The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.
So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?
I like this author's attitude. I scoffed a bit when I read about "joy that can be found in mediocrity" but he's right that you can (and should) just do something because you enjoy it or it's good for you.
I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?
It's astonishing and terrible to see populist politicians still saying that climate change is a hoax - and getting elected. It's never been more obvious that what scientist have been saying about global warming (e.g. Exxon's scientists have been saying since 1977) is true and having real world consequences today.
I was expecting an assassination, not a stupid gift and a terrible accident.
False dichotomy (or is your logical fallacy the slippery slope? Anyway...) Someone saying that what's happening to Palestinians is wrong does not mean they're saying they want all Israelis killed.
TL;DR: the code/servers could be changed to use SSR, but that's more expensive to run.
Lemmy is written more as a web app than as a traditional webpage. This means that the website sends a partial page plus the code+resources needed to finish building the page and the browser builds ("renders") the final page.
This has advantages in that the server can send less data over time, cache more of that data, and overall has to do less work, plus also makes the site feel more snappy for the user, because their browser only needs to download the data that's changed (instead of a whole new page).
The disadvantage is that the browser needs to be more powerful, and older/simpler browsers (like IE6, some text-only browsers and some web spiders) won't apply the extra work to finish the page off.
The normal solution is called "server-side rendering" (SSR) where the server renders the full page, sends that over, then also sends over the code+data needed to run things more dynamically ("hydrating" the static site into an app-like experience). This means the server has to do a lot of work, but is often the best of both worlds; search engines see the proper page (good for SEO) but users get to have a nice experience (once that longer initial load is complete, anyway).
Good. To quote WarGames:
The only winning move is not to play
Meta is at best looking to profit from the Fediverse, and more likely looking to extinguish it. I think blocking them at the borders is the only solution.
[they] didn’t do anything wrong I just didn’t agree with them
And that's why it's disabled! That's not what it's meant to be for, it's meant to be for things that don't add to the conversation. If it's factually wrong then fine - downvote, but don't do it to suppress others' opinions.
I was thinking this the other day. Without having read the spec, it seems like mirroring should be fairly straightforward - but then once an instance has gone down, how do the users find which mirror is promoted to the new main? Or should the mirrors be treated like backups, and just used to populate a new community on whatever instance is chosen (and then mirror from the new source)?
Arguably, the fix should be to "it" since anon is a utility account, not a user.