That’s the point. It was happening under Tories and continues to happen under Labour. Either way, you seem to be very invested in supporting them as an outsider.

I don’t think UK is progressing. To be honest it seems to be regressing these days. Each new day it’s becoming more and more a police state with secret policing and surveilance powers being passed.

It’s really a personal perference since we all search differently. They each have strenghts based on different type of queries. I personally don’t like results from DuckDuckGo alone. Also they have their own crawler these days to sumpliment results from Bing API. https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot

I use a mix of all indexers with SearX and the best results for me come from Quant. But it’s nice to have all of them to compliment each other.

It’s just a proxy for Google and Brave results. They don’t have their own index. That said it’s a great alternative if you don’t like SearX.

I like your priorities. Music and drugs everything else is delegated to “etc…”.

It’s good alongside F-Droid, doesn’t really work as a complete replacement.

Unlimited growth is definitely not the metric federated services should lean towards, but discoverability is just basic user design concept that is mandatory for success. It doesn’t have to involve the same methods as those used by corporate social media, but there needs to be a user-friendly way for people to find each other or topics they are interested in. Going to external site is the opposite of user-friendly.

Lack of discoverability was always the primary issue for federated services adoption. Sure you can still find it from somehwere else, but that is not what most people expect. They type in the search and they expect to find it, and if they don’t then it doesn’t exist.

Heck, even Discord who for most of its existance swore to never implement public server list (due to their inability to deal with spam) caved because it’s a mandatory feature for any platform focused on social communications.

Your examples just proves my point.

• IRC is a niche protocol because of its unfriendliness to new users.
• Forums died to be replaced by social media because those centralized platforms offered easy discoverability.
• Lemmy communities are dominated by lemmy.world for the same lack of discoverability.
• Email being the exception due to lucky timing of it becoming mandatory ID for all internet services.

You or me can work around it, regular Joe/Jane won’t bother and move to something else.

It’s not centralized by implementation, but that’s what it does in practice. matrix.org is by far the biggest instance and now all the other public rooms will be hidden on there unless someone manually approves it. If more instances move to the same offered default preference now, discoverability is dead.

This is a bad move. While I don’t disagree with the issue they are trying to solve, centralizing the directory control is literally against the goal of the protocol itself. They should have created a proper replacement system instead.

It would be plausible if the number was recently changed. But it was old number and there were many conversations on the new number dating back to LTX and LTT channel hack.
Then they also reviewed the video script and included the message from that old number in their video. It would have been caught if it was a mistake.

And what do people do when they make an honest mistake? Oh, apologize. Haven’t seen them doing that. No it was well planned and executed.

Back then it wasn’t known to be scamming its users, only creators.

Absolutely nobody disputes that. But that’s not the criticism of them. It’s their excuse instead.

Which was also Linus reasoning for why they didn’t make a huge deal out of it because if they told the audience „btw, that thing that saves you money costs us money, so would you be so kind as to not use it so we can make more money instead“, they would have been the assholes back then.

That is pure gaslighting. They could have easily said:

We recently learned that one of our sponsors turned out to be stealing affiliate revenue from creators and as a result we are dropping them as a sponsor and making this video to spread the news. That said if you still find it useful, you can keep using it to save money when shopping.

They would have been praised by their audience, consumers and creators.

I wouldn’t expect if it was random recommendation in one of their videos. But yes, it is their responsibility to notify about it when they got paid thousands of dollars to promote it.

Because they got paid thousands of dollars to promote it. When you accidentally promote a scam on your channel, you then go and apologize on the same channel when you learn about it. It’s basic accountability.

They did that with their other sponsors they dropped for lesser reasons like Private Internet Access. Even the whole scandal with Asus was handled better even if they tuned out to be lairs and went back to working with them.

Being focused on your business is not an issue on its own. The infuriating part is the way postures himself as defender of that community and social media tech space in general when his actions go against them time and time again. The duplicity is what makes him unserious and untrustworthy.

It wasn’t a secret he saw the video early. https://gamers.nexus/ethics-statements/contact-vs-no-contact

What lack of objectivity do you see? From what I saw for every factual claim he provided sources/receipts and the rest was his opinion.

When you write books, plural, do you just want to read them all while not having them influence your own imagination? which i could totally understand. Because otherwise from a spoiler perspective the two movies just adapt the first novel.

I don’t particularly like adaptations in general since most of them are only made to cash in on the popular name. But when something not completely shit is made I like to go into it with having consumed original medium and then be able to compare and speculate the different reasons for the decisions made in the adaptation.

I was under the impression that many large blockbuster productions nowadays have similar sized marketing budgets. Maybe $150m is a bit on the high side for Wicked, but from a quick search Dune Part II also seems like it had a roughly $100m one.

It used to be rare. But with Barbie’s gamble paying off, everyone thinks it’s the winning strategy now. I’m just proving them wrong. :)

We are pretty much in sync. The major difference being calls to violence. Ignoring how I personally feel, it’s illegal under UK law where instance is hosted. So the terms of service explicitly forbid it. Though instance admin haven’t ruled out moving to other jurisdiction, especially since the latest adult content law being passed there.

Threats of violence or harm: Any threats or incitement of violence against individuals or groups, including threats of terrorism or personal harm.

https://legal.lemmy.zip/posts/terms_of_service/

I skipped 2 on purpose. Dune: Part Two (not watching until I finish the books) and Wicked (too overhyped, if you need $150 millions to spend on marketing something, it’s not worth watching in my mind).

I heard of Nosferatu, Inside Out 2 and Gladiator II, but many of the other entries didn’t even catch my eye throughout the year.

Looking at my stats, It has been a light year on movies for me. Only 9 movies I saw were released in 2024.

My standout was Hounds of War (2024), not worth any nominations, but it really surprised me.

Not sure if I’m just not watching that many movies anymore, or I value different things in those that I watch, but I have seen 0 movies from this year’s list. Wild.