I think that might be a bug, the !community@instance.com template is pretty standard and even works on the web version. i reccomend updating the app, checking the github repository and checking the settings. But for me it works on the jerboa app. also you should probably try turning off your wifi connection on your phone and retrying, if that wasnt obvious enough. if those dont work try any chatrooms/communities memmy might have, they get resolved pretty quickly in my experience.

I don't think so. You can add your instance's webpage to your homescreen and it's essentially an app. The web version works flawlessly, I've never even used an app for Lemmy.

Yeah. Here on Liftoff(Lemmy app) these community links redirect me to a protonmail message, lol

Naw, figures like that are bullshit. They assume that everyone pirating something would buy it, which they wouldn't. And besides, that's not what I'm talking about anyway.

When Apple came out with iTunes, a good chunk of the media companies refused to play along because they had a better profit margin with physical media. Napster was a thing by then, but the media companies thought they could beat it into the ground with lawsuits and threats. It didn't work. It was an extremely expensive game of whack-a-mole that generated constant bad press.

Piracy forced them to cooperate with companies like Apple, Pandora, and eventually Netflix to make media accessible and cheap enough that people wouldn't pirate it. The only effective way to fight piracy is make it easier for people to get what they want without having to pirate.

So next time you watch a prime-time-level TV show at 10AM on a Saturday without having to pay $25 or drive down to the local rental store, remember that pirates are the ones that made that possible.

Someone drank the koolaid.

The source for your ridiculous figure is the lobbying arm of an industry notorious for mistreating workers and sacrificing everything including quality of product and basic human decency for the maximising of profits. It also has tons of corrupt influence on politics and media even by the alreeady rotten standards of American legal bribery.

The reality is that every dollar lost to piracy is a hypothetical one as there's far from any guarantee that anyone pirating something would have bought the media rather than pass it over completely if not able to pirate it. In fact, there's a compelling argument to be had that word of mouth as a result of piracy often benefit a show, movie or even game much more than the, again, completely hypothetical, loss of sales hurts.

Besides, the one you're replying to is right: streaming as we know it today started as an effort by studios to maximise profits by making legitimate viewings easier than piracy. They've of course fucked THAT up by now, by acting like a streaming service is the same thing as the TV channels the vast majority of people happily abandoned.

Like in politics, clueless boomer (and forgotten generation) dinosaurs are in charge of a world they no longer understand, to the immense detriment of all the people they're supposed to serve except (some of) the money men.

People who make games =/= People who sell games.

Look at Disco Elysium