...most followed user,

Abusing site admin powers to force accounts to follow you really shouldn't count.

If you also factor in further accelerating userbase and revenue loss, us spending that money actually turns into a net loss for xitter.

I'll gladly spend that money out of spite, just to see his website lose users to Mastodon even faster.

Would be interesting, but Lemmy and Mastodon would both need some work to tick some security and compliance checkboxes.

On the plus side, we could get proper 2FA support (i.e. Yubikeys or TOTP tokens) as a result. I'd love to get some more use out of that old yubikey.

I kinda hope that Trump's campaign keeps using it, not because they'll invariably get sued, but because Celine could then pull the most supremely delicious piece of irony ever...
And play the fail recorder version as he's being escorted out for transport to prison.

Honestly, after all the shit YouTube is pulling with their ad systems, I wouldn't mind those old tiny banner strip ads that used to occasionally pop up at the bottom of a video. Compared to the current standard of 3 minutes of unskippable ads interrupting every other video, those little banners are downright unobtrusive.

Sony: "And lastly..."
Gestures to a life-size Lovander doll
Sony: "Palworld the mega-doll! Pose it however you want! Stand it dramatically in a window! Lay it in bed and use it as a pillow!"

Sony (smugly): "But we know what you're really going to use it for. You naughty little hand-holder, you."

Players (suspicious): "So what is it you're doing here, Sony?"

Sony: "Merchandizing."

Players: "Merchandizing? What's that?"

Sony: "Merchandizing! Come, I'll show you. Open up this door."

Sony: "Come, take a look! We've got the game's logo on everything. Merchandizing, merchandizing... Where the real money from the game is made."

Sony: "Palworld the t-shirt! Palworld the cell phone case! Palworld the laptop stickers! *Palworld, the flamethrower!"

Fwooosh!

Sony: "The kids love it."

...This is not a publishing deal for Palworld the video game, or an acquisition by Sony, rather an attempt to make the most of the game’s huge popularity with non-video game products, such as merchandise and music...

Looks like we're safe from any forced PSN account requirements. For now...

I am so using this on my boyfriend tomorrow. I just need to put glasses on my avatar first.

To quote my parents whenever I was being disciplined for something immature, "Act your age, not your shoe size."

According to the article, Twitter is also charging $42,000 minimum for enterprise access. That's over $500k per year. If I was a Nintendo employee, I would not only cut that expense, but also use it as leverage for a massive end of year bonus.

Thankfully I don't do anything that requires me to have Photoshop, but if I did, I'd be explicitly blocking all outbound connections in the firewall.