Blender may consider spinning up their own open-source Pixelfed instance. Move from Instagram. In case their account is reinstated.. Pixelfed has an Insta import/migration feature.
The Digital Services Act, which will apply in the EU in just a few days, mandates a human-reviewed appeal and a clear statement of the reasons for the actions taken. Blender is a Netherlands organization so they'd be covered "natively". This legislation could not have come at a better time.
Very strange. I only had like 20 posts of work I created, and liked maybe 40 other people's things across a 6 month window. I'm not an avid social media user. I only really kept posting to keep in touch with friends and coworkers.
My instagram account was also suspended recently, with no explanation. I did nothing wrong. I had a few followers, and I followed, maybe 20 or 30 accounts. No idea why it was suspended.
The only move that private equity, which owns autodesk, is acquisition or snuffing it out.
They have not really done any improvements to their software in years. They just want to keep collecting those sweet subscription charges from absolutely anyone doing VFX/animation and make sure nobody has any other options.
Problem for them, they can neither acquire nor kill blender. Best they can do is have their billionaire friends try to make it disappear.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 40.3 ms ] threadBlender staff wonders whether they should start a new account from scratch, or just give up that platform.
By the way, my own brand new Instagram account was also suspended today: https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/8/4.html
reattempt to post the URL to the relevant portion of the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjAznjNp4Z8&t=3548s
Blender is a bit of a gateway FOSS product and has a good opportunity to use this to encourage further FOSS adoption.
Pic: https://i.imgur.com/50LjdXx.png
Very strange. I only had like 20 posts of work I created, and liked maybe 40 other people's things across a 6 month window. I'm not an avid social media user. I only really kept posting to keep in touch with friends and coworkers.
They have not really done any improvements to their software in years. They just want to keep collecting those sweet subscription charges from absolutely anyone doing VFX/animation and make sure nobody has any other options.
Problem for them, they can neither acquire nor kill blender. Best they can do is have their billionaire friends try to make it disappear.