But here’s a bonus feature: many platforms allow you to easily migrate your account to a new instance.

But Lemmy isn’t one of those platforms. Right?

Generally I agree with the article that the shutdown of lemm.ee isn’t a big deal. It sucks for sure, but the Fediverse survives.

Personally I don’t care about account migration. Export/import works fine, but I get that it’s a little clunky for some.

Community migration is something that I think is more important and as I understand PieFed handles this. Hopefully Lemmy will someday and even better between Lemmy & PieFed.

I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.

But I’ve never seen any of the others.

And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.

You also have to keep track the site and how you spell it. For example is it “Microsoft” or “microsoft”?

And keep track of the current name of the site vs the old name. For example am I signing into Microsoft or Live.com or Xbox?

And keep track of my username. Is it my email? Which email? Which username?

I understand the concept but I think if falls apart fast.

The last Bond film was 2021 with “No Time To Die”, so if you saw that you’re all caught up.

No cast announced and it’ll come after Dune 3… So it’s still going to be a while, but it’s a step forward.

then you lose half the users and perhaps half the communities

As a thought, do you really lose them?

For example the “Television” community previously existed on the lemm.ee instance. The lemm.ee instance is scheduled for shutdown. The “Television” community is now hosted on the piefed.social instance.

It has the same users and has the same topics of discussion. Were the users really lost? Did the community really go away?

Let’s pretend Reddit decided it would no longer allow discussion on “Television”. What if BlueSky no longer allowed discussion on “Television”. You’d have to leave those platforms completely. You really would lose those communities. Those users (at least in part) really would be gone.

Is Lemmy.World a big instance? Sure. Would the users and communities really be lost if it went away? I don’t think so.

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But seriously looking over his TV and film history looks like he was in a handful of things over the years, but Spider-Man is definitely where I know him from. Looks like he had a good long life, rest in peace.

I’m not surprised, but I agree with the hot take, so maybe it’s only warm.

I think they keep interest in ActivityPub in order to keep regulators concerned with Antitrust at bay. The Fediverse isn’t a real threat in Meta’s view and keeping an engineer or two on it in order to stay invested is worth the cost.

Threads can say they are making an honest effort to work with the larger open source community and open federated internet. As an added bonus, it isn’t actually a lie. Now the effort they’re putting in is the absolute minimum, but it’s there.

Now I still do think this is a positive. While most people on Threads will probably never leave, it does introduce them to the wider Fediverse. It makes the Fediverse a less scary thing.

AFAIK Pokemon doesn’t do cloud saves.

The reason being to prevent duplication of Pokemon.

Given that the game is largely single player that seems like a stupid reason to me.

While I’m sure some people do a lot of breeding and IV training for the more competitive scene, be assume lots of people just hack together whatever team they need. Wonder Trade and Home have always been full of random shiny Pokemon.

…because the author is an investigative journalist?

We all know it’s a scam, but it’s their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.

I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.

Google Image Labeler apparently, but I don’t actually just remember the game. Looks like it’s called Crowdsource now, and you can get points, but it isn’t a competition.

Search also sucks because people suck.

If I post a picture of a flower with the caption “Look what grew in my garden!”, that’s a terrible post from a search point of view.

Later on someone will search for “flower” but I didn’t use the word “flower” so now search sucks.

Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.

Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.

I just tried a bunch of apps that I swear used to have it, it all of them just say “Open in the real app” now. I wonder if low usage here also means developers stopped using them.

Basically what would happen is you’d click a link to Instagram, and instead of opening a web page, it would open the Instagram “app” instantly. If you then tried to do anything more advanced in the app (advanced decided by the developer) it would prompt you to install the app.

I suppose the reason I’m so forgiving of the online features, is that I don’t use them. They’re a nice little addition for sure, but I do not see them as core to the game.

I think it’s embarrassing that they’re sooooo far behind. Definitely if they’re a thing you’re expecting, it’s going to sour your view of the game.

Performance is a personal thing.You’re not alone, it’s a common complaint, I won’t deny that. I’ve played all three of those games, Kirby, Zelda & Mario but never remember having an issue. I’m sure I did, but it never stuck with me. I remember Arceus looking like an GameCube game. But I also remember completing the Pokedex 100%.

I was burned by Super Mario Party, so that franchise is dead to me. Maybe others will burn me too.

I think the Switch 2 launching with just Mario Kart was a huge mistake. No Mario. No Zelda. I can’t remember the last time that happened. Donkey Kong is coming soon, and it’s supposedly similar to Oddessy… But we’ll have to see. There are great DK games, but he’s no Mario and it’s been a while.

Exactly, look at Johnathan Majors. He had a lot against him, more than just allegations, but he wasn’t dropped by Disney until the conviction.

Look at Ezra Miller. He had allegations against him aplenty. Honestly he had more than allegations, but I don’t think many (any?) went to court. With the DCEU already dead it saved Warner Brothers the trouble of having to fire him, but he disappeared from TV & films immediately.

Disney really wants Tron to exist as a franchise. Tron Legacy was a huge film (cost wise) and it had a spin-off cartoon. They recently opened a Tron themed rollercoaster at their theme park. This film is meant to keep the franchise alive and renew interest.

Now I’m not against a good Tron franchise existing. Tron is a fun aesthetic. But obviously fuck Jared Leto. Whatever the future of Tron, the quicker they can drop Leto the better.

Oh I absolutely agree there are plenty of criticisms about the company itself and their other offerings, but the games are absolutely top tier.

Their online is miles behind, games from Smash Bros to Mario Maker to Mario Kart could all be improving with better online, but since they were terrible at online I never used them, but those games were still excellent.

A lower powered system or poorly optimized game has some frame rate dips or stuttering, but never in a way that gameplay was affected. I know people will disagree but I’ve never had an issue with it.

Yes, joycon drift is a real problem. But that’s a hardware problem. We should absolutely give Nintendo shit for hardware problems.

Suing fan projects or being aggressive about YouTube/Twitch take down, all fair. Fuck Nintendo for all that.

But all of that is different from their games being solid. I don’t blame people who choose to emulate their games, they’re awesome games.

I’ll give you that Sony might be competitive, I don’t see Xbox/Microsoft anywhere close. I think Valve and the SteamDeck are probably 4th in the race, but Valve has to actually make a game. They made great games and should continue to do so.

Nintendo gets away with it because their games rarely have a discount. An $80 game today will be $80 in a year. After several years you sometimes get a limited discount for their best selling games. A bundle or a voucher can be a small loss leader, usually if you buy one of something you buy another.

The other thing of course is that Nintendo makes absolutely top tier games. The fan base is earned. You can buy a Mario or Zelda game, knowing nothing about it, and it’s going to be good. Pokemon is the obvious exception here, the mainline games are fine, but would be nothing without the brand. (I also won’t forgive them for Super Mario Party, that was a $30 game, not $60.)

I don’t expect $80 games to go away, because as long as someone will pay it, it’s free money. But if sales slump too much in the long run I do see quick discounts, possibly even for Nintendo games.

While the company would love you to buy it at launch for $80, they’re fine if you wait for a (first party) sale.

Look at the first Outer World. At launch sold for $60. Three months post launch, $50. Six months post launch, $40. One year post launch, $30.

If this new game sells the exact same, but starts at $80, they’re ahead. Even if the $80 number scares away a lot of people, they’re ahead. Only if it scares away a shit ton of people will it be a problem.

Not enough if I want to master it in my lifetime.

I assume it’s done that way to prevent an IDN homograph attack.

For example if I sent you a link to “gооgle.com” you’d be like, sure. Except that isn’t a link to “google” it’s a link to “gооgle.com”.