Well, you've posted two things, both memes, and given that one was talking about people not posting and the other talking about niche communities not getting traffic -- and I assume that memes@lemmy.ml isn't niche -- I assume that you haven't posted to whichever community you'd like to see more traffic in. You could do so. Each new post also helps make the community more visible, at least on kbin, since it can show up in the random threads section on kbin instances.
If you just want a feed of the comics submitted to /r/polandball, lemmit.online runs a bot that will create a community on that instance and automatically mirror the posts on a subreddit. If you go to
and issue a request (post title consisting of "/r/polandball"), it'll create it and you can subscribe to that.
It won't mirror comments, though, which may or may not matter for you.
In the kind of tale any aspiring BOFH would be able to dine out on for months, the University of North Carolina has finally located one of its most reliable servers - which nobody had seen for FOUR years.
One of the university's Novell servers had been doing the business for years and nobody stopped to wonder where it was - until some bright spark realised an audit of the campus network was well overdue.
According to a report by Techweb it was only then that those campus techies realised they couldn't find the server. Attempts to follow network cabling to find the missing box led to the discovery that maintenance workers had sealed the server behind a wall.
I suspect that it works like the leafnode Usenet server did.
A full Usenet feed is a lot of traffic.
Leafnode would only download or update a newsgroup's contents when first requested by a client. But once it did so, it would store that data and make it available to other clients. It kept bandwidth requirements reasonable for Usenet servers with a small number of users.
The idea here is presumably aimed at scaling -- to basically try to only download what your users want, but once it comes down for one, to let all the others use it. Optimizes for your instance's bandwidth.
Kbin too. But, honestly, it's not the fault of the memers. One of the things that both Lemmy and kbin are gonna need is a reasonable way to recommend starting content.
Showing all is okay when there's virtually nothing on the Threadiverse, but it's a firehose weighted towards high-traffic communities as the Threadiverse activity ramps up.
Maybe have an option to show, instead of just "all" or "subscribed", "recommended".
Ideally it'd be nice to try to recommend based on existing subscriptions or viewed content, but short of that, one approach might be to only show a percentage of posts on high-traffic communities, and as traffic rises, reduce that percentage. So you see a few posts from high-traffic communities, but not all of them. That'd help with discovery of lower-traffic communities.
I don't really see how doing first-party development and acquiring third-party IP is functionally different. Nintendo still isn't going to release a Zelda title on other platforms.
Maybe there's a human psychology element there -- if a title already was available across platforms, I feel like I "lost" something. With a first-party title, I never had it in the first place. Humans do have loss aversion, are more upset about losing something then not getting it in the first place.
But it seems to me that any rational economic restrictions on acquiring third-party IP to do exclusives should also apply to first-party development.
Low-resolution pixel art lets a game be developed with comparatively-inexpensive assets and lets the brain interpolate the missing information.
My guess is that various obscuring distortions can have a similar effect. If your brain sees it as noise getting in the way of what's really there, it will try to fill in the correct stuff.
I think that some of the problem is that AAA games leverage a high budget. That lets them do things that you can only do with a high budget. But in order to pay for the development, they cannot afford to move down the long tail very far. To be a financial success, they must sell many copies. And it's safer to target a genre that is known to be able to sell to a large playerbase than to do something that has not demonstrated the ability to do so in the past.
I haven't played multiplayer competitive games in many years. The last time I did so much was Quake 2-based Team Fortress-style mods.
But on some of those, the team size was large enough that it didn't matter much if someone was just goofing around, because it didn't make a huge difference. If you have 12 players on a side, someone is a single-digit percentage of the effort.
But if you're playing something like, I dunno, Dota 2, then you're a quarter of the team, and that's impossible.
Maybe it's an argument for games designed around larger teams.
Dots 2 permits for synergies among characters, like one character to buff others, but maybe one could cap that, say that only four players of twelve or something can be leveraging synergies.
According to the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry, the United States flag never becomes obsolete. Any approved American flag may continue to be used and displayed until no longer serviceable.[188]
The "Grand Union Flag", or the "Continental Colours", (also known as the "Congress Flag", the "Cambridge Flag", and the "First Navy Ensign") was the first national flag of the United States of America. First hoisted on December 3, 1775 by naval officer John Paul Jones, the flag was used heavily by the Second Continental Congress of the United States, as well as by Commander George Washington in his Continental Army during the early years of the American Revolutionary War.
Similar to the current U.S. flag, the Grand Union Flag has 13 alternating red and white stripes, representative of the Thirteen Colonies. The upper inner corner, or canton, features the Union Jack, or flag of the Kingdom of Great Britain, of which the colonies were subjects.
A lot of these suggestions are not really alternatives to Google News, as such. That is, OP is asking for something that does better recommendations of content. You could hypothetically, I guess, use RSS feeds as backends for source material, and expose a user-specific derived RSS feed of recommendations, but recommending content is not really what an RSS reader does.
Something directly analogous to Google News would index sites, build a profile on you, and then recommend content that you want to see.
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For the slope to be meaningful, one would want to adjust for inflation.