Most people came to Lemmy becaise they felt personally agreived by the Reddit API issue. They don't give a shit about what's good for the Internet, or society.
They're here out of protest, and would happily give their all to the next Billionaire that makes them feel smarter than the average bear.
Ignoring the Nazis in the room, rather than barring them from entey, is enabling Nazis
To a platform that has been on the record about not kicking ouy Nazis, though.
They're leaving Musk, but they're not leaving his financial backers, and they're entering into the same kind of "possibly sold to a fascist despot at a moment's notice" situation they just left.
It's short sighted, perfirmative, and doesn't actually make the Internet better at all. It just tells us that people prefer a closed Internet owned by billionaires.
Money is power, and people with money like to habe power.
If someone else is pulling in more money, you're going to find yourself with less power.
Running from one platform backed by people who supported Trump, right into another one. Gotta love controlled opposition and the illusion of choice.
There will be a branch of government telling them what to do. It will just be the courts, as they're sued into oblivion by IP rights holders.
Just to be clear, publishers don't like reviewers, either. They're seen as gatekeepers of audiences and people to be managed and bribed, and that means keeping the reviewer market small. They want reviewers to be PR people with a fascade of being impartial, and few enough to count on one hand.
This is also somwthing that's happening, then, because Nintendo sees a pathway to victory. Not only are their games licensed only for their own hardware, but they can claim the reviews are misleading and invalid because the games aren't designed to run on the platforms they're beinf reviewed on.
Like, none of this is Nintendo coming for your emulation catalogue. It's them coming for people trying to generate an income from their games. And all of the big publishers are going to line up behind them on this, because they also hate anyone who's making coin using their creation.
That's capitalism. That's what it means for something to be capital, and to own it. It's what owning the means of production is all about.
This is not about the legality of emulation, unfortunately, but about whether people have the rights to publish lets plays without a license.
Many suits in the gaming industry see lets plays as theft. They see people making money using their games and believe lets players should have to pay to license thst content, and that they should have the right to revoke that license if they don't like what people are saying about or doimg with their games.
I work in the industry, and I know people who work or who have worked at studios owned by every major punlisher in the west. This is a thing they all habe someone of import chomping at the bit for.
It's just that none of them want to be the one singled out as the first or only one attacking lets plays. Nor to be the one that shoulders the costs of having their position challenged in court.
Not who you replied to, but I've experienced it on both vanilla Element and on Schildichat over and over, as well as repeated logouts that require signin approval from one of my other active sessions.
That are on devices on different floors of the house, or even in different parts of the city.
Shit's jankey as hell.
Then the OP just rented the software.
Adobe should pay more than the inflation-adjusted price - multiples of it, even - so that the repayment is actually punative.
Anything niche by computer geek standards So, like, anything from normie interests to things that are so niche that you need 30 million MAU to have an active space.