decentralization doesn’t have a particularly specific meaning. Federation absolutely qualifies for having a certain degree of it. You can be more or less decentralized ranging from completely monolithic to fully p2p. Then there are related properties like the ability to migrate or anonymity.

well that may be true for general news but if you’re looking for a more specific topic it won’t necessarily hold.

thanks, that’s interesting to see… I wouldn’t say that what we mean by Loops now has been around for that long but it does show he has been thinking about shortform video for a while and used the same name as the experimental feature had.

where are you getting the idea that Loops is five years old? Seems more like less than two years. From what I can tell it was publicly announced March 2024 (not yet available at that point): https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

In October 2024 it was starting to accept limited signups. The git repo has commits dating back to December 2024.

Federation for it is definitely still a WIP but I don’t see much reason to doubt that it will be a fediverse platform.

It’s not just a label but it guarantees practically nothing because it only means they are allowed to consider things other than shareholder profit. It doesn’t in any way ensure that they do and a PBC is mostly treated just the same as a for-profit company.

Obviously it isn’t just the team that owns Bluesky at this point since they have had multiple rounds where they’ve raised venture capital. That is an old bit of information that I think they still have up on the site despite it being both vague and obviously false.

They’re not. In practice PBC status doesn’t really limit them very much at all and is nothing like nonprofit.

yeah I’m aware… doesn’t really refute anything I said. If he holds a share then he can do what any investor can do and how much he can do depends on how big his share of the company is.

can always come up with rationalizations but the fact remains there are other platforms that will not “cost optimize” it away.

Nothing might be going too far. He left the board since it wasn’t good PR for them but Bluesky is not transparent about its ownership and Dorsey could well still have a stake in it.

no that was in fact the Bluesky CEO. See: https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/05/waffles-eat-bluesky/

You don’t because everything here’s based on communities while Mastodon is on individual users. If you’d like something that does both in a single platform I think Mbin would be the best bet (although you can interact with Lemmy communities using Mastodon and other microblogging platforms to some extent)

Another vote for NeoDB. It’s been very useful for me and more people on fedi need to know about it.

It is a shame 3D Vision was phased away by Nvidia. I feel like it would have a better chance of success now that many people have VR headsets and no-glasses 3D monitors are starting to appear.

Making something like 3dsen is a much more difficult task than being able to display a game that is using a 3d engine and so would generally be fundamentally capable of providing a stereoscopic view. That said, most of them currently don’t offer it anyway and it’s still not quite zero effort to add such a capability.

It does seem like Valve are saying they want to let you view a game in a stereoscopic 3D if the game has support for it built-in already so it would be 3d support for flat games (meaning games primarily made to be run on a screen) but only if the game has support for it. That’s good but does mean there’s still a need for either developers or 3rd parties to make the changes needed for it to function.

FWIW, I didn’t get it at first but found it funny after reading the comment where you explained it.

This would be a dream feature for me as even many flat games become so much more visually impressive and immersive experiences when you are able to look at them in real 3D. Currently you can get a decent number of games displayed this way if you have a stereoscopy-capable device but it’s just a royal PITA that involves lots of fiddling with config so having that be easy on very comfortable hardware like the Frame would be game-changing as far as I am concerned.

The Firaxis Xcom reboot. Been doing retro a lot, a somewhat modern game is fun for a change and as a fan of the original this has been quite enjoyable.