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“the government” - doesn’t bother to mention which government xD

I’m guessing you’re from Finland, right?

I considered buying it, I tried it out on Gamepass first, and alas it crashed 5 times with illegal memory access errors before I could even get past character creation haha.

I’m looking forward to trying out the game, I just can’t afford to buy the full thing at the moment, and will have to wait until they’ve patched out the more serious bugs.

Which is fine of course! I’ll just wait 6 months or so, and come back to it then ^_ If I’d paid money for it I’d have been upset, but as it stands I’m good.

Frostpunk vibes, yo

The children yearn for the snow mines

What’s that about only getting 720p though? My TV shows the 4K HDR stuff great from places like Netflix or Prime, has done for years now, and my TV isn’t even new. Surely all modern stuff will show all that high definition stuff just fine.

I think my browser does too, though I only have a 2K screen as of recently on my PC, but I’m certain it’s not playing video in 720p for sure. It’s at least 1080p if not more.

But yeah, these services aren’t giving enough bang for their pound these days, it’s reaching insulting levels, it’s unsurprising people are forced into piracy.

The consumer (or if you prefer, the market) decides what someone is worth, and if it’s being sold for above market value… people won’t buy. Simple as that.

We’ve shown we’re happy to pay a reasonable amount of money for these services, and yet they insist on squeezing exorbitant amounts of money out of us for less and less value. Madness.

What if the post isn’t particularly appropriate for one community, but very good for another? No point having it float to the top of the one it’s not the best fit for.

Like, maybe it’s still relevant on that community but shouldn’t be artificially inflated with votes from an entirely different group of people with different interests.

Nice idea, I just don’t think it would be good in practice.

Is that like https://criticker.com ? I adore that website, it gives me great recommendations and drilling down into their film database with filters is great.

If you like it, they gave a thing to accept donations to keep it running too :-)

Woah now, who said people over 30 are old? 😮

Anyway, your average internet user in 2023 wants to sign in to a platform with ease (preferably using one tap sign in with their Facebook/Google/whatever account).

They also want that one platform to have everything, in an easy to access and digest format, without having to learn complex rules about how a system works.

The days of needing to understand a bunch of stuff to use the latest social media service are gone, and if we build a website/service that requires us to know and understand more complex stuff, and add more barriers to entry, and MOST IMPORTANTLY if we split it up in to a thousand little corners instead of having it all in one place? People will shy away.

Another issue is consistency. People, myself included, want consistency and accountability. I want the people running the platform to be publicly known figures/companies that are accountable for the platform and how they run it, but with this fediverse stuff, it can be run by any anonymous person, who could be doing anything with the private data in our account back ends. And that could be the case hundreds of times over, with all sorts of groups, from all around the world.

There’s no accountability, no way to ensure they’re meeting requirements of our laws. It’s all very untrustworthy and wild west.

That’s fine for some people, but the majority of normal users? They want security, they want safety, they want simple ease of use.

So the image never touches the server side, even in RAM, it always remains only on the client machine, and it’s checked there?

If so, then this could be a pretty neat tidy way to deal with this issue, otherwise the image is on the server, even if you “delete it real fast” or such, and I imagine then you’d still need to be in compliance with the law regarding saving and reporting it.

Woah now hold on there mate, this is the internet, you can’t go making sense, it’s just not the done thing!

U.S. law doesn’t apply in most places, strange that they focused on that particular country for what is a global concern, but for those who are there, I imagine this is very helpful!