Stop using the word "proletariat" when you clearly do not understand what it means and clearly have not read any of the theory from which the word was popularized
Ultimately Lemmy may not be the software now to do what you want for your community. Federation may also not be the right thing for a community of your ethos. Maybe the simplest solution is complete defederation and build the community in an environment you can completely control, even with the limits Lemmy current provides with it's software. Come back to the fediverse when you feel the software matches the ambitions, but in the meantime build the community you want.
This is it and what they've always really wanted in my eyes, but the userbase here and in their communities still values federation so they don't want to actually make that jump.
The rules and culture of this instance demands centralization, not federation. They might as well just make their own site.
I don't love the drama and FUD about the platform and devs.
Then I guess they shouldn't be opening living spaces to other people for commercial purposes. Almost like doing that implies you have a responsibility to your guests
Now, it's kind of the point. But I don't know if it was my mouse or what but I found the controls to be too poorly implemented with how difficult of a game it already is. Sometimes, the hammer would basically glitch out or would apply way more pressure relative to my movements and fling me back down to the button. It served as an element of frustration that I think goes against the design goals. I've seen speed runs that make me think it could have been my hardware, but I'll never know. Actually, remembering, I think I switched to a different mouse eventually that was better but still not great.
I also just didn't really ever buy into the premise. I know it's an ode to B games, but the piling of random assets is not what I would consider good design even if they serve the purpose of what the game is going for. There are plenty of difficult video games that are about perseverance but still put in the effort in level design, mechanics, controls, etc.
Tbh, I found it an interesting enough experiment with failed execution. I don't understand people who hold it up as one of the better "art" games in the medium.
I typically patient game nowadays. I still have games from two years ago to get to and I'm currently slowly playing through Baldur's Gate 1 so I probably wasn't going to Day 1 this anyway.
But I thought about it.
Tbh, while I don't really care for the big name review sites, there's enough mixed reviews on the storytelling, procedural generation, and RPG systems, that I think I'm going to keep this in my wishlist for a while.
Might look at it closer later in the year and when I have more free time or just wait for the inevitable GOTY edition
"can't trust the intelligence agencies, only Noam Chomsky"
The model isn't a personal opinion. It was created by Chomsky, yes, and Edward Herman, but it's just a framework for analyzing media and appeared first in a published work alongside numerous "case studies" featuring a litany of citations detailing not only the stark difference between how our media covers our own actions vs "enemy states" but also how those very own intelligence agencies meddled in multiple other countries, including Vietnam, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and more.
Ace Combat and Kojima games do get criticism for their plots, though.
If you include a narrative, it's fair game.
Would y'all be lenient on mediocre mechanics of a "cinematic, narrative" game if it had a great story because "you know what you're getting into"? From my experience, most of a certain type of gamer wouldn't be.
85 average and 8/10 scores are hardly big knocks, either.
"You talk clean and bomb hospitals
So I speak with the foulest mouth possible"
RTJ
And I think we're aware things won't happen quickly, but that doesn't mean we have to be uncritical of capitalist politicians who are also actively hostile to leftism.
Also every inherently flawed, means tested, half measure liberal policy that gets confused for leftism (like Obamacare, which was based on Heritage Foundation ideas) just makes it harder to get support on the left.
Most people who came here two months ago did so because they explicitly wanted to leave Reddit, but not because of Reddit content or the site culture. It was because admin decisions on third party apps and the API.
They still wanted Reddit, just with different Admins and different apps. Ideally, they'd have wanted communities to fully migrate over.
lemmy.world specifically became basically a lifeboat, having been linked to from original third party apps.
Yes, it was created and had the technical and resource requirements to keep up with the new influx of users without constantly crashing (in the beginning), but nonetheless, that meant it got the largest influx of the migration.
It's honestly a bit strange for me to see people in here with two month old accounts saying "oh yeah the culture has just changed so much".
You all were the change. It's that influx of users that basically brought Reddit here.
Anyone who came here before the API changes did so either because they had some kind of issues with Reddit, whether it was the dominant culture or what, and wanted an alternative or because they were interested in the open source and federated nature of the project regardless of Reddit's own decisions.
Though tbf, pre migration, this place was basically dead. Posts would have a handful of comments at best and it was mostly Lemmygrad users and also FOSS enthusiasts. Hexbear was the most active Lemmy instance and was a chapotraphouse lifeboat formed in 2020 but it didn't federate so it was really mostly just Lemmy.ml as a general instance and Lemmygrad unless you explicitly knew and cared for Hexbear. Neither was very "toxic" in their own communities and there really wasn't much inter instance fighting, even if there still were people on lemmy.ml who didn't care for grad, as far as I remember. I honestly mostly lurked and didn't participate often.
The apps also were much worse.
Things started picking up as the API announcement happened. That's probably when we had the best balance of positivity and user growth.
It exploded when the API changes went into effect and voila.
Still, I would say it's mostly still a bit better than Reddit and there's more effort in commenting for the most part.
I don't think I've seen a pun chain or a "he's not your buddy, guy" or anything like that.
The people you may refer to as conservatives are, generally, also liberals using literally that same Wikipedia article and the classical definition of the word.
The modern dominant economic system in the world is called neoliberalism. It was first made popular by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It was continued by Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, and now Biden.
Do not confuse the politico landscape with academic definitions.
Stop using the word "proletariat" when you clearly do not understand what it means and clearly have not read any of the theory from which the word was popularized
"Proletariat" != "impoverished"