Please definitely don't be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.
Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the "gaming in general" communities.
But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can't be beat. Hang in there, and you'll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.
How dare you say something like this? Who do you think you are?!
j/k of course. This community has definitely been like a breath of fresh air after metaphorically living for years in a crowded bunker where everyone was constantly passing gas. I'm happy to be here.
Leaving this site as well, as it keeps a mention as to whether an instance is currently allowing open sign ups or not.
Note: Even if an instance isn't currently allowing open sign ups, they may have another sign up method going on in the background (like application/approval sign ups). If you're interested in the instance, you should still check, just don't expect quick/instant approval.
Hmmm... the admins said today on this post chain (at about 10a UTC) that they were going to making a blog post regarding this issue.
So hopefully more clarification will be coming. At this point they've heard from enough users to know that there's pointed disagreement with federating with Threads for more than a nanosecond after they become visible.
Agreed. Ruud has done a lot of great things for .world in its short time, but I don't agree with his decision on this... I do hope he changes his mind.
There's no need to "give Meta a chance," they've already demonstrated who they are time and again. And I don't want to end up having to leave .world in the future because the traditional Fediverse split in two, and .world is on the wrong side of it.
I don't think it's a question yet. I've seen several people say today that Threads doesn't have federation enabled. It's possible that they'll want to stay in their own walled-off ecosystem.
But I do think it would be prudent to have a plan of attack ready to go to cut them off immediately if they ever change their minds about that. Every respectable instance in the Fediverse should.
I don't know what their intentions are in full, but they certainly won't be good from our perspective. We came here to free ourselves from corporate shackles, not bind ourselves back up in them.
You all might not be aware, but I think Rudd started this server only at the beginning of June for funsies, probably only expecting a couple of hundred users.
Then, of course, came Reddit API-calypse. Now, here we are barely 4 weeks later, almost 80k users on the instance. From nothing, to a respectable chuck of the fediverse, just that fast. Pretty amazing.
The Deck does not always like running games at high or ultra graphics settings.
The good news is that if you're playing handheld on the native screen, a drop to low or medium for better frame rates isn't always noticeable.
Same thing if you decide to run a game at a lower 16:10 resolution and then use FSR to upscale it... the bit of extra blur introduced isn't that noticeable on the small screen. It's a good trick to get a bit more oomph when running AAA games (like when I played through Jedi: Fallen Order last year, I set it to 500p and FSR to get a stable 40 FPS lock in most of the game).
This isn't going to happen until the majority of the country implements ranked choice voting, so that third party voting isn't just throwing your vote away. As long as we are in the current system, third party voting is pointless.
Focus your efforts on getting ranked choice adopted. It is the key that will actually unlock the ability to vote for third parties.
Others here have probably mentioned it, but I've heard the Deck is fantastic in situations where you use a main powerhouse PC to run a game (especially at the Deck's resolution of 800p), then stream it through your local network to the Deck.
I don't do that, but I daily drive a Steam Deck and can attest that it's a fantastic device handheld. It'll play a TON of stuff at low/medium settings natively, and you have a big PC to handle the top tear graphics-card-melters, which you can stream from (in that scenario the Deck is fine as it takes very little of the load).
My only caution point is the small screen. It's 7 inches diagonal, so small print in games can be tough, especially if you have 40s eyes like me. Otherwise, it's exceeded wildly beyond my expectations.
morgan423 @ morgan_423 @lemmy.world Posts 4Comments 392Joined 2 yr. ago
Please definitely don't be discouraged in the slightest, TPM.
Single-game forums were almost always the smallest gaming subreddits on Reddit, often times being several orders of magnitude smaller than the "gaming in general" communities.
But that special feeling of having other people passionate about that specific game you love can't be beat. Hang in there, and you'll definitely grow and get that engagement in time.