the university I attended freshman year was ranked top 10 in the US for comp sci (at least as of 4 years ago), yet some of their account management stuff on their website wouldn't be accessible after like 7pm. absolutely insane
LinusTechTips just had an issue with this on WAN show tonight where Luke was trying to show a video on Twitter but he wasn't signed in on his stream laptop and Linus was remote so he couldn't share his screen.
Luckily the creator of the video they wanted to show had also posted it to YouTube so they were able to show it anyway, but it still disrupted the flow of the show and led them to not be able to use the platform as a news source.
They are encouraging users to send feedback on updates via their official feedback site, as well as telling users to engage with their official accounts on other social media platforms.
Not to mention that many of these reddit articles say that the reason for the blackout is that reddit was simply going to put the API behind a paywall, not mentioning the insane rates they were going to charge. Most of the conversations I saw with 3rd party app developers were that they understood the need to charge for the API, the problem was that they wanted to charge an insane amount with very little notice. Kind of makes the protestors seem unreasonable or out of touch
no, each server (kbin.social, fedia.io, lemmy.world, etc.) can have their own communities, since there is no centralized server that manages community names it would be impossible to track which servers already have a community with the same name
yes, that's the beauty of the fediverse! this post explains how you can do that. you can also view and interact with posts from other federated social media sites such as Mastodon if you are interested in that sort of thing
The big issue would be to get everyone to sign up for something like that though. Since things have been running for a while without any sort of checks like that, it would be difficult to switch to that system now (do you merge communities with conflicting names, do you let them change their name, do you let them delete the community, etc.). Plus there’s the whole nature of the fediverse where every instance can be customized to the creator’s needs (so one instance might want to be on that database and others might) and it just becomes too much work to get everyone on board.
Maybe I’m wrong and someone will eventually implement something like this and people will want to use it, but I very much doubt it from what I’ve seen of the fediverse so far
He does have a pixel pals stand-alone app! It’s not just for iPhones with the dynamic island, there are lock screen and home screen widgets available too! App Store link here
If you are on iOS you can add a shortcut to your home screen that will open a self-contained web app for kbin (no url bar or browser buttons, it’s own entry in the app switcher, etc.)
On Firefox for iOS, click on the hamburger menu in the bottom right, then click “Share”, then select “Add to Home Screen”
I’ve heard that android has an app for kbin, however I do not have an android device so I can’t verify if that’s true/if it’s any good
I’m typing this from a Home Screen shortcut that I created from Firefox (iOS). Make sure that your Firefox is up to date, I believe it’s something they added support for within the past few versions
I spent the past couple weeks playing through TotK and it was very fun, but I played so much over a short period of time I definitely burned myself out a bit.
I've now been getting back into Parkitect, which I highly recommend if anyone is a fan of the older RollerCoaster Tycoon games
Well the RULEs start coming, and they don't stop coming (lemmy.tf)
Or...
Part of the Social Security website (ssa.gov) only works during certain hours (sh.itjust.works)
… its a website run by the US Government. Why does it have such large downtimes in this day and age?
Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read (www.androidpolice.com)
In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
Mojang's dropping its official support of the Minecraft Subreddit (www.overclock3d.net)
Minecraft's subreddit is losing its official support from Mojang, and Reddit's management is to blame
Breakingviews - Reddit’s golden geese foul up its IPO plans (www.reuters.com)
Remember that the button at the top of the sidebar expands the options to disable federation.
From @christianselig@mastodon.social on the #RedditBlackout:
Reddit’s users and moderators are revolting against its CEO (www.theverge.com)
A lot of Reddit will go dark soon in protest of API changes
Hello! Can we normalize a few things?
Don't be a vote connoisseur here please. Redefine how you think about voting and participating....
What has everyone been playing lately?
What's everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?...