ElectroVagrant @ ElectroVagrant @lemmy.world

Another traveler of the wireways.

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For some reason I thought this was another Early Access situation, but it's not. Moments like this I love being wrong.

Looks like ya should have a pretty good amount of leftovers to boot!

Talk about a pleasant surprise!

If using the default web interface: if you click your username, then settings and scroll down there should be a setting option for this.

Patch notes

Highly abbreviated summary:
New story mission chain.
Further additions to biome assets, new star system type with different styles of terrain generation.
Many QOL updates.

It's nice and sort of funny to see that they've restored water to some planets' moons. Wild to think it's been maybe around 8(?!) years since that was abruptly removed. Always get some mixed vibes from No Man's Sky updates due to this awkward back and forth between removing and restoring parts.

And with audio!

[...] there was just a little more non-political content to help dilute it due to the larger user-base.

There was/is a lot more and that's one of the various reasons the different Lemmy/Mbin/Piefed sites haven't swayed people over yet. There's far more people around here replying to posts like this and news posts, as well as creating news/politics/"dry" posts or find-anywhere-fare like memes/shitposts than much else.

It's why recently I've tried posting more than media news links to a few of the different entertainment communities. Around here you really have to post/comment on what you want to see more than on the big corporate sites.

The lurking downvoter, more astounding when they don't appear than when they do. 😂

Sort of, it's because a lot of microblogging software doesn't have the same post format with title/post body. The current workaround for microblog to Lemmy and similar is to format it like this:

first line title

second or more lines post body

communityname@site.name

#hashtags if desired

Appreciate this post OP, as I've wondered similar at times when not wanting to fuss with another machine for self-hosting (as often it's not the case that I could run the server software on my main system).

Hell yeah, thanks for sharing more sources!

Good call! I don't do much with Patreon so it hadn't come to mind.

Regarding the first question, for me PeerTube has a similar problem as with other fediverse stuff, which besides a lack of greater adoption is a scarcity of sites with a positive, distinct identity/community (last I checked at least) to encourage more people to use it.

Off the top of my head in terms of PeerTube, only TILvids.com comes to mind, which is cool, but remains primarily tech and specifically Linux-related educational videos. I don't mind that, but it'd be cool to see a broader range of educational content on there.

You might give the Thunder app a look. It's cross-platform as well and has some settings that allow for more of an in-between look of Eternity and Voyager. It still may not allow for as much empty space as you'd like though.

Tried adjusting Settings>Appearance>Post Size: Compact already?

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Think I may be misunderstanding after reviewing the screenshot and playing with settings. I'm thinking you're after more of an in-between?

In which case yeah, as others said it doesn't appear Voyager settings allow for that.

If there were more people across these sites, I'd definitely appreciate the Ask communities being moderated more toward their intentions, like strictly open-ended questions, and treat all questions as not being stupid for those respective communities.

However with only so many people, too heavy moderation can deter any activity, so it's kinda tricky. 🤔

Yup. From what I've read of Musk's core family (himself & parents & now grandfather), it seems like they're all uniquely awful people.

Quick search surfaces a couple articles, both paywalled.

From The Atlantic: Elon Musk's Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather

From The New Yorker: The World According to Elon Musk's Grandfather

A quick skim of both basically points to how his grandfather was a racist actively involved with fascistic, anti-semitic political organizations and publications. Quote from The New Yorker article below:

In the nineteen-thirties, he joined the quasi-fascistic Technocracy movement, whose proponents believed that scientists and engineers, rather than the people, should rule. He became a leader of the movement in Canada, and, when it was briefly outlawed, he was jailed, after which he became the national chairman of what was then a notoriously antisemitic party called Social Credit. In the nineteen-forties, he ran for office under its banner, and lost. In 1950, two years after South Africa instituted apartheid, he moved his family to Pretoria, where he became an impassioned defender of the regime.

However they also both note that Musk's grandfather died when he was two or three years old, and The Atlantic article notes that Musk's father didn't seem to follow too closely in his father's footsteps. Quote from The Atlantic article with original links included below:

And Haldeman’s politics were not universal in the family; Elon’s father, Errol Musk, for example, was a member of the Progressive Federal Party, the primary political parliamentary opposition to apartheid.

For that matter, would it be the same for mastodon and other fediverse services?

Basically, yeah. Each may differ a little in terms of what they enable exporting to move to different sites using the same service backend (Mastodon/Lemmy/etc.), but many of them are decent about letting you export your settings, subscriptions, and blocks/filters.

One detail many of them aren't good about in terms of data portability is your posts though. Some people are, understandably, very particular about this, as they hate to lose their posts, so it's something to be aware of.

Ideally all of your data on a service backend would be portable to another on the same backend, but that's largely not the case right now. So if there's anything you're thinking about sharing across these services that you'd like to keep, I'd recommend making it as a local file first (.txt/.md/.odt, .png, or whatever) so it's not entangled with a web service. To be honest, that's a good rule of thumb for any digital material regardless as far as I'm concerned.

Well, also maybe Reddit, unless they're also removing/burying other social sites. Besides that, any messaging services one may use to chat with friends or others.