You’re missing the point.

Pornography addiction is a real thing.

I don’t think citronella actually does anything.

If she is gone … What will the community do then?

I think Empress disappearing would be a net-positive for the cracking scene.

If there is nobody cracking the latest releases, the pressure will mount for new crackers to enter the scene. And perhaps we’ll get a new generation of crackers that bring some competition back into the space.

There’s also a lot of money involved in pirated games, with shops in poorer countries selling cracked games for pennies on the dollar to people who would otherwise be unable to afford, or even download the latest games.

So it’s my opinion that denuvo cracking will never go away, it’ll just evolve over time, like it has since the beginning.

You need to delete “cookies and site data” for your browser in order to resume using your Lemmy account.

I think this is a problem for people who are unaware of the hack or how to fix their account, since they’ll just think Lemmy is broken, and lose interest.

This is a great thing, but mass adoption should still be refrained from

Mass adoption would be great as long as it happens naturally over time, and not a result of the “we must grow” mentality of Silicon Valley.

Like Reddit, the massive “default” areas would be fairly low quality, with the culture being a reflection of the broader population. But the smaller specialized communities would be beacons of light for people looking for nuanced conversation.

With the way the fediverse is structured, the negative aspects of mass adoption would be simpler to avoid, simply by curating an instance to show content from the communities you’re interested in.

I can’t think of a better omen for the future of the free internet, than to have most people using a FOSS social media site as their primary online hub. It would certainly be better than allowing all online communication to be controlled by a handful of billionaires with goals that are harmful to society.

But again, this needs to happen naturally, by virtue of Lemmy just being a great place to share content, and without the goal of simply making the most money possible.

Even in relatively corruption-free countries, there are often shadow mechanisms the governments uses to decide who they charge with a crime.

Prosecutors can just say they don’t have a case, or they can fumble the case purposefully in the initial stages to give credence to the “no case” idea.

We don’t have to look any further than how police charge themselves to see how the laws don’t fairly apply to everyone. And a simple google search will reveal that Sweden is not immune to police corruption, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.

“Disobeying police orders”, which is what Thunberg was charged with, is one of those catch-all laws that are purposefully vague in a way that allows police total discretion over how to enforce it.

I guarantee in this case that calls were made all the way up the top of the Swedish government before police decided what to do here.

Basically, my point is that there are so many strings to pull, even in developed countries, that it’s often possible to suss out the motivations of the administration just by examining how charges proceed.

What this says about Thunberg getting charged for her actions? Probably nothing significant. Sweden cannot allow activists to freely disrupt their economic infrastructure, especially those involving energy. So they charge her as “normal” regardless of her celebrity status. Though they will be very careful to do everything by the book with so many eyes on the case.

I pay a few bucks a month for access to a giant plex share.

It’s worth it to just, watch stuff, basically anything, instead of fiddling around with different apps and subscriptions and all that.

I’d happily pay a lot more for the same legal service, but it doesn’t exist.

Studios, if you want my money, make everything available in one spot for a reasonable price. Or, continue your bastardization of everything, and I’ll just keep watching your stuff anyway.

I was gonna say the same thing but then I saw the 2200-something upvotes.

This community is doomed to be exactly like the low effort meme sub r/piracy if people keep upvoting this lazy content.

I don’t think anyone would even notice next to the garbage that’s already served by default on Reddit.

Motherland if I’m not mistaken.

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Plex DMCA’d my private server a few months ago.

So I cancelled my Plex Pass and moved on to greener pastures.

They seem to be doing everything they can to get rid of their foundational userbase so they can attract… Ad supported free TV watchers?..

What morons are running the show in Silicon Valley?

Won’t all nsfw content be invisible to third-party apps?

So people aren’t paying to keep reddit alive, they’re paying to have some advertiser friendly, bot-ridden husk of reddit available outside the official app.

Those outsized API fees don’t even get you the original reddit experience, it’s disgusting.

I don’t blame the dev, but I also don’t understand his decision.

Advertisers keep pushing for a more and more obtrusive browsing experience, while shoving consumerist junk in my face to try and drain my wallet.

And I’m just supposed to be okay with that?

Nope, I block all the ads I can.

Isn’t karma just like an anti-spam mechanism that barely works?

And you get karma just by posting whatever the community wants to hear. So it’s not like it shows how enlightened you are or anything.

Anyway, one thing that bothered me about Reddit’s karma system, is that people would delete their comments if they got a few downvotes, even if they had something important to say.

Here on Lemmy, you can quickly see both upvotes and downvotes. So if someone says something controversial due to politics or whatever, they’re less likely to delete their comment because they can see “ahh, I’m not just being mercilessly attacked, 50 people upvoted me.”

That can be abused I guess, but I like that it promotes discussion that isn’t just echo-chamber nonsense. We’ll just have to see how it works in practice.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense.

Basically dirty fuckers ruining it for everyone else.

In general, torrenting doesn’t require port forwarding.

I’ve said it before, but I really think that “Reddit Gold” was an excellent non-invasive monetization strategy.

Gold didn’t really do much but put a little coin above a comment, and it supported the site for a long time without having to pump in advertising, which many people would block anyway.

I gilded a total of 3 times maybe, over the years. And that $12 or whatever was way more than Reddit ever got out of me from ads, since I block them all.

Is there a way I can view which instances are defederated?

I don’t mind/am glad not seeing self harm stuff and CSAM content, but if this instance is disconnecting from piracy and hacking related content I’d like to be aware of that.

On these types of forums I always figure if I forget my password then it’s time to make a new account anyway.

Nothing I post here is essential to me, and I can always find past exchanges from any random account.

And personally, I figure the longer I post under a single persona, the easier it is to connect that persona to my real identity. So account switching is good every once in a while.