You are assuming that A. Google isn’t scraping data for their own AI, B. that these companies will create their own instances (which opens them up to a certain amount of liability and requires them to retain moderation/admin and maintenance staff (which costs money)). C. That the enshittification of corporate owned versions of Lemmy and the fediverse won’t push people to Lemmy sooner or later.

A fourth assumption you made is that the Threads federation push was made in order to do anything other than create hype around a feature that might draw people away from places like the fediverse. I kind of assumed (maybe I’m wrong) that they were offering it as a way to have all the benefits of federation - namely the assumption of FOSS adjacent services, but with all the “benefits” of corporate social media.

The truth is that it’s likely that Meta absolutely has had a detrimental effect on the fediverse because it has things that pull users away from the fediverse. Instagram has content. For days. And because the fediverse is small (shrinking as you say), and because it doesn’t have an algorithm that pushes certain content to certain users, Meta and the other services that have analogs in the fediverse continue to be popular.

A lot of this is because the fediverse still hasn’t figured out a way to be profitable to content creators and we no longer live in the early 2000’s of YouTube etc where content creation for free was popular.

I’d argue that a lot of the appeal of the fediverse is organic conversation and communication. The popularity of that as a whole is declining because of algorithms that tickle just the right feel good chemicals in our brains.

As for your comment about these corps investing in the fediverse? The only reason for them to do that is if they can make money off it. The major money making scheme the internet is relying on is ad service. So there’s a catch 22 here. I would rather donate money to fedi services than have the fediverse infested with ads.

I don’t want that. Part of the fediverse’s appeal for me is that people aren’t constant trying to sell me things on it.

While I can understand certain communities having "suggest a (game, service, product), for the most part I really don’t want to basically invite corps to think this is free real estate. And that’s exactly what I think this would do.

It’s seems like it would invite corps to basically astroturf Lemmy and the fediverse the way they’re doing with bot armies over on reddit.

Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS’s that didn’t exist in the switch including this one. Pretty sure they started rethinking the idea that they were only marketing to kids after that. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.

I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.

But a lot of the reason games aren’t successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert over-stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.

But what it often comes down to is if what you’re selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.

Absolutely true.

I believe it was their attempt to protect children from unknown people online. I have the app and one of the features is that you can talk to people online in certain games (Animal Crossing, Splatoon, SSB’s, Mario Kart, and I think Mario Party).

Edit: I’d also like to point out that those accessory mics didn’t work with first party games to my knowledge.

There was some public outcry about it specifically from parents who had to download said app and let their kids use it for games. You could later use accessories that would add a mic but it was limited.

https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Support/Troubleshooting/How-to-Use-Voice-Chat-Using-the-Nintendo-Switch-App-1442573.html?srsltid=AfmBOor7pvIPB7U5tAiGPZalHfrOmwWvHmZgM4CCYId0-773YzAv81Y0

https://www.kentfaith.ca/blog/article_how-to-use-microphone-on-nintendo-switch_2740?srsltid=AfmBOopExBS39Dzz0C-Uuhv8x2QNd3yUnGlLgxaiV1WLLTkqEVeAdg5d

Haven’t you heard. Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably.

Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games. Humble bundle? Runs sales events where these games get showcased. Itch.io’s whole schtick is selling indie games.

It’s nice that Valve gives studios a platform to help market their games and all that, and yes, by dint of being one of the largest gaming sale platforms out there launching on steam helps their chances. But most of them weren’t ever gonna reach the success of AAA titles regardless and we pretend that that’s Valve’s fault for reasons I have never understood.

It’s the same problem with each of the online stores including the Nintendo E-Shop. Your game still has to be decent and be marketed to the people who want to play it.

Additionally they have to have time to play it. Which means you’re fighting every other game in the category in order to claim each players time.

There’s a whole lot to making and marketing a successful game at literally every level and not every studio can be a Team Cherry.

Switch OG doesn’t have a mic and that’s the reason they included the phone app. There were a fair number of aftermarket accessories that had mics though but I can’t say any of them were implemented to use first party games.

Then they should have to explain under what law or suspected crime he was detained and his phone was taken as evidence.

Because otherwise they can’t prove he deleted evidence of a suspected crime. So what is the suspected crime?

They don’t explain enough about the circumstances of the arrest or how the phone was wiped. As far as I’m concerned that’s probably because the law enforcement entity mismanaged the situation and supposed “evidence” and are now trying to pin whatever they can on the guy.

It’s stupid that they can just do this with no actual evidence and just an accusation with no factual information provided.

That’s my comfort lemon husk.

Same. My pro 9 is fine. My pixel 8 had the vertical line and they replaced the whole device for free.

Look at him trying to keep the wave going.

Yeah pretty much. Display port is just as good but there aren’t really a lot of TVs on the market with display port because the people who own the HDMI standard are in that industry.

The worst of it hasn’t happened yet. The point where consumers can no longer afford to consume is coming. The system isn’t self sustainable if they continue to chase profits in the short term regardless of what happens in the long term. They’re creating a system where only they will be consumers and that leads to a devaluation of all the currency they’re hoarding.

Prices can’t continue to go up if people can’t afford things. This price hike is going to have far reaching consequences and increase prices of everything.

The people of Germany were burning German marks in the street. They traded goods for goods when they were available, and burned the money for warmth.

The rich of our current generation seem to think they can golden parachute out of this. They haven’t thought about the long term repercussions of a world power of the US’s magnitude descending to third world country status, but that’s what is coming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation_in_the_Weimar_Republic

It really didn’t used to be this way. I remember distinctly walking into a metro PCs store in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and being told by the guy there they didn’t care what your name was, you could write down bugs bunny and they’d still take your payment and activate your service. But because of that lots of… Less than reputable people did just that and things kind of ended up how they are now.

I think there was at one point a switch to VOIP because of that change, and after that VOIP providers started tightening things down, so now your best bet is probably to pay someone in crypto to import an already activated phone.

I’m going to point out rule’s 1 and 5 in the sidebar of this community. Have a nice day.

Are you not also making assumptions here?

I’m sure you have some proof of that, however, it’s more than likely subjective given what I said and what I witnessed and you are getting off your original topic.

Edit: You’re misrepresenting what censorship is, and you have still yet to give anyone here a reason to care about this likely contrived exchange. It seems like rage bait to me.

That’s wonderful.

It has nothing at all to do with why you likely got banned because it probably has more to do with the fact that some mod somewhere found you annoying than it does anything else. I’m sure that’s very sad for you, but why should the rest of us care?