It was weird that they thought they could sell enough of these at this price point for it to make sense to release it as an actual product instead of a dev kit at all. I don’t think anyone besides them and Apple fanboys looked at this and felt it made any sense from a business standpoint. Not even people who are very much committed to VR being the future.

Very sorry to hear that, a legend has passed. Just watched LGR’s react to the Computer Chronicles 1987 Christmas Episode the other day… I may need to schedule a Computer Chronicles marathon soon in light of this news.

right, by all accounts fentanyl is not something these boats are likely to be trafficking at all.

decentralization doesn’t have a particularly specific meaning. Federation absolutely qualifies for having a certain degree of it. You can be more or less decentralized ranging from completely monolithic to fully p2p. Then there are related properties like the ability to migrate or anonymity.

well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.

thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.

where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

It’s not just a label but it guarantees practically nothing because it only means they are allowed to consider things other than shareholder profit. It doesn’t in any way ensure that they do and a PBC is mostly treated just the same as a for-profit company.

Obviously it isn’t just the team that owns Bluesky at this point since they have had multiple rounds where they’ve raised venture capital. That is an old bit of information that I think they still have up on the site despite it being both vague and obviously false.

They’re not. In practice PBC status doesn’t really limit them very much at all and is nothing like nonprofit.

yeah I’m aware… doesn’t really refute anything I said. If he holds a share then he can do what any investor can do and how much he can do depends on how big his share of the company is.

At the very least it would buy more time as they are not just doing whatever the leader of the other party demands of them. As long as democracy is functioning enough for it to even be possible for the opposition candidates to win you should do everything you can to make that happen. It’s a whole different ballgame when that slips away.

Ideally (when it comes to the US) what stops him is that those kinds of orders would not be carried out or state officials would resist them. If that doesn’t happen it could be a Ukraine’s Maidan type situation where violence against protestors only creates more anger and eventually the pressure on politicians in power is high enough for them to do something. For Trump that would be enough Republicans finally standing up for the people instead of sucking up to the wannabe dictator…

Without a connected political action that the energy is channeled into the protests would be ineffective but the political action can be just people voting en masse as long as there are still fair elections where they can do that.

can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.

Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn’t good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.

no that was in fact the Bluesky CEO. See: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/

This was a treat for a fan and someone who played the originals when they were new. Well-made high resolution update to graphics, wonderful new versions of the music by Klepacki & The Tiberian Sons and so many extras. Loved seeing all the takes of the live action videos.

You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)

Yeah I think they’ve stopped short of really saying they’re committed to making everything free so expecting them to open more but still not everything is probably what you can realistically count on… we’ll see though.

This is the latest announcement I’ve seen on it: https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/open-sourcing-proceeding/24689

Maybe so but being a single division in a company is very different from being an independent company anyway. I would also say that Jolla itself has certainly liked to portray themselves as “doing open source” for a long time but they have not had as concrete plans as the current ones for actually opening the OS up at any point in time before.