AnimalsDream @ AnimalsDream @slrpnk.net

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Dunno, but if that's true, then ideally the rights would be bought and used by people who don't suck, or maybe there could be a spiritual successor.

Why would you do that? You can just watch Star Wars recycle the same story over and over.

Commander Keen metroidvania?

Here's what all these complaints about federation choices reminds me of: every job I've ever had, new people get hired from time to time. What do they do? Long before they've had any time to get any training or learn how things work to maybe get a better understanding of why some things are done the way they are - day one, they start complaining about all kinds of little things, waxing fantastical about how they'd do things differently. Same energy.

Nothing is perfect, and maybe things can be improved in a number of ways as time goes on. But also everything has a learning curve, so maybe try learning that curve before making demands about getting rid of the core elements that make federation what they are.

And? The tech bros currently ransacking the federal government also work in IT.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy

Yeah, I didn't consider that. The game would probably have to design the map in a way that keeps all the characters relatively nearby, or introduce a mechanic for them to converge more seamlessly, like maybe having save rooms that teleport all of them together or something.

Oooh, another one: Demon's Crest.

Sonic Adventure 1 is my favorite Sonic game. I was thinking more along the lines of a 2d sidescrolling Sonic metroidvania though.

And yet here you are.

It's not empathetic. It just tries to understand human psychology well enough to manipulate consumer choices for more profits. If you want something on that philosophy, that's what reddit is already for.

When I recommend federated sites to people, I literally just pick the ones I'm already on and send the link. Problem solved. They can learn more and try new things in their own time. It's also not hard to just tell them, "It's like email, but for the whole internet."

"Of Earth’s estimated 400,000 plant species, we could eat some 300,000, armed with the right imagination, boldness and preparation. Yet humans, possibly the supreme generalist, eat a mere 200 species globally, and half our plant-sourced protein and calories come from just three: maize, rice and wheat."

Would you consider biodiversity to also be bad ux? Maybe consider that the benefits of decentralization far outweigh the cons of your marketing programming, and that the issue is more one of education. Dumbing down and patronizing people like we need somebody to make our choices for us sounds like a solution that's worse than the problem.

When it comes to software things, I do tend to err on the side of supporting new users - I'll be the first to argue that a person should not have to learn how to use the terminal in order to use Linux.

That said, this situation is honestly bewildering to me. I cannot fathom how the idea of having choices could be considered, let alone by so many people to even make this into a controversy, to be bad design. That's the very thing that makes federation great.

You're all seriously overthinking this. Just look at a few of the most populated sites, and pick one that looks good. The choice makes 95% no difference in practice because on most instances you're going to see all the same content as soon as you press the All button anyway.

One thing I can imagine that would make the experience better, is maybe if there was a one-click way to join or migrate to another lemmy instance, using an existing login. Personally I don't think it's a big deal to just quickly sign up for a new instance if I want to. But I did see that Pixelfed has the option of signing on by using a Mastodon account. So maybe something like that can help?

See? This is what happens when you go on the carnivore diet.

Came in to say the exact same thing.

Regime change, or regime... enshittification?

Now days I have an easier time with games working out of the box on Linux than I do with Windows.

Is that a consistent experience across lemmy though? I looked at some of those downvote-disabled instances, and then looked at posts in those instances from within an instance that still had downvotes enabled - and it appeared that people were still downvoting those posts just fine.

If it is possible to simply disable votes all together - including comment votes - I might try spending some time learning how to get that all setup and running and see how the experience is. But I would likely defederate from all vote-instances (or I don't know if there's a way to make the federation opt-in), so that community could be entirely free from voting effects.

I was looking at NodeBB as an option for that sort of thing. The problem there is it's not really structured for the kind of user-driven dynamic sub-community building that reddit and lemmy are built for.

But yes, that is essentially what I want, a traditional forum site with subreddits.

But then again, there's also the design of the posts themselves, and how they're shown on the user feed. Reddit clones put links and link access front and center, whereas there's more clicks involved in even accessing post content on a forum.

Overall I still think it'd be easier to forumize lemmy, than to lemmyize NodeBB. The latter would require too many additions and modifications, whereas the former can be done hypothetically with deletions only, well, and a few switched defaults.

What are you supposed to do about the opinion of newcomers whose opinion is, "I don't like choice," and the central feature of federated platforms is choice?

I think that's more of a feature, not a bug. It means if one group is doing a shitty job of running their community, it's easier to find another group of the same nature. I've noticed a lot of communities on .world are run a lot like the most popular subreddits where moderation of posts is highly aggressive, and seems aimed more at curating "high quality content" than actually being a community. Okay, easy enough, I just start posting to similar places on other instances, or start my own.