ProdigalFrog @ ProdigalFrog @slrpnk.net

A frog who wants the objective truth about anything and everything.

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on reddit, you have to hope an admin replaces a bad mod. On lemmy, you can create a competing community that's well modded, and the user base will generally want to be where the mods are chill, and follow.

I'm not sure I fully agree with the idea of continuing to limp Reddit along until enough people switch, and only then torching it. That didn't work for twitter, as Mastodon was available for years, but people only properly migrated away from twitter when it became unbearable to use. AFAIK, Digg died a similar death.

I suspect we would get a more steady stream of migrants here if Reddit became so blatantly pro corporate that they censored posts in the way you describe. Then people would actually be motivated to switch.

If the mods are already behaving in the way reddit desires for fear of removal, would installing proper puppets make much difference?

Were I in their shoes, I'd prep my community to switch to lemmy, then wait to be removed. But I'm quite biased against reddit :p

The article doesn't say if it's using meshtastic, but if it ends up that it is, would be a good article for !meshtastic@mander.xyz.

Glad to see the concept spreading, whatever the tech is! :)

I don't see why they wouldn't just let the reddit Admins deal with it, honestly. they're unpaid workers, let the paid managers step in if they must.

Oddly enough I actually pre-ordered a physical copy of Primordia, and got a ways into it before stopping for some reason. I should really go back and finish it!

Mastodon is part of the same interconnected network as Lemmy and Mbin, called ActivityPub, but the experience they give is pretty wildly different, and how they interact with each other varies.

So Mastodon is it's own app or website, but anyone can start their own mastodon on their own personal server/computer, and it can then interact with anyone else's mastodon as well.

Imagine if you could host a brand new Twitter on your computer, and all your friends can make accounts on your personal twitter, but you and your friends can comment and interact with someone else's twitter too, without having to create a new account! That's mastodon.

Lemmy is like that, but for Reddit instead of Twitter.

Lemmy isn't really designed to interact with Mastodon users, but Mastodon Users can follow Lemmy users or Lemmy communities, and leave comments and likes on Lemmy posts.

Lemmy can interact with Mbin just like it was another Lemmy.

Mbin can interact with Lemmy just as well as Lemmy can interact with Mbin, as they both support a Reddit style of forum interaction. But Mbin also supports making and interacting with Twitter style microblogging content too, so it can interact with Mastodon too, and mastodon can interact back!

Hope that helps.

Personally, I would say:

• Thief 1, 2 & 3
• Indiana Jones and The Fate of Atlantis
• Mafia 1 (not the remake)
• Gemini Rue
• Deus Ex (Game Dungeon has a great video on why the story punches so high, link to relevant segment here)
• Disco Elysium (even though I personally didn't really care for the game due to the setting, the writing is undeniably high quality)
• A Mind Forever Voyaging

All of those games have, IMO, a tremendously good sync between gameplay and story, where everything lines up to the point where you can become fully absorbed into whatever experience the writer/designer crafted. I would say Thief accomplishes it the best, while Mafia's and Deus Ex's clunky gameplay hold them back, but I can see what they were trying to achieve, and overall are close enough to my ideal.

I have a very similar experience to @Zarxrax@lemmy.world. When I was younger, I'd play just about anything I could get my hands on. But now, it's like you, where 99% of what's out there doesn't interest me.

I think this happened for a few reasons for me:

1. Games are a pretty big time commitment compared to other media, and my time has only become more valuable as I get older. I'm just not willing to invest it in a game that isn't really scratching an itch effectively
2. There are more games out now than ever before in history. Combined with the previous point, there's never been a better time to be picky.
3. AAA games are stagnating pretty badly due to profit incentive. While there a still some that break the mold and show artistic value, most of them are so commodified and painfully derivative, it's difficult for an older gamer who has already played things like it to get excited
4. I've become more attuned to my preferences in genre, and know what I will and will not enjoy, which is something I didn't have as much when I was younger, since everything was still relatively new and therefore, interesting enough to play.

But this last one is the biggest reason for me: games are not reaching the potential they have locked within them.

I say that as someone who is a massive fan of storytelling, good writing, and immersion in games. Compared to books and movies, writers are still given extremely low priority in the gaming industry, which results in a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance, simplistic writing, and a lack of innovative gameplay inspired by said writing.

Indies have been the most willing to experiment, but that's mostly with pure mechanics or themes, and writing is still often neglected.

There have been a few titles that I think reach that potential, but most of them are quite old now. With so few to truly tickle me in that way, I'll instead opt for arcade type games that manage to create a tight gameplay loop, as it let's me not lament the lack of a good story so much.

You can only subscribe to communities on Lemmy, no individuals. For individuals, you'd want to use Mastodon (twitter-like) or Mbin (Reddit-like with Twitter-like abilities).

If you're new, I'd recommend installing Instance Assistant, then searching for communities that interest you either organically from your All or Local tabs, or searching across all instances with Lemmyverse.net

I agree, I think anger can be a motivating force toward positive action, and I don't begrudge anyone who uses it as fuel. But as he says, I think eventually it can burn out, in which case, hope and love become powerful long term fuels to push on.

And when anger begins to wane, replace it with hope.

I dunno if people would post so much for upvotes alone. Comments are nice, and I get friendly ones pretty frequently on my posts, and try to leave just as many on others posts :)

Edit: wait, I think I just wooshed myself

AirVPN has a pretty good reputation AKAIK, and their 2-year plans are cheaper than Mullvad and Proton.

Every movement begins with and is made up of individuals working toward making things better, which is how anything in history has ever gotten better. One more individual joining their local mutual aid group, protesting for the climate, and fighting for what's right is exactly what this world needs right now.

You may not have the ability to help someone across the world very effectively or at all, but if you fight for what's right locally, it can spread all across the globe.

Also @Atlas_@lemmy.world

The bot is designed to be resilient against those attacks, the creator goes into more detail here.

I put together a large list of categorized Linux compatible games, many of which are multiplayer, all if them are free, and each entry lists their open-source status. Hopefully y'all can find some good ones there for this group :)

Personally, I suggest OpenSpades

There's nothing from a user experience currently that makes bluesky bad, it's just that since it doesn't seem to actually support decentralization, there's nothing to stop it from eventually getting just as bad as twitter over time due to profit incentive. Misskey/mastodin are the only microblogging platforms that are truly immune from corporate manipulation and enshittification, which would mean it's a long term solution (that while imperfect, can only get better).

Huh, you're right, he has been absent. He still seems to be updating notrack over on his gitlab, so I have to assume he just got bored with videos, or some other aspect of his life took priority. I don't have a twitter account, so I can't see if he's posted there, but hopefully he's in good spirits and health.