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And do they look like they still have a viable business model?

Ah yes, the good ol’ pivot to video. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_to_video

It should be publicly-funded, like infrastructure. Having a video sharing platform is clearly very important, but I don’t think there are any companies that are both capable of running it and trustworthy enough to do so.

Every platform wants to be every other platform nowadays

What did they do wrong? They’re just providing value by offering consumers free pets with their food!

In a sense, it’s the only way

This song starts playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqanQ9DPgV8

Even if they would, look what at happened to Bleem. They successfully argued in court that the PS1 emulator they were selling was legal, but Sony kept suing them until Bleem went bankrupt paying legal fees. That was an actual corporation, too. What hope does an individual artist have?

Or, more accurately, they aren’t prepared for the legal battle that would ensue

The final creation of Dr. Light and the main character of the Mega Man X games

Looks great, but do the windows jiggle when you drag them? Mine do

Honestly, I would take the look of Windows XP over the look of Windows 10/11 or current MacOS. Of course, I’m on Linux, so I actually can do that

If it was Fischer-Price, it would be colorful. This is just the sort of bland, generic website UI you see everywhere

For those who take this seriously: don’t. Security by obscurity does not work.

They’ve been sucking for longer than they’ve been losing

Because it’s not the AI that’s taking away jobs, but the executives hoping to cut costs regardless of creativity, quality, or ethics.

Not surprising, considering Musk used it back then too.

Defederation is an important tool to protect communities. It helps prevent the Fediverse from being overrun with bad actors.

Or just stealing someone’s phone, doing whatever they want to do, toss it in a river, and not have anything traced back to them

Hey, you’ll find them, have heart!