"The reality is people don’t want to pick their favorite community, running an instance is expensive and complicated, and owning your data isn’t a product feature."

This is the problem that affects all federated/decentralized projects. Same thing with Urbit. No one wants to keep their computer running 24/7 to support a network. and no one wants to bare the financial burden of paying for a server to host a community.

Nice to see the internet continuing it's decline.

Bag holders are going to try to spin this into a conspiracy theory to pump the value of BTC. Next they will be saying that Satoshi was Steve Jobs or some nonsense.

18 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35461226

jesus christ...

2023 years ago...:

Wait, that's not what you meant. Right.

We're already screwed because the internet is dying. Everyone is just using phones now, all the forums are shutting down. IRC is dead. Matrix is dead. Discord lives because it's a gamer/trans rights echo chamber. but that's it. The late 90s and early 2000s was the golden era of the internet. we're living in the detritus now.

matrix is far from dead! just hit 94M addressable users and all time high of 2M MAU on the matrix.org server (doubled in last year)

it has tons of bots and dead accounts. i run a few channels with hundreds of "users". they get maybe 3 posts per month.

Stop raging, your argument is invalid simply because I can exchange crypto for goods and services and you don't even see this simple problem

Glad we agree the IRS shouldn’t be taxing something that has no value.

Might as well cancel it. The games are non-existent. and the quality of the games they have been releasing look like xbox 360 graphics. Not to mention Microsoft buying up every studio they can get their hands on.

That's not why it's being cancelled. Most of the big players will still have press conferences and/or in-person events this summer, they are just doing them themselves rather than under the E3 umbrella.

i wish the government would have stayed out of it, it probably would have already collapsed by now if they had.

I figured this out long ago that's why i search for useless domains in hopes they will waste money on them for nothing. screw em.

The problem isn't that GTK3x is hard to use, It's that its simply not capable of creating beautiful UI's like GTK2x could. It can't create any tool bars without making them thick and huge, even DE's like xfce that try to maintain that old gtk2x look and feel can't do it anymore because of this.

Absolutely, and it's the GNOME camp where this awful excessively padded user interface style is coming from, and spreading across the platform to other desktop environments. Personally, I gave up on modifying the CSS theme files for GTK3 to reduce the ugliness - I made it just barely tolerable, but not any better than that.