BlueEther

@BlueEther@no.lastname.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess this may ads in podcast type stuff? don’t know.

  Yeah:

  In a significant threat to ad-funded shows, Spotify is testing a new feature in its app that will let users skip the ads in podcasts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While refrigerators and air conditioners still rely on gases that can leak, a Cambridge startup raises $10 million to create refrigeration with plastic crystals that cool when squeezed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I cant be bothered to read ‘yet another pie in the sky’ ‘this will solve every thing’, but my two cents:

  They still have to move the heat somewhere some how with something or else relaxing the crystals will add the heat back to the system + the work that was done. No work is free

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doesn't each community being local to each instance split the audience?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I take it you know how federation works and your phrasing is just odd

  Yes there is some splitting and fragmentation, but that is not always a bad thing. Take “World News” as an example, an instances like beehaw and lemmy.ml will have very takes and comments on an article if it was posted to both of them - and this is good.