I'm a backer of the first title. I don't regret it. I'm just a little sad that it didn't captivate me to the point of continued play where I'd get more out of it.
RPG is a broad term, so I'm not even sure it's fitting, or encompassing enough; I'm thinking of the involved character story, and maybe to a lesser degree the way you interact with the world and fight
I love the concept, and that it exists, and that my Browser extension Augmented Steam shows me playtimes on Steam store pages,
but man I hate that it always logs me out and then regularly presents me with the worst captchas I've ever seen. Adding times could also be a little bit better UX-wise.
I still make use of it though, submitting game completion times, because it's a good thing to collect and share collectively.
/edit: Looks like I'm not logged out right now, so maybe that improved?
The only thing that can stop them from their established position of power and influence is regulation that limits those, with effective checks and prosecution.
Split up their platforms and companies, require transparency and provable decency, require structural or behavioral changes
They have so much money, fines won't do a thing [unless they're excessively high and against their companies]. They have such established prevalence with their platforms, activism of and with evasion won't have much of an impact at scale.
Demonstrating public aversion towards advertisers is also a workable approach that could have an impact [long term].
What's your process? Where in the process does the knowledge get lost?
My learning process back when I was studying has always been to summarize the material. Go through it, and write out a summary, and what was non-obvious to me. And then, if applicable, summarize that summarization, reducing what I could clear up.
Ah, sorry. Turns out the one I got two years ago isn't a Compact either. (I had Compacts previously, and didn't want a big phone then either.)
The 10 V I got is not as big as some of the other big phones, but it is a bit bigger and significantly longer than Compact was previously. 155x68x8.3mm
If communities were standing alone, that idea would work. But communities are hosted and shared on an instance. I find it questionable in that context; it's a slippery slope.
Should an instance's users be able to vote on every community they see in their local feed, or should only community members be able to? Instance admins may decide a community does not violates instance rules, while users may feel like it does not fit the spirit or goals or mentality of an instance.
It could work if only community members can vote in their communities. Then you could make community-specific decisions and consequences, and the border of instance and community would be separated by definition.
Sure, one instance can make their rules regarding it. But if everything they federate with ignore them, do they have to exclude all federated votes? Would they have to filter all votes according to some technical-representable rules?
Most are of what you describe, but not all of them. I have seen valuable background checks before (back on Reddit). I specifically remember an elaborate post about bots/botnet.
I don't like your dismissive qualification of "have so little going on in their lives". Some background checks are good and important. Dismissing people who are willing to invest into that in general, but also dismissing people who "have nothing better to do" for their situation, feels like an awful, uncalled-for, inappropriate insult.
For many things, missing one thing would have meant it coming up elsewhere.
Consider how some discoveries were made by different people independently.
Some were not recognized or became public knowledge. You may very well find that what happened was not how convenient they were but that it was pure chance, and could have been more convenient in more instances.
You forgot the part where the insurance cost goes up for all insured people even if they don't own a Tesla.