China haven’t had a war since the 70s, so until they decide to go for Taiwan I’m cool with them at this point.

God knows where the money went, but it was most definitely just an inferior version of VRChat that constantly advertised to you and asked you for money.

And then they tried to shove microtransactions and NFTs into said product before users even had legs.

I wish I had the storage space for that.

As a European? Why is it waffles that cause the behaviour I’ve heard about this place?

Ah bugger, I brought my knife!

Sorry guys.

I can’t shake the feeling all of this is a Russian master plan.

Not to be conspiritorial, but everything seems to be working out in their favour from Brexit to Trump II.

Poor Sandy! She deserves extra cookies!

Should’ve sent them a picture of someone else’s dick for maximum confusion.

Apple can make Chrome book equivalents, they want you to rent compute power not computers.

Natively you’d be able to run VLC on a good day if you’re lucky, but everything else will be online with a subscription attached.

Man, I was hoping to save for a PC but it’s not looking likely any tie soon. At least I have my steamdeck.

Honestly variety is the spice of life, and keeping up with the zeitgeist is half of why people like to be online. I think this is a very good point!

I mean for me it was a recent decision to delete for-profit and algorithmic social media. But that was internally driven as I realised they were making me more miserable and I couldn’t stomach the advertising anymore. But I’ve always failed to replicate that feeling in other people who are stuck in a mixture of sunk cost fallacy and boiled frog status, no idea how to do it consistently.

God save the king eh chap?

At least ours has more class than your new one. 😉

Wonder what else he’s cheated at eh?

The main problem with new YouTube alternatives is that creators rely on Google for income, switching to a new platform means becoming destitute. No premium content means no big audience means new platforms fail. It’s the one social media I really don’t see having its monopoly broken.