I agree, it seems like they’re doing everything they can to force users into the mindset of “you’re going to have to spend money here.”

However… I don’t think that’s going to work. It’s a tactic that relies solely on Apple not allowing the user to customize their icons, which combines into a double whammy of “give me money to fix the thing that I broke.”

Why do I have to pay when Android users don’t?

Why is Reddit being greedy?

This other site is free and doesn’t make me feel like I’m being taken advantage of every turn.

Reddit is trying to capitalize on goodwill they already spent months ago. And the quality of the site is just going to get worse from here.

Ryobi is just so cheap that it doesn’t make sense for me to buy any other cordless brand with the number of batteries I have.

But for hand tools and corded stuff I get the cheapest I can find, until something slows me down too much, then I’ll upgrade.

That’s how I’ve built a small empire of tools.

You’re missing the point.

Pornography addiction is a real thing.

I don’t think citronella actually does anything.

You need to clear your cookies for Lemmy.world

If she is gone … What will the community do then?

I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.

I agree, never trust the justice system to get things right. But also, don’t let the poor reputation of the justice system get in the way of protecting victims of crime in cases involving minorities.

Minorities are much less likely to get the attention they need from investigators when they’re the victim of a crime. And like everyone, they’re often victimized by someone from their own community.

It’s an incredibly nuanced problem that isn’t easy to sum up in an easily digestible comment.

I have thought that way before.

But nowadays I have a different perspective. I’ve got everything I need to be happy, and that’s enough for me.

You’re not going to be obsessing over all your career achievements on your deathbed, you’re just going to wish you had spent more time with loved ones.

Which would be pretty important if we want to keep monetization as unobtrusive as possible on Lemmy.

That said, I do think we need to figure out image hosting at some point.

Could you even tell?

After all, we are in the era of advanced LLMs.

I really like that idea.

It would absolutely demolish the risk of a community turning into a meme sub, or one of subs where people just post pictures of their Raspberry Pi in some retail case over and over again.

And as long as pictures are disallowed on the main post, people could still be free to post links to guides or other important content that contains pictures.

It would be nice to interact with my own family and friends

That’s a straight no from me.

We can already interact with our friends and family anywhere we choose, but Lemmy is one of the only general discussion areas left on the internet that isn’t full of the stupidest people on the planet.

Bringing our family here will just result in real identities taking over and limiting discussion to what’s acceptable in all our little social bubbles.

Absolutely, and the actions that “go against the sustainability and self-interest of the fediverse” will need to be analyzed and codified into fediverse “law.”

If we make specific and firm rules about what is disallowed on an instance, it makes enforcing those rules simple.

Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.

Prosecutors can just say they don’t have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the “no case” idea.

We don’t have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don’t fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“Disobeying police orders”, which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.

I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.

Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it’s often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.

What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as “normal” regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.

I pay a few bucks a month for access to a giant plex share.

It’s worth it to just, watch stuff, basically anything, instead of fiddling around with different apps and subscriptions and all that.

I’d happily pay a lot more for the same legal service, but it doesn’t exist.

Studios, if you want my money, make everything available in one spot for a reasonable price. Or, continue your bastardization of everything, and I’ll just keep watching your stuff anyway.

I believe the only instances that should be defederated are corporate, self-harm, profanely illegal, and political extremist instances.

Anything further than that and the whole network is going to devolve into a series of micro echo chambers.

Or maybe it won’t, maybe the vast and free instances will flourish while the restrictive instances die out.

Either way, trying to control a community based on wishy washy ideology is not a good look.

I think in these early days we’ll see a lot of power drunk admins who are too eager to push the button, just because they can.

I was gonna say the same thing but then I saw the 2200-something upvotes.

This community is doomed to be exactly like the low effort meme sub r/piracy if people keep upvoting this lazy content.

I don’t think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that’s already served by default on Reddit.

Diablo 4 looks interesting, but $70 and microtransactions just rubs me the wrong way.

Motherland if I’m not mistaken.