I’ve been here 2 years, and this is the first I’m hearing of this.

…ok, I honestly can’t tell if you’re in on the joke, or if you’re being a nutjob.

Or, maybe they’re trying to kill adblockers so hard that they killed the whole homepage.

“Well if we can’t block the adblockers, we’ll just block EVERYBODY! No more Mr Beast for anyone!”

Eh…Digg is like the little brother that wants to be cool, but just ends up burning down his own house.

Now, you may be thinking,

“But Lost_My_Mind! You burned down your own house when you were 5 years old! And you’re the little brother of the family!”

And that’s all true. But you see, the difference is…I was never trying to be cool.

IDK that just doesn’t seem important.

I’m fine leaving my old account behind.

Then we have different viewpoints. I’m very much NOT ok with leaving my old account behind.

If AI hadn’t banned me on reddit, I’d be much happier over there. I’d have my old account, and all my post history going back 10 years. Which by this point would be more like 12 or 13 years.

It’s not important to you, but it’s important to me. Just because youhave an opinion doesn’t make it “the right way”. Everyone can have different opinions, and thats ok.

Literally 3 months after I got here, and started figuring out how the fediverse worked, I was calling for changes. Quite frankly, what I thought the fediverse was is a lot cooler than what it actually is.

I can post a picture here from pixelfed, but it’s no different than posting a picture from imgur.

So the account history is all I have to look back at.

But your upvotes and comment history don’t.

Reddit refused access to API, and people left reddit.

Lemmy.world is refusing access to the pirate instances.

By your logic, people should leave Lemmy.

How often are they just bursting into flames for no reason?

Ok everybody. You heard them! Everybody talk about discuss.tchncs.de! Let’s ALL form opinions and talk at length about them!

Unclear if AI bot, or insane person having a stroke.

I get the rest of them, but why is “gay republican” there? I’m not saying he isn’t, but why is being gay one of the insults?

People want access to the defederated instances, on lemmy.world.

People don’t want to switch.

Because nothing has changed?

I don’t have solid advice for what you SHOULD buy, but I will say this. Whatever device you pick, you’re wrong. You made the wrong choice.

Now here’s the reason for that. Go on youtube, and watch RetroGameCorps videos about the Retroid Pocket 5. It only came out about a year ago, and he gave glowing reccomendations. He wasn’t lying. It genuinely is/was a great device.

Then the Retroid pocket Flip 2 came out. Which only came out a few months later. It is the exact same device just housed in a different shell. Nothing extra. Nothing less. Just a different form factor. It got the same praise.

Then a few months later the Retroid Pocket 6 came out. And now it’s the latest and greatest. Agaibln, he’s not lying, but I’m sure in a year there will be the next Retroid.

And that’s just ONE company. There are dozens of companies. Each putting out half a dozen devices each year.

Because, you see, with Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, they release games. Each console is a platform. They want you to buy the console, and stay on that console for half a decade. That way they can sell you a games library. For games that haven’t even entered development yet, they want to sell you that game 3 years from now.

With Ambernic, and Retroid, and Miyoo and all the others, they don’t sell games. They sell you a console, that you will use to emulate games that you already have. Their sales, and profit lives and dies within a single transaction. So they need to CONSTANTLY be innovating. They need to CONSTANTLY be releasing the newest latest and greatest.

But that formula has some SERIOUS cliffs that will approach very quickly.

You see, I bought a retroid flip 2 last year. Now I see Retroid has the Retroid pocket 6. A vast improvement over the hardware I have. And I’m sure in a few months they’ll release the Retroid Flip 3. Which is just the Pocket 6 in a new shell.

So, do I go out and buy the pocket 6? Do I wait for the Flip 3?

No. I’ve already bought the Flip 2. This is my device. And now we reach the cliff. These companies probably sold these devices like hot cakes the first few years. Because nobody had them. But eventually you’ll run out of power. You’ll catch up to modern consoles. And theres only so many ways you can emulate the same games. Add that to the fact that consumers aren’t going to spend $50-$300 every 4 months, and you have a novelty industry that is being supported currently on a bubble.

Right now, they still have room to grow, but they will approach that cliff of having already sold everybody a console recently. Thats when the market will suddenly fall off a cliff, and the bubble will pop.

But no single company can slow down either, because then they get left behind, as all the other companies continue to release better consoles every month.

So if a company keeps pace, they’re headed for the cliff faster, but if they slow down they get left behind and lapped by the other consoles that are already lapping them.

So for consumers, it means no matter what you choose, it’s always the wrong choice. I could say I ahould have waited a few months for the pocket 6. But I like the flip form. Should I wait for the Flip 3? And if I did that, would the Pocket 7 be just around the corner?

So I say figure out which generations of hardware you want to emulate, and pick a handheld that can do that. Once you buy, DON’T FOLLOW THE INDUSTRY ANYMORE! Put your blinders on. Forget whats coming out next month, and enjoy what you have.

I don’t care how advertisers feel. I’ve been telling them for decades that their ads have zero effect on me. That it just pisses me off.

When I go into a grocery store, I have a list. If it’s not on that list, I’m not buying it. The list was prepared weeks ago, and added as I run out of things. Doesn’t matter if you show 100 ads. I’m not paying attention. Even though you paid money to show the ad, I still didn’t see it. What difference does it make if I’m alive? Either way I didn’t see the…uh…what were you selling again? It was a commercial for Jesus? See, this just shows how little I pay atttention to ads. I saw the superbowl, and I’m fairly sure one of the commercials was for Jesus. I’m unclear how one would buy Jesus, but that was the ad.

Tell ya what advertiser industry. I’m going to do your job for you. I’m going to make sure every single person pays attention to every ad you ever put out. Are you ready for this? Here we go.

The screen fades in from black to a closeup of some tittys. They’re bouncing around, and women are moaning. Then they start moaning “OOOOOHHHH, YEEEAAAAHHHH BUY OUR PRODUCT, BUY THE PRODUCT! OOOOHHHHH!”

Remember, tittys are still bouncing. You put the product in the center of the screen.

You just made a billion dollars!

Found the appropriate response.

Hold on …

Are you saying all software hosted on github is infected with copilot? Or am I misreading the situation?

Yes, but you are the minority.

I dated a girl over the summer, and we were watching youtube videos in bed.

My phone has revanced, and it kills all the ads.

Then she shows me one of her videos.

It was…oh my god. Do you have ANY idea how awful the vanilla youtube experience is?

And thats just how most people watch it. They just watch youtube, with the official app. Ads and all, and are fine with it.

So even if all the fediverse minded people quit youtube in unison, it would still be less than 1% of their viewership.

No lies detected.