I’m still rooting for Bluesky, gross as it is to root for something created by Jack Fucking Dorsey, since at this point it seems like the lesser of three evils, but they really need to pick up the development pace and get it to the point where it’s ready to be open to the public. It’s at the point now where people are…

The problem is that their algorithm is actively dissuading people from having a good experience. It’s terrible at suggesting posts, it just shows a bunch of random brands and influencers and you have to go in and mute or block. If it actually suggested based on my interests instead of just dumping a ton of brands on…

I’m sort of interested, but the tie-in to Instagram and the whole “kill your Instagram account if you decide not to pursue this any further” thing, reduced my interest greatly.

>that Microsoft has committed to not restricting access to games like Call of Duty

So Twitter/Elon is not paying severance, not paying rent, not paying a whole host of creditors...but he’s paying these guys.

I just want to see people I follow. My feed is full of random people and accounts I don’t care about, so I won’t use the app.

He’s literally just incentivizing rage bait and shitposting. Incredible. 

When I open the app, it’s a wall of influencers and brands posting the most boring things possible. What gets engagement on Instagram (people being hot) doesn’t make for good content on a text-based app (being smart or funny). They really need to change the algorithm to serve up good content, not content from people…

Any app that won’t launch in the EU over ‘regulatory concerns’ is actively bad for you.

Masterful gambit, sir.

Good Microsoft already has one monopoly, without straight up buying their way into another.

We’re very on much on different wavelengths here.

We do realise all of that. But the people who are afraid of this are thinking of the future.

“What does consolidation have to do with the availability of physical products?”

The consolidated company decides they don’t want to support physical products because they think anti-consumer subscription models are more profitable.

It’s the same thing that happened with streaming. Now there are shows you literally…

Go and look back at how successful any sizable game studio was before being acquired by Microsoft vs. afterward. Go on, I’ll wait.

Putting aside the fact that “I bought an IP to limit access to it” is a perniciously disgusting corporate tactic that needs to stop being normalized, everyone seems to forget a huge part of the bad side of monopolies: labor getting fucked. This is gonna mean less people in the industry now doing more work for less…

Nobody was making a left vs right argument in this article. That was a factual reporting of what happened in the hearing.

Also, Anti-Trust law is inherently a left/right issue. The Right likes consolidated anti-competitive markets. The left does not.

The trial was a disaster, but I think it’s absolutely hilarious that any gamer still thinks Microsoft buying a studio is actually a good thing.

The FTC didn't really do a great job on this, but anyone who thinks this deal is going to be good for the marketplace is dumb

All of the uproar from Xbox fans I’ve heard is, “Microsoft dropped the ball playing Sony and Nintendo’s game of developing independent first party talent over several decades of curating, so if they don’t just buy up the biggest studios right now Sony will win this generation’s console wars!”