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@Chozo@kbin.social

Hail Satan.

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Sharkey

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... from the My Photo Stream feature, only. The rest of your photos are fine. Not a fan of the ragebait headline.

FTA:

Apple announced it will permanently do away with the My Photo Stream album next month. The feature automatically stores pictures taken in the last 30 days.

Due to the impending shutdown, My Photo Stream stopped uploading snaps on June 26 — and everything in the album will be deleted when the service ceases July 26.

However, any pics that were uploaded to My Photo Stream before June 26 will remain in iCloud for 30 days from the date of upload and will be available on devices where My Photo Stream is enabled.

To ensure you do not lose any pictures, go into the My Photo Stream album in your camera roll and save your pictures to your device or to iCloud.

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Beehaw doesn't have downvotes? What about if I post on a Beehaw thread from within kbin? Do my downvotes not register in that situation? Or do they just not have the option for themselves within their own instance?

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Ernest is the GOAT.

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I actually prefer having a visible scoring system in place. Things like that can be red flags that indicate whether or not somebody is participating in a discussion in bad faith. If you take a cursory glance through somebody's profile and see that they're constantly stirring up trouble and being a bother to people, you know not to waste your energy dealing with them.

Obviously it's not a perfect solution for that situation, and doesn't apply in all scenarios (trolls can also be good karma farmers, too), but it's an extra indicator that can help determine somebody's true motives in a discussion.

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Scores will reflect popularity more than general quality consensus.

I think that's just an unavoidable consequence of having a forum that allows for voting like this. Even on Reddit, very few people upvoted/downvoted according to the "official" guidelines (based on whether or not a post was of quality/contributed to the discussion) and instead just upvoted what they thought was funny or downvoted what they disagreed with.

That's a people issue more than it is a UI/UX issue.

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I've heard that Illumination is already in talks with Nintendo on a Zelda movie. Sounds like the Mario movie did well enough that Nintendo wants to make more.

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I feel like the VC/investor money that's kept huge swaths of the internet afloat for the last 20 years is finally starting to run dry. All these huge platforms who have been in "burn mode" since they were founded never figured out how to become profitable earlier on, and are now scrambling to keep themselves sustainable.

It's hard to feel sorry for them, even in the midst of their downfall. They've all had plenty of time to prepare for the day the their corporate sugar daddies leave them, and instead sought short-term profits over long-term sustainability.

I do feel bad for the communities, though. We've basically seen the Walmart-ification of the internet, where a few big corporate entities moved into the neighborhood and basically took over the landscape with their presence, effectively strong-arming smaller competition out of existence. So it'll be good to see more homegrown communities sprout back up in their place again.

Maybe we can see something like this happen with actual Walmarts soon, too. :)

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Does this count only for personal account reputation scores, or does this also count toward any sorting algos on the platform?

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I'd have to imagine that Meta would be locked within their own little bubble. I find it hard to believe that many of the current instances out there wouldn't immediately opt to defederate from Meta out of principle. I don't think it'd be difficult to find a community that's blocked all interaction with Meta.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Tonight on birdchan, Jack Dorsey says all twitter needs to succeed is MORE BITCOIN!

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"censorship-resistant open protocols like bitcoin"

Is he okay? Does he smell toast right now? I don't understand what he thinks he's talking about here.

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I'm glad to hear that things are progressing! I'm really excited to get my hands on the app. :)

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they did not respond to a request to use the app with screen curtain on.

That's pretty damning. If they can't even demo it while simulating a real world use-case, then that tells me how little faith they really have in their product.

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I feel so bad for the construction crews out here these days. People are going to die because of Abbott's ridiculous policies.

Again.

It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. (sfba.social)

Attached: 2 images This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself. The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying. In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on...

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There's something strangely poetic about this.

Can Lemmy posts be indexed by Google or other search engines?

One of the best things about reddit was looking for answers or other users with the same problem as you, and since Google didn’t really help with that anymore and instead insisted on giving you business results, the best practice was to put your search terms in followed by ‘reddit’ and you’d find your answer.

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I think OP is asking about a broader, Fediverse-scaled search. So using the site: search tag will only search a single Lemmy instance. I don't think Google will index cross-instance content in those searches, otherwise it'll end up with a ton of duplicate results. So if what you're looking for was actually posted to a different instance, it may not be found with that search.

I'm just theorizing, though, since this is all still really new and untested.

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Hopefully it's not permanent, I love his videos! But if he does decide to retire, he still has my support. The dude's absolutely earned a break from over a decade of grinding out videos.

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The fact that I can open up ChatGPT right now and say "Write a Kotaku article about why Tetris is racist" and get a 100% believable result out of it should be a sign that they've been replaceable for a while now.

DeanObeidallah, to random
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Is it wrong for me to enjoy watching Twitter die?!

😀

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Spez was saying he wanted to emulate Elon. I hope he's paying close attention right now.

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A few of these appear to be remakes and spin-off titles, but that's still a crazy amount of new projects. It's honestly kind of insane just how much content Ubisoft has been putting out in recent years. It's legitimately hard to even keep track of anymore.

I'm able to still browse live Reddit on RIF when I am logged out. Will doing so count API calls against the devs?

I noticed that when I was logged in, whenever I refreshed I would get a 429 error. However after clearing my app data, and opening the app as a subconscious abatement of boredom, I realized I was still being fed live content....

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I don't believe this is going against the dev's API usage. I believe TalkLittle has said that he's already revoked the token RIF uses for Reddit's API (which was what prompted the 429 errors), so I imagine the app is falling back to a free, limited-use API functionality to show content but not interact with it.

I'm not a programmer, though. I'm just guessing.

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Yep, I'm inclined to believe this, especially considering that currently notifications seem to be delayed in many cases. My notifications will show empty for hours, and then I'll see new notifications for replies I've already seen by that point.

Likely gonna be a few weeks before things start to stabilize after the influx of new users.

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Oh dang, if only somebody could have seen this coming! Oh well, nothing can be done.

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I really want to believe you're the real Margot. The idea of AAA-listers being early adopters to super nerdy, niche web platforms like Lemmy tickles me.

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I'd appreciate if the dev could explain the need for these perms. I'm sure it's something innocuous, but it'd be relieving to hear why they're there.

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