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This guy really seems to be intent on buying the parts of Paramount everyone else considers dead weight.

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I don’t know, it sounds like it might be better off in someone else’s hands…depending on the someone.

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We also have a Mastodon PSA up - unfortunately, with the post being difficult to access, there’s not too much else we can do - I ran into the same issue, myself.

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It looks like they may have done some frenzied patching after this went viral.

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Yeah…I generally use verbatim headlines as post titles, but maybe I’ll add some quotation marks in this case.

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So the respondents were lying?

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Thank goodness we have you to tell us what’s real.

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Seems to me that assuming it’s a flawed survey for no real reason is a confirmation of biases in and of itself…

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Yes - our current approach is to wait ~2 weeks following a release, in case their are any significant bugs.

In the case of v. 0.19, it appears there have been some significant federation-related bugs, so the wait might be a little longer while we see how it all shakes out.

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While the business has reckoned with more seismic deals in recent years, among them Disney-Fox and AT&T-Time Warner, this time the reality seems to be dawning that bigger is not always better. Streaming platforms swim in red ink and legacy media assets (mainly linear TV) are eroding. Yes, Zaslav has hinted at opportunities to be had, but WBD was not really considered a buyer given its oft-stated focus on reducing its enormous debt. It’s not clear how trying to swallow a company with hefty debt of its own solves any problems.

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One could argue that Netflix fired the first shot when they opened their own studio. I think everyone shares the blame for the current hellscape.

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I mean, Disney was able to acquire 20th Century Fox without too much trouble…

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The Hollywood Reporter seems to think that hope is misplaced:

Such a deal would likely attract less regulatory scrutiny than other potential mergers, with WBD lacking any domestic broadcast network, and with mostly synergistic businesses. The biggest source of friction would likely be combining the two legacy film and TV studios.

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Money is possibly the biggest concern when it comes to running an instance - it can be difficult to sustain donations over time.

I know the Lemmy devs have, or at least did have, some grants that were helping keep them afloat, but they still rely on donations from users.

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I’m honestly not too sure, but I would think joining the fediverse can only help.

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The Verge has a story on this, too:

“Basically, we’re in the process of replacing our whole social back-end with ActivityPub,” says Flipboard CEO Mike McCue. “I think Flipboard is going to be the first mainstream consumer service that existed in a walled garden that switches over to ActivityPub.”

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Right now, we don’t see any real reason to do so. If someone can identify a clear, genuine threat from Meta besides “we don’t like them” (and, to be clear, we don’t), we’re open to hearing it. But as it stands, I haven’t seen anything concrete that would be cause for concern.

If the worst-case scenario is…more people can interact with us, then I don’t see what the problem is.

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As an admin here, I’m not too worried about being “forced into ruin” - at worst, we would get bigger, and then get smaller again if Meta pulls the plug on ActivityPub.

But I can also assure you that we’ll be watching closely.

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Lemmy admins are worried that threads will become so integral to the fediverse that it’s removal will mean that users (who let’s be honest, don’t want to check more things than they need to) will go with threads.

My instinct is to shrug if off and say, “so what?” Most people looking for this sort of experience already go to Reddit. This space exists for people who’d rather not. If a bunch of users decide to go to Threads, and then Meta takes away interoperability…we’ll still be here, doing what we do.

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Both their New York and Vancouver studios have joined IATSE in the last few years - the Canadian studio was the first animation house in the country to join a union, ever.

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Yep, he’s doing three specials as the 14th Doctor before Ncuti Gatwa takes over as 15 in January.

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I’m not sure it’s accurate to say that they “think.”

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BOOM

You got Zaslav’d.

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Related: SAG-AFTRA Lauds New Deal, Valuing It At Over $1B With “Unprecedented” Provisions & “Extraordinary Scope”

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I think it’s only in the last decade or so that it’s become a practical reality, with likenesses of deceased actors popping up in films. Until this point, it’s probably been enough of a hypothetical that it wasn’t worth fighting over.