A lot of this stems from instances running old versions with loose registration requirements, like no captcha. This is a problem in a federated system because there’s no barrier for a banned user to just jump to another instance.

Perhaps it would be a good idea if, when Lemmy has anti-spam measures implemented like rate-limiting and captchas for registration, it disabled federation with instances that are at a lower version, to motivate small instances to upgrade and enable the new features.

Probably AWS stuff. An application that hasn’t been designed to scale well can get very expensive very quickly.

They say their biggest expense is marketing. But I think they’re honest in saying that there are no current plans for layoffs. They just made the plans right after making that statement.

That would probably dissolve some of the plastic parts.

They would only have the trademark as long as they’re still using it. I don’t think there’s anything first-party still in active development for any DS platform, but it’s still recent enough.

It might just not have caught their attention yet.

Yes, it’s fine.

If you have vote brigading, ban them, take it up with the instance admin, and defederate, in that order.

If they don’t release it for the current Switch, I’m going to pirate it. It’s 95% of the reason I bought a Switch in the first place.

Oracle?

It also allows you to easily take down someone infringing upon your own rights to your work. Prior to the DMCA, you’d either have to rely on the good graces of the hosting platform, pay a lawyer for a C&D, or file a lawsuit.

Because rightsholders have discretion about who they take action against. In this case, Nintendo doesn’t want violence and Pokémon together, so it gets taken down. Minecraft is nonviolent (at least no more than Pokémon itself) so it gets a pass.

They would also take something down for being for-profit or competes with their own products (e.g AM2R being taken down right before Samus Returns came out).

The Xbox consoles are not and never were advertised or sold as a subsidised device, but the ads are sure making it feel like one.

Yeah, because they are subsidized. Microsoft loses money on every Xbox, expecting to make it up in game and subscription sales.

https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-loses-between-100-and-200-on-every-xbox-sold

They can, but Nintendo generally leaves fan projects alone unless they compete with an actual Nintendo product (see AM2R being taken down right before Samus Returns came out), are for-profit, or conflict with the Nintendo image (I think there was a gory Pokémon fan game that got taken down).

There are a bunch of Half-Life ports and remakes, so to save you all the time, it’s a Black Mesa demake (back to GoldSrc).

It has nothing to do with Stardew Valley as far as I can tell. It’s a League of Legends-skinned farming simulator.

The only time mods have been against the rules are when they were to cheat in multiplayer. Plenty of games have had explicit mod support.

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/leminal.space

Yeah but that’s a waste of light. Why use a floodlight when you can use a laser?