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  • Yes sorry, I know there is more complexity than what I implied. I think it came from a position of frustration that Kbin has been DDoSing lemmy instances for months due to some bug causing junk activities to be sent in huge numbers, in addition to Kbin being the primary source of spam for lemmy. I’ll remove my comment as I can’t stand behind it.



  • Dave@lemmy.nztoFediverse@lemmy.worldCan someone take over KBin?
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    I like the idea of Sublinks for this reason. They wanted to create a Lemmy alternative, but they are maintaining Lemmy API compatibility. That way they build one piece at a time. The Lemmy frontend Tesseract was forked from Photon, and then became the Sublinks front end. But it’s still also a Lemmy frontend because they work with the same API structure.

    In addition, Lemmy apps all work with Sublinks as well.

    This way, they could focus on just the backend component, and rely on Lemmy components for the other pieces until they are able to get everything in house. Though they have a plan to keep Lemmy API compatibility, so there will always be this big pile of apps and web frontends that can be used with both.



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    Kbin still has that bug. Lemmy.world is actively throttling the number of activities it accepts from Kbin as if they don’t, they then federate these out to other servers and it impacts on the ability of those servers to keep up with the genuine Lemmy.world content.

    Even with this throttling some are struggling to keep up.


  • The beautiful thing about decentralisation is that if an instance tries to as ads, then you can go to a different instance and see the same content.

    If an instance creates as posts, your instance admin can block the whole instance.

    Interestingly, the big instances seem to easily get enough donations to cover costs. I think that’s the great thing about this model, people are willing to donate when they know it’s not some big corporate making profit for shareholders.




  • Lemmy has algorithms, it’s just that they aren’t designed to maximise profit.

    If you have the sort type set to Hot, posts are ranked based on score (upvotes minus down votes) with a decay based on post time. Active is the same but based on the last comment time.

    If you are on the website, there is a ? next to the sort option that will take you to a page explaining how the different options work.

    But long story short, most sorting options are affected by down votes.


  • As another poster alluded to, digital goods aren’t really considered property in the traditional sense. Digital property is protected under copyright (and other IP laws). The owner could sell the game, but then they wouldn’t own it anymore (e.g. when one game studio buys another, they are buying the games as well). Instead, they grant a licence to use the game, which is how Steam works as well.

    If Steam let you transfer your account to someone else (e.g. bequeath or sell it), then they would need this in the licence (which they could do in theory). Other than the logistics of that (especially how to handle people selling accounts - and the scammers that inevitably come with that), the AAA publishers are unlikely to agree to those terms. Ultimately the Steam licence is likely a compromise between Steam’s vision and all the AAA publishers that wouldn’t publish on Steam if they didn’t get the licence they wanted. A bit like how Netflix doesn’t really care if you use a VPN, they just have to enforce it so studios will let them use their content.





  • Personally, most stuff is in cloud storage. For local stuff I use syncthing.

    But for the average person, I’d expect using iCloud, Google Drive, Onedrive, or Dropbox and then creating a shareable link for the other person.

    I also can’t remember the last time I used a USB drive for anything other than installing an OS.