Do you remember how long ago the last few open registration periods were? I’ll try to keep my eyes open but it will help to know when to check more frequently. I use NZBGeek currently but OzNZB seems to be gone and I always prefer to have at least 2 for redundancy.

This is about the most uniquely Oregon story I’ve ever read. And I mean that in the absolute best way.

Duckduckgo.com uses Bing as its back-end. Honestly I prefer both to Google anymore.

I can’t help but notice how similar their phrasing is to Spez trying to justify why they’ve yanked the rug out from under the third party app developers.

Firefox already has the Lemmy Link extension to do this. It seems to work pretty well from what I’ve seen.

How are you going to exchange cash for crypto in one hour?

If he’d announced that they were going to force the app developers to share ad revenue or charge users a reasonable monthly fee for ad-free access and share that with Reddit, I think the backlash would have been far less.

But that’s not what Steve wants. He wants to get all the ad revenue AND be able to track user activity to sell to the data brokers/advertisers. This was never going to be a situation that we users found reasonable.

We’re entering a world where corporate media - be that music, television, movies, books, even political messaging - will soon be 99% algorithm driven. Train once, repeat ad infinitum. They already have an idea of how long it takes for public appetite to grow tired of the familiar and start craving new, and that will guide how often the algorithm should be re-trained. Meanwhile we, the consumers, will be kept fat and happy in our metaphorical pens being dished up a constant supply of delicious, processed food entertainment manipulation while they milk us for every dollar, minute, and vote that they can.

Neither am I, friend. I still miss Windows 7 most of the time.

Technically Windows 11 is just a slightly re-skinned continuation of Windows 10. They just had to make it a new version so that they could add in the extra boot security requirements (plus they didn’t want to force the new skin on existing Win10 users immediately). But as long as you have a new enough machine then you can upgrade to WIn11 no problem if you want the new features. And if you like where you are, you can continue to use Win10 for another 2 years plus.

So do they intend to defederate from all instances with open registration? Because there are a lot out there…