Yes because there are certain areas where paid actors, including bots, overwhelm any organic discussion. I have discussions about stuff like that in private chats with people I actually know.

The original company is not.

On February 13, 1996, Atari agreed to merge with JTS Inc., a short-lived maker of hard disk drives, in a reverse takeover to form JTS Corporation.[4][2] The reverse merger was completed on July 30, 1996.[1] Atari’s role in the new company largely became a holder for most of its properties. Most of Atari’s staff members were either dismissed or resigned, and its Atari Interactive division was quickly shut down,[27] with the remainder of its employees being relocated to JTS’s headquarters.[5][28] Consequently, the Atari name almost vanished from the consumer market.

On March 13, 1998, JTS Corporation sold the Atari name and assets to Hasbro Interactive for $5 million,[3] less than a fifth of what Warner Communications had paid 22 years earlier. The transaction primarily involved the brand and intellectual property rights, which Hasbro Interactive largely used as a brand name for retro game releases.[a][b]

On January 29, 2001, Hasbro Interactive was sold to Infogrames,[31] which renamed it Infogrames Interactive and then the Atari Interactive name in 2003. The present day Atari Interactive, through Atari SA, continues to hold and license all Atari trademarks as well as produce many new games, some based on Atari’s original properties, to this day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Corporation

This reads more like the panic of an addict who thinks they’re about to be cut off and less like a coherent take on the issue.

In reality, even if this passes the Senate, TikTok will be sold to a US-based holding company. Little will change for the end user. It isn’t going to shut down. And even if it did shut down (which it won’t ), this article really cheapens the meaning of “tragedy.”

Trickle down wasn’t invented in the 1980s. It was a rebranding of what was previously pilloried as horse and sparrow economics in that if you let horses gorge on oats, some undigested oat will pass through their systems and be deposited in the fields for the sparrows to eat.

Gee, I wonder why they rebranded.

This is how sync has run for almost a decade? I’m not sure why one would jump to the conclusion that it’s abandoned. Love it or hate it, it is completely in line with how the dev has run his project for years.

And throughout the 1930s you had bootleggers and gangsters with Tommy guns terrorizing urban areas across America with gangland shootings and widespread abductions since they outgunned the police. What happened? The feds got bigger guns and passed gun control to get machine guns off the street. And this was actually possible back then because the NRA was still a legitimate civil society organization emphasizing responsible gun ownership and not yet a glorified marketing campaign for arms manufacturers.

The OPs question is basically a false premise born of forgetting history.

Cult people using the cult as an excuse/justification to behave like selfish assholes. A tale as old as time.

When are the rest of us going to get sick of this petulant bullshit?

Despite the iPhone-focused interface, I’ve found myself using Voyager/Wefwef the most. Liftoff is second. Jerboa is third as it is functional, but just doesn’t seem to match my work flow.

I also have Thunder and Connect, but I don’t find myself using those as much.

I’m also patiently waiting for Sync.

In a certain way this feels like Sega of the 90s decided to make an add-on for the PS5 after playing a whole bunch of WiiU.

I’m not super familiar with Bacon reader nowadays, but Sync has a list view and a compact view that cram quite a few posts onto the screen. Hopefully its comparable.

Reddit never produced any content. The users did.

Users move. Content moves.

I mostly prefer to play FPS on the PC, but the Switch having gyro controls on a number of FPSes is the next best thing. Sticks alone feels like auto-aim BS most of the time, but stick gyro does a decent job of replicating the feel of aiming with a mouse in a different form factor. IMO, Sticks+gyro is the future. It’s just a shame people dismiss it without trying because of experiences back on the Wii.

/c/Leopardsatemyface ?

It’s weird they are touting their sign up process.

I tried to sign up on Beehaw multiple times on multiple days and could never complete the process despite manually typing out answers to their inane questions several times. Some of the times it would just time out. When it would go through, I’d never get a response on my account.

So I ended up on lemmy.world.

And let’s be honest, it’s not like ChatGPT couldn’t generate responses to those questions. In a certain sense, maybe them self-quarentining is a good thing for this and other reasons. I guess that’s also part of the point of federation vs a single entity in control of everything.

For me it’s been pretty great. Lemmy and the fediverse kinda remind me of reddit circa 2007 or 2008 before the eternal September. I’m going to enjoy this for as long as it lasts.

I may be missing something, but the article completely loses the thread when it starts grousing over "why won’t the 3Ps pay up? " Because even if they pay, NSFW content is still not available for users. Reddit is attempting to force third party devs to charge for an inferior product, which is obviously untenable for all parties.