The thing is, Trump isn’t doing shit. It’s very clear that Miller and the Heritage Foundation are at the helm here, and they do what they say they will do.

I worked there for five years. A lot of good, talented, passionate people there who had their ideas stepped on by Ubisoft corporate at every step of the way. The studio regularly received recognition from corporate, was trusted in taking over trainwreck projects from other studios, and with partnering with Ubisoft’s flagship studios on their mobile games.

The only reasons to shutter the studio are A) corporate ruined every original project they tried to push forward, and B) they unionized.

No wonder PP’s celebrating, then. The CPC hasn’t considered anything outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan to be “Canada” since they molted their Reform Party carapace.

I’d love to see the malcontents just leave. Nothing’s stipping them from moving south like they all seem to want to.

It’s not like they can just walk off with the land. Most of it is treaty land

It’s her middle name. That she was probably given at birth. This isn’t the gotcha you seem to think it is.

This is good enough for me. This means the Firefox code base will not get so integrated with AI features that forkers cannot remove them, and that was my primary concern.

Librewolf and Waterfox devs have both publicly said they wouldn’t be inclluding the AI stuff. Waiting on Floorp and Zen devs to weigh in still.

Well, with RAM prices already through the roof, and now SSD and GPU prices set to spike, I guess my plans for building a new desktop are out the window for the foreseeable future.

And now it’s not. The original developer bought it back a couple of years ago.

The bigger issue is that, like with all of the Firefox forks, it’s still using the Firefox code base and security updates, which is what’s about to go absolutely sideways. Removing the AI translator is one thing, but it sounds like they’re planning on totally fucking it all up at its core.

With no usable Firefox to use as a base, all of the forks are set to die on the vine.

They never seem to understand that trans men exist. They’re never accounted for, and when asked about them, they always seem to think you’re talking about trans women.

And tyre.

Because inflation is the devaluing of money due to the amount of money in circulation, not just “prices go up”. When prices increase due to a lack of competition, that’s something different.

I mean, satire is about highlighting truth through absurdity or irony. It’s really not satirical if it isn’t telling truth.

I mean, there’s a real difference between separating the art from the artist and separating the commodity from the producer. One is about enjoying or appreciating a work, while the other is about buying or funding it.

Capitalism looks to forcefully equate the two, and that’s really a more important discussion, but it’s not the same thing.

My parente had a 92 GTP. It was half the car of the later models, and I still miss it. There was just something about those Grand Prixes.

Lack of granular privacy / profile control

This has been covered. This is a content-sharing network. Emphasis on both sharing and network. This means things that are posted are, by design, sent across the network. It’s not a walled garden; it’s the antithesis of a walled garden.

The only way for your posts to be seen by people on other websites is for those posts to be sent to those other websites, openly.

Poor content discovery / lack of niche communities / limited diversity

This isn’t a Lemmy issue, but the fact that it keeps coming up again and again framed as one is telling of the giant misconception people have about the Fediverse in general, and “Lemmy” in particular.

Lemmy is not a website. Or a space. It’s a website engine. Complaining about the quality or variety of content “on Lemmy” is like complaining about the content “on WordPress”.

The content that is here is actually almost magically discoverable, because that content likely didn’t start where you are, and website search bars only search their own databases. This is as true of lemmy.dbzer0.com as it is of Google itself. That’s why webspiders exist, to bring the content of the internet into Google’s database.

Fragmentation across instances / duplication of communities

This is the nature of linking multiple different forum-based websites together. Some of them will have their own sub-forums for their own population to use that are similar to sub-forums on another website. Those two sub-forums may have similar, or even the same, name, but that doesn’t mean they should be treated as the same place by people outside of them.

The constant drive by people not using those sub-forums to consolidate said sub-forums, because of fucking aesthetics, is pretty directly disrespectful to the people using those sub-forums.

“Lemmy” is not a singular space. It’s a network of independent websites that have agreed to syndicate content. That means they are both in cooperation and competition with each other. Kicking and screaming that one or another should give up its own various cultures and nuances for the sake of some pan-fediverse whole is kind of a dick move.

It’s one thing if two websites just want to explicitly merge, but to just be like “why is there Burger King and McDonald’s on the same street? Everyone should just be in one burger joint!” is kinda entitled.

Bad User Experience (UX) / usability issues

Reddit users complaining that things are different isn’t really good evidence of bad UX. At least the NodeBB discussion is getting close to the fundamental issue, but everyone seems to want the solution to it to be to force websites running Lemmy servers to act as dumb nodes in someone else’s project. And you’re not going to get too many hobby site owners signing up for that.

The solution is to highlight the independence of Fediverse websites, but then you get everyone whining about how small it is, how hard it is to find things, blah blah blah.

Search and archive weak/incomplete

Search is actually pretty good, if you’re on a busy server. At least in my experience.

Archiving old content, though… That’s getting back into a whole “demand volunteers shoulder the responsibility for hosting other websites’ content indefinitely” thing.

Over-representation of particular content types (US-news, memes, agenda posts) and low content-quality

And we’re back to “users aren’t talking about what I want to hear”, which… K.

Weirdly enough, the American compulsion to try and annex us has deep roots, too. I’d guess equally deep.

'Tis a bit of a thorn in one’s side, aye.

The only real work is my work. The only person who deserves a living wage is meeeeee!

You can’t argue with results! Nova Scotia is notoriously rich and prosperous, after all!