And then I get even more random irrelevant crap because everyone talking about their latest rp adventures in stardew valley tags steam, gaming, indiegaming and other general hashtags.
Unfortunately this is not the fault of mastodon, its community or tech behind it as much as ... nobody from twitter actually moving to mastodon. There aren't many big influencers, companies or content creators on mastodon so your feed is just random people talking about random stuff. The lack of algorithm doesn't help either since someone's random showerthoughts have the same chance of showing up for you as does something trending that you'd actually be interested in.
Nah, the servers are just failing sometimes. I've made comparisons between same threads on both kbin and lemmy instances and almost every time they'd miss some comment (chains) completely and it had nothing to do with defederation or blocking. Syncs just fail or are incomplete, missing up to 40% of comments in some threads. Maybe it's improved now if the traffic stabilized but it seems to me like the foundation is still very unreliable and prone to failures, and the devs didn't implement any backup plans for it (like later reattempts at resyncing or sth).
Season 1 left a really weird taste in my mouth. I don't mind deviations from the books but I don't understand why they made them when it just makes for a worse story with less likeable characters and tons of inconsistencies or plot holes. It really felt like it was the show writers trying to tell their own, much worse and badly written, fanfic story instead of R. Jordan's, and that's not why I watched the show at all. It doesn't help that it felt like they don't even understand the source material, like for example completely missing how saidin and saidar "work" and "feel", or how novices have impressive AoE heals without any practice at all.
It's the same criticism I had about Witcher and that one went off the rails even worse in later seasons so I really have low hopes for WoT.
I am really glad there are no huge glaring issues with it, I enjoyed remnant 1 very much and am looking forward to a sequel. Everything I've heard so far make me thing they improved it in all the right places without ruining the experience, so here's hoping
Same here, I have high hopes for it but I don't wanna get burned. The first game also had launch issues so it's not a bad idea to wait a few months for the dust to settle.
I played the first one solo and had tons of fun. Some bosses felt like bs but they were manageable with an adjustment in strategy. It definitely doesn't have dark souls frustration levels, it's a more straightforward game.
So glad more people know of this game every day, it is such a great experience. The devs are also great at providing constant meaningful updates and communicating with the players, they are really one of the best indie early access games I've followed, ever. Deserve every cent
SkillUp did and got a lot of shit for it, as he expected 😁 He generally disliked the direction the franchise is taking and wasn't a fan of much besides presentation, which makes sense since he's more of a gameplay oriented gamer from what I can tell.
Tbh it's not black and white. I'm sure a big corporation can extract a ton of information on us but there's still a pretty big gap between having our real names and photos plastered everywhere on social media, or them just knowing where I live and that I spend a lot on steam games. Don't take the small victories for granted.
Dunno if this is entering conspiracy theory area but I do think big corps are afraid of FOSS becoming mainstream. A recent article I read about AI said that open sourced models are considered a real future threat to proprietary ones and I keep thinking if the same could be said for social networks and hosting services. After all look at how long piracy had endured and prospered due to efforts of a few, and that's with all the legal issues too.
So your answer to a locked discussion is to open a new one? How many pointless threads do we need to have about this shit take? Are we going to dig out articles from 8 years ago now when you ran out of other arguments? Go to another community if it bothers you, and mods pls lock this one as well
But making the fediverse invisible to Meta users is exactly how google killed XMPP.
It is literally not though? Google killed other XMPP services despite them working hard towards compatibility with google, not because they closed google off.
It's really not what I'm saying. They won't "destroy every single instance in the fediverse", I'm saying they won't care about the 1% of old fashioned techies that remain here after they establish a monopoly on users and content elsewhere.
Besides, XMPP didn't consist of a single service either, it was just a protocol. It still exists and can be used today. Good luck establishing a community with it though.
And then I get even more random irrelevant crap because everyone talking about their latest rp adventures in stardew valley tags steam, gaming, indiegaming and other general hashtags.