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Are Email addresses kept and logged anywhere, or are they discarded after registration?

For privacy reasons, it'd be nice if we could somehow have a reliable bot blocking/spam blocking method that doesn't require Email.

While Email adds a good layer of spam blocking just from the spam blocking the email providers are doing themselves, having an option to verify with Email OR jump through multiple hoops instead would be cool. Hoops that are difficult for a bot to be programmed to defeat all of them. Such as captcha, with a simple math equation, and something else all combined.

Just tossing ideas around, because this is all still being built out.

What are the typical actors in the Reddit and twitter spam scene? And what's the likelihood of each type setting up on here now?

• Product spamming, to advertise.

• PR companies that offer to sway community opinions, upvote/down vote for their clients.

• State actors with various propaganda intent.

• Preparing the bot accounts early in order to sell them to PR companies or other actors above.

• Actors incentivized to try to turn this service into a shit hole to keep users in the normal channels for some reason or other. Give it financial incentives or ability to control narratives on other platforms.

• Bots push financial related news stories or sentiment, eg. Trying to pump crypto markets.

These are just ideas off of the top of my head of the type of bots or actors running them. But I don't really have any experience with it, just wondering what everyone's thinking the intent is.

I'n thinking it could happen over 20-30 yrs, they won't collapse, but erode from where they are now.

A path to the decline could be decentralization of services combined with crypto currency. Money and infrastructure seems to be mostly what tech companies provide. Regulatory moats or other barriers to entry around payments logistics is a way they can still grip onto their positions.

Decentralized shopping, logistics (think decentralized Uber for package deliveries), and payments through crypto (BTC, stable coins, whatever), could be a path forward to break part of Amazon.

Web only services or middleman only services I think are a bit easier for them to sort of break out on their own, sort of like Lemmy and fediverse is. It'd just take longer for the quality of all of this to get better.

Given the launch dates, isn't that just the standard console cycle anyway? ~6-7 years?

Given how close to PCs they are now hardware wise, it'd be environmentally friendly if they had upgrade modules available for CPU,GPU, RAM. Sort of like they have with storage now.

Just package and socket the modules in such a way that it's a easy upgrade for console users.

The financial shit heads weasel their way into everything and fuck it up on us. This is what I like about this setup here, from the ground up it doesn't seem like it can be bought our and IPO'd.

The man eventually tried to buy and financialize everything. The fuck up all of these great things we have, then make up some bullshit about the valie they add. Lemmy+fediverse is is a great idea, it will be awesome after a little more dev and improvement.

We've been down this road many times before where the man fucks up our shit, imagine how much farther downhill it'll go in the future if they IPO and start getting pressured for more short term profits. Not everything needs to be monetized, we can have some nice not for profit services for the people by the people.

I dual boot with the AE5 Plus, win11 and Ubuntu. I find on Ubuntu it will not switch between headphone mode and speaker mode. When switching these modes under windows, I can hear a physical click from the card, I'm guessing that's the sound of a relay.

The only way to unstick it is to power off my machine. If I start Ubuntu, then later reboot Into windows without a full power off, the card stays stuck and won't let me cycle between external speakers or headphones.