And it's not like exporting your subs to a CSV file or something to then upload to your new account on your new instance will work. Different instances will have different communities, so it won't be a 1:1 transition.
I can definitely see the friction for new users if this happens.
We all know people are lazy, so if the friction proposed by Lemmy is more of a burden compared to the inconvenience proposed by Reddit or another social media platform, then people won't change.
It would be interesting if there could be some tool that proposes similar communities on the instance you're joining based on the communities you were subscribed to in your previous instance. Community federation could allow for that linked list that could be reverse searched and served to a user, precluded by uploading a CSV file of your previous communities so you don't have to keep track of individual users in a server somewhere (which is anti-privacy anyways, and Lemmy imho is pro-privacy).
Would hydrothermal vents produce enough heat? Or would the oceans freeze over? And then would there just be thermal bubbles surrounding the vents in oceanic ice?
I love AOC. I'd vote for her in a heartbeat in primary and general elections. Now, whether she makes it to the general depends on the DNC, and I have no faith that the political consultant/establishment class will let anything remotely progressive through. No money to be made.
I guess the only way forward would be to vote for her in the primaries to such a degree that the Dems have not choice but to confirm her through.
Welcome! If you have any questions about the fediverse or piracy in general, feel free to post or shoot the community some questions in this thread. We're glad you made the switch!!!
Depending on where you grew up and were taught geography, America may or may not have been taught to you as a combined landmass from the Southern tip of Chile to the northern islands of Canada, or separate continents split near Central America.
There is no right or wrong way of defining that. It all depends on custom and convention.
The reason you say why people from the USA respond with the United States when people ask them where they're from is likely because it's a shortened version of the full country name. This is similar to asking someone born in the United Mexican States that they're from Mexico, or someone from the People's Republic of China that they're from China, or someone from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland that they're British (or Scottish or Irish or Welsh), or someone from the Argentine Republic that they're Argentinian, or someone from the Boliviaran Republic of Venezuela that they're Venezuelan, or someone from the Republic of Korea that they're South Korean (although most people actually just refer to this country as Korea, but that might depend on regional differences too depending on which country you grew up in and were taught from).
Another reason might be how the USA's government is structured. We have a federation where the overall government is a sum total of Tribal, State, and Federal governments. People of indigenous tribes in the USA refer to themselves as Native Americans or Indigenous, while people from different states have names for themselves (e.g. Michiganders from Michigan, Californians from California, Kansans from Kansas, Hoosiers from Indiana). You might think that because the federal government, officially called the "United States" in our constitution, covers the entirely of the geography of the USA that that's how you would refer to people from that nation. And you would be somewhat right because the US takes on international relations per the duties outlined in the constitution. But it would be false to refer to the whole country as just the US. The whole country is the USA, and perhaps that is why people from that country refer to themselves as American.
Why can't we have a more nuanced discussion where we talk about how each country/culture prefers to be referred to? I think it's pretty asinine to refer to the people of, for instance, South Korea as South Koreans because that's my American conception of that country, when in reality people of the Republic of Korea refer to themselves as Hanguk-in or Hanguk-saram. I would be perfectly fine with referring to that people using that terminology.
Why do we have to force labels and categories onto peoples when we could just listen to them for what they prefer themselves
Wow, it's almost as if words have meaning. Does this mean we should take the word democracy out of the current American government and replace it with fascism since that's what it is? NO MORE FASCIST GOVERNMENT WITH THE WORD DEMOCRATIC IN IT.
Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the Dems are also shifting right: to capture back corporate donors, instead of listening to the wants and needs of their base.
No I agree with you on the Steam license thing. That's why I used quotations in my previous comment.
But Game Pass isn't any better. It's worse than licensing games because, again, Microsoft can choose to remove games from Pass at will.
The Steam Deck can do what you describe as well. Some prefer SteamOS for it's sleekness, where Windows can become bloated over time. Then you also don't need to factor in how Windows machines need to have the price of Windows built into their purchase price. The SD runs off of SteamOS, which is a free OS provided by Valve. And yes, dual booting to run SteamOS and Windows is possible, allowing users the same game and market compatibility as the ROG Ally.
SteamOS is the key factor for a lot of people here. Linus just did a video on it. Consider giving that a watch!
Game Pass doesn't give you ownership of games however. Microsoft can rotate games out of Game Pass in a matter of weeks to months. If you want to keep those, pay out CAPEX in addition to your ongoing OPEX costs via Game Pass.
And if those games you liked that you went out and bought have online multiplayer, well then you're locked into ongoing OPEX via Game Pass Core in order to get at least multiplayer access. This is regardless of whether you use Game Pass to explore new games.
Subscriptions also induce FOMO and create uncertainty costs. Microsoft can choose rotate a game out of Game Pass, which then forces you to make a decision about whether you play it to 100% completion before it's gone, or buy it. And because Game Pass is a subscription, Microsoft can choose to raise its prices for access to the same games for no real reason.
With Steam, I "own" my games so I know I can always play them for the foreseeable future. With Steam, if some of my games have multiplayer, I only need to pay my telco utility bill to gain access. With Steam, I don't have FOMO because my games aren't going away, and I limit my uncertainty costs because I only need to consider my telco utility raising prices and not my telco + Microsoft.
Ultimately though, I think the top comments of this reddit post speak to the pros and cons of both platforms. If there's an expensive AAA game coming out that you want to play, it's cheaper to do the Game Pass route to play on Day 1. If you want to own that game long term, you can stop Game Pass payments until the next Steam sale to get the game discounted (else you run into the above issues). Game Pass to try, Steam to "own". Plus with a Steam Deck, you can dual boot Windows and SteamOS, so you can do Game Pass PC and Steam on the same device. No need to really buy into the Xbox ecosystem.
And it's not like exporting your subs to a CSV file or something to then upload to your new account on your new instance will work. Different instances will have different communities, so it won't be a 1:1 transition.
I can definitely see the friction for new users if this happens.
We all know people are lazy, so if the friction proposed by Lemmy is more of a burden compared to the inconvenience proposed by Reddit or another social media platform, then people won't change.
It would be interesting if there could be some tool that proposes similar communities on the instance you're joining based on the communities you were subscribed to in your previous instance. Community federation could allow for that linked list that could be reverse searched and served to a user, precluded by uploading a CSV file of your previous communities so you don't have to keep track of individual users in a server somewhere (which is anti-privacy anyways, and Lemmy imho is pro-privacy).