Well they can plan it if they want to, but I'm sure many instances will just end up blocking them and there isn't anything they can do about it. But on the other hand, having such a large backing is making things much easier for Threads.
Oh my God, thanks for the heads up! As a European, I would most definitely want to avoid visiting these sites, as I obviously respect copyright law to its full extent! Now I can add them to my (block) list!
Ok maybe its just me being out of touch with the Finnish scene, but I seriously and I mean SERIOUSLY doubt that 40% of the content pirated here is Finnish content. Could, again, be me just not giving a damn about Finnish shows/movies personally, but I don't even know where I'd go looking for those downloads. But just looking at the sheer amount of content that's available in English and other languages vs Finnish content, they are in essence saying that almost all Finnish shows are pirated then, because otherwise you're not getting anywhere close to 40% of that content being pirated. Unless they think that without piracy ALL of those people would be watching it legally, then maybe you'd get somewhere north of 20%. But even with just Finnish content, the fact is that you'd have to subscribe, I think to at least two (MTV Katsomo+ that is 13€ per month so you don't get ads (which yes, means that there is 7€ paid tier WITH ADS....) and Ruutu+ (that is also 13€ per month, 8€ per month WITH ADS....) and that's on top of, say Netflix. I just don't think that without piracy those 40% would actually pay for those services, just don't see it happening. I think they are way off with their numbers and are delusional in thinking that Finnish content would have such a big draw. I doubt it does.
Shit like this is why I switched to OpenOffice and then LibreOffice all those years ago. LibreOffice is just as good for my personal purposes and I'm never going back to MS Office. Unless your work specifically requires something only Microsoft's product can do, I highly recommend LibreOffice, I use it every single day.
Some software just literally isn't available for Linux. And lets face it, even Ubuntu requires more tinkering than the average user is prepared to do, or in other words, any tinkering at all because they would have to install it themselves and they do not know how to do that. And the few times I've bothered to use Linux even as my backup, the tinkering never stops. Its not worth the hassle at this point in time.
Just make sure anything you order is either "fulfilled by Amazon" or "Ships from Amazon" and you should avoid that. I personally don't order anything that isn't shipped by Amazon (either through fulfillment or otherwise).
I'm too stupid to figure out the scale between that pole and the earth, so I did this instead:
Let us say that we have a standard globe and it has been attached to its stand from the south and north poles, so that you can spin it around on the stand
Let us assume that the "pole" attached to the globe is 2cm in diameter and that the scale of the globe is 1:42M
With this, it would mean that a 2cm "pole" on a globe would in real life correspond to a pole that is 840 kilometers in diameter.
Needless to say, that pole would be fucking massive either way.
Isn't the file limit 25MB these days? And yeah, I remember Skype having no limit on that but I also remember it taking an eternity and a half to transfer some of those files.
It really worries me that they're trying to be federated with it. Thankfully lots of instances will block it, but it was only a matter of time until a corporation decided to take aim at federation.
Shame we have to wait for that, but I guess if the site literally doesn't have an API yet, its not up to him. I've been using kbin more for some reason, don't even know why.
Its trending in the right direction. July will tell us a lot and we're gonna see if the hardcore users migrating (the people who actually post a lot of content) will force those more casual users to come here as well.
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
Bunch of my childhood town is now just more buildings. Used to be more forest and now there's nothing but slabs of concrete. This small mall that used to be there? Buildings now, just tons of buildings.
This community got removed from lemmy.world (again)
This is another post that alerted me of this....
Which carbonated soft drink is the best?
The age old question. Coke? Pepsi? Store brand? Any other?...
A script to convert all 264 to 265?
Does someone have a script that converts all videos files from 264 to 265 and changes the name?...
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year’ (www.theverge.com)
Pirate Site Blocking Demands Intensify in the US (torrentfreak.com)
Nordic piracy stats (ttvk.fi)
tldr;...
Landlord torches New York home after tenants stop paying rent, become squatters (www.foxbusiness.com)
Brooklyn landlord Rafiqul Islam faces arson and attempted murder charges
Paid for MS Excel out of the goodness of my heart so now I get this popup every 2 hours... (lemmy.world)
Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Windows 11 to get people to ditch Google (www.theverge.com)
Amazon is raising free-shipping minimums for customers without a Prime membership (nypost.com)
It's why it's called the North Pole (lemmy.ml)
Mastodon has hit 2M active monthly users! (i.ibb.co)
WEB 4.69 (lemmy.world)
Meta’s Threads app is a privacy nightmare that won’t launch in EU yet (techcrunch.com)
Meta’s planned Twitter killer, Threads, isn’t yet publicly available but it already looks like a privacy nightmare…
Lemmy, meet Toffee, (lemmy.tf)
She’ll be 12 weeks as of July 9th
Lemmy.world has grown by about 66.6% since reddit's API shutdown (lemmy.world)
Lemmy.world grew from about 51k users when third-party reddit apps started to shut down to about 84.8k users at the time of this post....
Lemmy/Fediverse Terms Explained
Decentralization...
Ernest Appreciation Post
Kbin has seen a staggering amount of growth in the past few weeks, and with it a bunch of discussion about issues and bugs....
Sync for Lemmy signup is now open (syncapps.io)
As mentioned before I'm aiming to have something ready in the next 6 weeks ish....
Kbin + Lemmy has just ticked over 100k active users
https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse
Lemmy mobile apps worth mentioning
(Please provide your Lemmy app recommendations in the comments)...
repost: Should r/Piracy continue protesting? (www.reddit.com)
Title
What’s a place from your childhood that doesn’t exist anymore?
There used to be a water park in my hometown that had a bunch of slides and a wave pool. I used to go there all the time as a kid, and even went there as a senior on a trip. I went to birthday parties there, sometimes....
4 days before reddit's 3rd party app shutdown, Lemmy daily active users has skyrocketed 1400% this month (lemmy.world)
From 3000 daily active users on June 1, 2023 to 47500 on June 26, 2023....
he hates the brush (lemmy.world)