They only specifically block the piracy community on db0’s instance, to my knowledge. It’s definitely not a full instance ban anymore

Agreed, I was mostly joking, but there are still algorithms that drive the hot and controversial sorting. The fact that you can look up how those algorithms work is also a major difference.

They put their games back on steam, that was nice

Spinning rust is a funny way of describing HDDs, but I immediately get it

Yes! Full agree

Continues scrolling lemmy

That’s a decent reason to play. So long as you know what data they’re sucking up and selling and are ok with it, more power to you. What’s crazy to me is I live pretty close to a couple of gyms and I constantly see people drive up and play from their cars. Now that I think completely defeats the purpose.

Been clean from this game for a few years now. It’s really not worth it; Niantic just uses it as a geospatial data harvesting tool rather than focusing on making an entertaining game, imo. There’s a reason all their other games have been failures, the Pokemon IP is the only thing keeping this game afloat.

Brings me back to the days of the “Trump criticizes Trump” subreddit. I remember when the subreddit closed up shop when he got banned from Twitter in 2021. I naively thought it was a new dawn for the country. Wishful thinking.

My Reuters alert said he’s doing the same for Canada, but who even knows at this point. The president certainly doesn’t seem to know.

1939 wants its ideas back

Can you dipshits please stop downvoting news you don’t like?

LinkedIn is pretty dumb. I dunno if it qualifies as a brain rotting source though

That was the joke, yes

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