Hopefully this time is different. This time the exodus is more widespread where voat got populated when reddit started banning nazis, pedophiles and necrophiliacs
Voat's problem was that it became VERY political very quickly. Hopefully we won't see that happen again, but I'm sure some of these substitutes will end up that way.
I have a feeling in reality most of them will die out, but enthusiasts (especially tech enthusiasts) will keep one alive, sort of like reddit in the early days.
As I remember it, VOAT's userbase essentially got taken over by Neo-Nazis and/or nazi sympathizers. I thought it was great that reddit had competition and then that happened.
I remember Voat. It's unfortunate it became an alt right hell hole because I liked the UI.
Also, I do agree that this has happened before and it's possible this could just have the same end result but I do think it's different this time. The last time, people were mad but it was for an easily forgettable reason. This time, mod tools are being ripped away from moderators and people are going to be forced to use the site from an app that they've actively avoided.
After these changes go through, every time a moderator tries to moderate their subreddit using only the terrible default tools or a mobile user uses the website through only the ad filled official app, they'll be reminded of how shitty the admins were.
I don't think Lemmy or kbin will reach the same levels of usage as reddit pre-this shit show but I do think reddit will take a huge hit with all of this.
The difference is that this time, they've managed to anger a large part of every demographic. Last time, it was a certain type of person and the remainder just said "don't slam the door on your way out".
You just have to love the fact, that an article about iPhones on a blog that publishes predominantly Apple centric content doesn’t display properly on an iPhone in Safari 😂
To be fair, Apple cut them off to serve their own first party ads. I have no sympathy for companies who have abused our privacy, but Apple is playing the hero while doing the same exact thing behind the curtain. I partake in and applaud them for the App Store and cookie tracking settings, but I'm playing devil's advocate.
Additionally, iOS17 is about to introduce UTM stripping from URLs, which is incredibly rude of them. UTM tracking is nowhere near as egregious as cookie tracking and it's going to really harm a lot of companies' ability to track any marketing campaigns whatsoever - including with those who have consented to said marketing. It will also break website components for sites people use everyday. e.g. if you click through a link embedded into an email and the website you are led to has dynamic content based on the UTM found in the email, that dynamic content is broken and you will probably not see what you want nor what the website designer intended. It's a silly addition that hurts Apple's competition across the web but benefits them greatly because they have first party control over your devices' backend.
Ditto. CarPlay actually works, and works well. It’s clean, simple, and easy to use. The buttons are big enough and clear enough to use while driving, which is supposed to be the point.
CarPlay wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place if auto manufacturers were any good at software design - but they’re NOT. I’ve driven cars without CarPlay. The interfaces are trash. GM forcing people to use a shitty interface because they don’t want to license a good one is a terrible, terrible idea. I have absolutely zero faith in their ability to do the job right. I won’t even consider a car that isn’t compatible with CarPlay.
Trying out art on my actual walls. I know I can kind of do that right now with ARKit, but it's not great; it's the kind of thing that Vision will handle beautifully. Also bringing home furniture. I'm looking for a new dining table, and the idea that I have to just drop two grand on this thing when I've only ever really imagined it in the space is kind of nuts. Sure, I can tape it out on the ground to see how big it is, check it fits, but that's still not going to help me know how it feels in the room.
I think it also would have been great recently when I got about fifty swatches of material in the post for blinds. While I think seeing the real thing is still going to be necessary, seeing the full blinds in Vision would have helped immensely.
Yeah, a lot of the hands-on reviews talk about the apparent permanence of objects in Vision Pro – that they don't shift about like objects in ARKit and other implementations. That alone would make a huge difference for applications like this.
The juiciest rumors hint to a new display technology, Capture button, and a special video capture mode. Even more astonishing could be generative AI features, which we could get a sneak preview of when iOS 18 is expected to be shown off at Apple’s WWDC 2024 developers conference in June.
I just wish they would allow their apps to be updated more than once a year (at best). It would be nice to have teams constantly working on improving messages, mail, calendar, etc.
Here’s the thing, until they can put out a value better than a $400 PS5, I don’t feel like it matters what they do. They’re stuck in an extraordinarily thin price niche where on one end you’ve got lower-priced consoles that blow Macs out of the water in gaming, and on the other end you’ve got similarly-priced traditional gaming PCs and laptops which also blow Macs out of the water for gaming. The “not having games” problem is entirely secondary here, Macs aren’t competing as gaming machines. They’re doing all this work to make it easier for developers to put their games on the platform, but not a single thought has gone into attracting consumers. The magic mouse completely blows for gaming, that’s not even a question, so why does Apple still handicap the experience for people using third-party mice? Why hold something like smooth scrolling ransom if they want people to take the platform seriously? I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe they’re just wanting to focus on controller players, great, so then consider that a controller doesn’t come with a Mac and that the same DualSense controller that Apple sells comes stock with that PS5.
It’s like they’ve got a small group of software engineers that want gaming on Mac to be viable but everyone else at the company missed the memo.
Aside from a handful of power users who customised the hell out of it, it was worse than useless. Especially if you were a touch typist who then had to LOOK at the keyboard ffs
Long story short, rumors suggest that both the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus will be stuck with a static 60Hz refresh rate. The iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max are expected to inherit the adaptive 1-120Hz refresh rate technology (dubbed ProMotion) of their respective predecessors, but many expectant iPhone fans were hoping that Apple might make this Pro-level feature available to every model in the iPhone 15 line.
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