MrFahrenheit

joined 1 year ago
[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very appropriate in this case:

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Express yourself however you want

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

There's already some big communities. I abandoned my PS5 magazine after finding a much bigger one

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Seems convenient for Apple unless if they've sold out already

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

At a similar time as The Verge was threatened I noticed some articles changed their tune and switched to downplaying the Reddit situation. The one I recall is Gizmodo reporting that Reddit traffic was back to normal.

It'll be interesting to see how things play out at the end of this week when the 3rd Party Apps go offline, but to be honest I'm happy to say my new home is Kbin.social and don't see the need for an active Reddit account, though I may lurk from time to time if I'm looking for some particular information that's not yet on Kbin.

The game changer for Fediverse is stable mobile applications, once the Apollo shaped hole on my phone is filled I think it'll be pretty much a drop-in replacement.

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In the early Internet days I recall the theories were that the 'World Wide Web' was literally just that, a trap to catch people and 'internet' being jokingly referred to as being 'into-the-net' with similar meaning. At the time those concepts referred more to Internet addiction but now I find it strange that it's come back around to the whole idea of us all being trapped in the corporate web with no escape whilst they leech off our rights and privacy as we lie helpless and despondent.

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Catchiest: Adventure Time
Memorable: Game of Thrones (are /r/freefolk here yet?)
Favourite: Futurama - watched every single one for the different slogans and classic cartoon clips

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Nope, no need for open-source. If it was so easy to make an iOS app we'd have one available on the App Store already. There's works in progress and TestFlight releases just to cater for the increasing demand but even those will take time to reach full maturity and polish.

There's no reason for someone to work so hard and give away their IP for free. From what you see from many apps, the authors are continuously working hard to work on it, adding new features, fixing bugs and with it being still the relatively early days of the Fediverse, keeping up and reflecting changes on the platform.

App developers should be free to decide how they protect their IP and how they market their product. I gladly paid for Apollo and would be more than happy to pay for my preferred Fedi app to support the effort behind it.

A better approach would be for the Kbin/Lemmy project to open-source an SDK for iOS

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So helpful! I've found it but the image uploader doesn't seem to work on my browser

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

In the Shire it's known as eating Lembass

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How did you post from kbin.social to lemmy.ml?!?

[–] MrFahrenheit@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

This is where PS+ will be in 5 years...

  • Introduce PS+ as optional
  • Require PS+ for online play
  • Introduce digital only console
  • Introduce PS+ tiers (with the middle tier being most appealing to the mainstream)
  • Increase pricing, abandon physical games, full market control

The only thing that can stop this happening is either support of physical sales, or additional marketplaces for digital games

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