app.net was great for developers.
We made money each month based on user feedback. It was worth the higher membership fee to access all that too.
Sadly, and despite the way it was originally funded (by the users), I believe they took some VC funding, which ultimately killed the platform since it wasn't getting the growth that the investors wanted.
Actually, if Elon wants 'X' to become an 'everything app', one way which that could be done is through opening up to more app devs to build their own apps on the platform, as it used to be. Sadly, I don't think they've got the will or the manpower to do that these days.
I assume this is to cover any losses from them soon making it possible to use the Quest without a Facebook account? ie: The data they will not be able to sell.
The cross-browser support and standardisation for `input=date` (and `input=datetime`) has been notoriously poor for years. It's still only listed as 'partially' supported on some browsers on caniuse.
That's not a million miles away from how Second Life operated (and still does). Where the 'Land' & 'Estates' (and parcels within them) were servers. Each has their own limitations to how many user avatars they can support at one time.
People flock to places they identity with. Buy parcels. Build their own space and communities within communities.
As far as 'voting' and governance goes, I think there's room for development with blockchain login/identity/ownership and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) which support that.
> As far as 'voting' and governance goes, I think there's room for development with blockchain login/identity/ownership and Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) which support that.
Immediately turning it into a community of crypto bros where the only subject is cryptocurrencies and derivations. A figurative and literal waste.
You can vote without Blockchain, somehow everyone forgot about that. In fact Blockchain and other "trustless" mechanisms are completely useless in a community where people know each other, since Sybil attacks require anonymity.
I must report about 10-15 of these every week to YouTube. Recently, it's been Shiba Inu due to the pump it's been getting.
Most of the scam live streams I've seen and reported are channels which appear to have been 'taken over'/'hacked' and their content changed or deleted to then kick off a 'giveaway' stream which are all scams.
They all have the same basic layout on screen, so really YouTube's bots should do a better job of detecting them. YouTube are literally recommending content which perpetrates fraud, at this point.
Out of interest, what's to stop them publishing some 'version' of the modified code, but actually running a different version on their servers? Would that be easy to detect?
> Out of interest, what's to stop them publishing some 'version' of the modified code, but actually running a different version on their servers? Would that be easy to detect?
That depends on what you mean by "detect" -- there's an large body of Computer Science research dedicated to program attestation, i.e. enabling a user to verify that the program (or results of a program) derives directly from some source. But it's far from a solved problem in the general case.
Less formally, that's what the legal system is for: if the copyright holder suspects that the published source code is different from the source code that's being run by the service, then they're perfectly within their rights to take the service provider to court and attest, under the penalty of law, to their compliance.
Sadly, and despite the way it was originally funded (by the users), I believe they took some VC funding, which ultimately killed the platform since it wasn't getting the growth that the investors wanted.
Actually, if Elon wants 'X' to become an 'everything app', one way which that could be done is through opening up to more app devs to build their own apps on the platform, as it used to be. Sadly, I don't think they've got the will or the manpower to do that these days.