Thanks for the shoutout! The power move was a clear violation on the side of Rooki. Words and other fluff aside, the new rule additions are the best indication of not only the lack of change but also doubling down on Rooki’s original position, as described in further detail in my recent comments.

Once I’ve made the last comments and it’s been a few days since the Lemmy.World announcements, I will fully migrate to lemmy.zip because of this incident, so going to my user page on here should make it easy for anyone curious about the events to get a much clearer picture.

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Meanwhile Lemmy.World moderator Rooki:

To be honest linking something like meat to death of people is like saying everybody that breathed air died.

correlation != causation

(comment source, thread archive)

I’m not a moderator of !vegan, so I can’t speak on behalf of the moderators here. Either way, each community has its own rules in addition to the instance rules, so a community can be much stricter (or more subjective) than the instance, which I would expect to be more or less neutral.

Like the Hungarian.

One was a jury trial and the other wasn’t. Google had plenty of records of their internal communications but Apple had a different practice. This article by The Verge does a decent job at highlighting the differences.

In fairness, most of the gamers I see don’t play most of the games they buy either.

Russia is reportedly planning to block WhatsApp as well.

Thinking of starting Tchia, given its recent addition to Game Pass.

I switched off after having found that its privacy settings prevent extensions like Dark Mode from reading your dark mode status in the OS. There’s a workaround but I might as well use something else.

What is the proper way to tie multiple artworks to one entry? I think that was possible on the original Atlas. Here it seems that even duplicate names are not allowed, so documenting many instances of one thing (e.g. the Ukrainian flags) isn’t straightforward.

That’s overkill. Shaun’s video on Harry Potter is less than two hours long and tells you all you need to know.

The store came to be as an “f you” to Apple, as evident from the email exchanges at the time. The 1984 trailer from Fortnite seemed to be in the same vein. I don’t think that particular trailer was for the purpose of promoting the EGS, as there’s not a single hint to the store in the video or its standard placement.

If it were purely self-serving, they’d agree to settle with Google on special terms similar to those offered to a number of other publishers. Court proceedings last for years, as would be obvious to Sweeney, so sacrificing years of revenue for the distant prospect of having to pay 0 to the platforms is easier explained as being ideological than a business decision.

It’s always run as good as any other web-based client on my end. According to a third-party test presumably commissioned by Epic, its empty library cold start time of about 5s was already better than that of Steam as of August 2023, with more improvements planned for this year. In the real world, the boot time would depend on the library size, use frequency (caching), and other factors.

The user’s whole history is extremely suspicious and composed of actions like that. Here is just one random example from two days after the alleged botting took place:

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That’s 35 pixels placed in less than half a second.

That’s a good observation. The thumbnail is indeed updated and at a higher res at https://toast.ooo/post/4077161 compared to lemmy.world for example.

Is the thumbnail version going to be the final official version? It’s from hours before the end.

I preferred being able to interact with the canvas even with the settings menu open. This allows for quick transparency adjustments without having to go back and forth every time.

I haven’t played it yet. I prioritize Game Pass, since those games come and go, but on Steam the library is semi-permanent. Sometimes I really feel like playing a particular game from my library, so I prioritize that over the ones I like on Game Pass.