Facebook is useless if you want to get some free traffic to your website or videogame: no money - no honey! #Facebook #SocialMedia #Marketing

Why are there no 3D animators on YouTube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-px6J9nqKg

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Whoa, one of the best LTT hosts is no longer with them. And he spoke out about a lot of cool inner stories:

The biggest of them — GamersNexus took Linus down so much that most of big and expensive projects were discontinued inside media group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0GPnA9pW8k
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YouTube finally allowed a human being to reply and it was an "all your fault" response. Laughable...

Before that, the company enabled AI moderation which banned over 12m accounts in a couple of months.

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Apparently, under current EU regulations the authorities grant you the victory by default and then can not implement it or enforce in any way. It's just there and "in good faith by Meta they can agree, maybe".

(The user lost his Meta/FB)

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Well, that's crazy

- Only social media are banned
- Games were excluded
- Messengers were excluded

Initially the government unironically wanted to ban messengers, most of the games and their stores as well.

#UK@GameDEV
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Oddly enough, you can find Likes and Dislikes (after they were removed from YT Studio), but obtaining such a sacred data now requires a dozen of clicks. You have to:

- Switch to Analytics - Advanced
- Set the Date Range
- Set the Metrics (Likes, Dislikes, Ratio)

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You have been warned
(Not sure how real it is)

#Discord@GameDEV
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As we notified earlier, Discord banned people for harmless images. Anything with checkerboard patterns, like UV textures or game inventory screenshots was flagged as child exploitation, and the accounts were removed almost instantly.

Discord says that since May over 8000 accounts were affected by their magical AI moderation and removed, now the company tries to restore them.

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Telegram short domain name (all external links rely on) was just removed from global DNS system without any context, warning, or even notification for the owner.

Basically, the entity who owns ME domains urgently placed it on serverHold = forced DNS to stop serving it. As of now, no one knows why. Funny enough, DomainMe phone is no longer in service and their address is not a real office.

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