delcake

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

As any good legal question goes, I imagine the answer is one of the many shades of "It depends."

Ultimately it's going to come down to how accommodating Reddit wants to be if rightsholders lawyers come around demanding an explanation for why Reddit facilitates the piracy of their works. Generally a platform doesn't have liability for infringing content posted on it as long as they are responsive to requests to take it down.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't consider myself a power user on ebook servers by any means, but I spun up Kavita a few weeks back and it definitely handles everything I need it to so far. Feels better to use than calibre IMO too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I don't really expect any further voting on any given subreddit's side to be particularly successful from this point on because of that.

But honestly I'm kind of okay with a slower start on this side of things. If we see any kind of concentrated surge of users on to the various /kbin or Lemmy instances then I think we'll find out really quick where the breaking point is from an infrastructure and moderation standpoint. Like a few others have mentioned in this thread, we don't really need Reddit to die - we just need these alternatives to grow in to viable platforms in their own right.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I don't have hard numbers or anything but I wouldn't be surprised if the active Reddit users today consisted more heavily of people that are pissed that they were inconvenienced by the blackout.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The best mods are the ones that have the good sense to turn down the position. ;P

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I can see that. To maybe overgeneralize, the people that are active on reddit today will consist primarily of the people that were inconvenienced by the protest. Quite a lot of them are pissed that they were inconvenienced. Support for the protest on the platform will kind of evaporate because the majority that understand why it was necessary are already gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This is actually really clever, I might have to steal this idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fantastic recommendation on Casiopeia, and yeah - jazz fusion ended up having quite a large influence on VGM. I was amazed when a buddy of mine started pointing out some of the connections. T-SQUARE is also worth a listen, for anyone wanting more music in this style.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mitsuda might just rank as my favorite video game composer of all time, and it's largely due to his work in Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross. As time goes on and I discover more games he's had a hand in, my opinion really only grows stronger.

What a legend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Shadow of the Colossus fits the bill on this one for me. Jacob Geller's video on the decade-long search for the game's last secret is a much watch IMO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQNeYbBiCKw

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly that's a big reason that Personas 3, 4, and 5 stand as some of my favorite games. Letting a player focus on the main character's relationships with the supporting cast around them just makes the main story hit that much harder when it involves all of these people you've ended up forming strong feelings about.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, firing spez and the leadership team that pushed this forward is the bare minimum for showing contrition here. I'm not against a paid API that has prices based in reality instead of whatever the hell they gave us, but fundamental changes to an API like this require a minimum 12 months lead time before the change goes active.

The 30 days they gave shows an intentional disregard for the business continuity and contractual obligations of the developers who utilize the API.

view more: ‹ prev next ›