combined already.

I’m getting an impression you’re not using Mastodon. Vast majority of Mastodon users are there for a very specific reason, to decouple from corporate social networks, and won’t switch, period.

My optimism is grounded on having reasons to believe Meta is implementing Activity Pub so that EU regulators will allow them to operate here depending on whether Meta plays nice.