That's .33 right? Inbox didn't have the vote buttons, context, mark as read etc but .34 fixes that. I'm on .34 but I can't open that image in the comment.
NoTime
joined 2 years ago
Good tip Master Yoda
It's a 2 day blackout for god's sake, and it's nearly at the end of it! Was it really necessary to do that?
The links under section 1 link to Reddit, may be an idea to host those elsewhere?
EDIT: I missed the link at the bottom, looks like it's all on rentry.co
Interesting, but 4/8 of the games you list are remakes/rereleases.
The post is over a month old, more like good timing to bring this to people's attention now haha.
I know why they are doing it, but I was wondering more about the timing. These have all been around for years but it seems recently there is a sudden push to remove third party apps.
Is there a new technology coming out, a new law, or as @[email protected] says is it just CEOs copying each other?
I suppose, especially when there is money to be made and/or saved.
Reddit, YouTube, Twitter - it seems like all companies want to suddenly shut down third party apps. Coincidence or is there something larger at play here?
Regarding your last paragraph, I agree. I'm subscribed to gaming in lemmy.ml and beehaw so see the same content twice regularly. Duplicate communities raise other concerns for me though:
Which one is the defacto community to join? Using the Gaming community as an example, maybe one leans more to images and the other has more meaty discussion threads just by way of who has joined those communities - nothing to do with the rules. But if you subscribe to both, the majority of the content may be duplicate posts instead? It's not clear from the community title alone.
Is the potential squandered as communities are potentially splintered? Maybe people just stick to one community without joining the other. It'll take time for a certain community to establish itself as the main community with the highest quality posts, but due to the volume of users on the main instances maybe there won't be a main community? Or maybe people won't even be aware of multiple communities for the same topic as the names are different, e.g. football Vs soccer.
Relay does this well: