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- Comment on Make sure you get in early fellow Patriots! 1 week ago:
This is a legitimate pump and dump scam. Probably the worst post ever to this community which is saying something.
- Comment on The State of Lemmy (drama) 2 weeks ago:
My advice is that we don’t always have to engage with with every opinion on the internet.
I especially consider this advice when an .ml or other far-left instance user posts tankie propaganda, rather than engage with it or make a meta post about it, just ignore it. Block the user and move on.
There are many many inherently negative and unhappy people online, not just here. These kind of people aren’t going to be swayed by random comments, they will just trap you in their negativity.
Everyone should empower themselves and use their individual moderation tools like block or mute, they may find they have a better experience. Not that we should block any one who disagrees with us, but there’s no reason to be brought down by someone who finds it their life mission to harass or bring down an entire group of people.
- Comment on Outrage as Wikipedia changes grooming gangs article to ‘moral panic’ from the 'Far-Right' 2 weeks ago:
Wikipedia can be edited by anyone and lots of pages go through these edit wars and it takes time sometimes for the dust to settle and bans, etc. to happen. It looks completely fine as it f right now.
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 3 weeks ago:
The worse part is, they don’t really need to bug your mic to figure out what you are talking about to target ads to you. The best sales leads are the family and friends of your existing customers. So say you talk to you coworker about how they switched to this new diaper rash cream for their baby. You might not have a baby but you talked about it and somehow you got ads for diaper rash cream. What really happened though is that your coworker bought their cream on Amazon and that brand purchased target ads for everyone whose location data was nearby them. Or they bought it for everyone whose phone was connected to the same IP address. We have so much data tracked about us that they can guess what we are talking about without actually having to tap our phone lines
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 3 weeks ago:
I definitely plan on playing Black Mesa on PC at some point. I played Half Life on PS2 this time. I wanted something a little closer to the original state the game released in but I don’t have a retro PC. But I’m ready to enjoy it more modernly
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 3 weeks ago:
I actually like the platforming in the game but the low gravity in Xen does make it annoying. Missed so many jumps, definitely abused quick save
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 3 weeks ago:
“Forget about Freeman” the last thing you hear before shit gets real
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- Comment on Luck be a Landlord Might Be Banned from Google Play 4 weeks ago:
I have no idea about the game and whether it actually contains gambling content or is just being auto flagged due to the title but this kind of crap is why I hate big tech and is why I hope we eventually have a future where decentralized services rule over big tech.
- Comment on Is Mario Kart Double Dash the best one? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know if it’s the best one (that’s probably Mario Kart 8 although I don’t care for it), but it’s the most fun for me.
The items and characters make for fun strategy in choosing a team a kart. It may not be super balanced but it’s fun and not as unbalanced as Mario Kart Wii imo. One of my bucket list items is to play a 8/16 player race on 8 GCNs using the LAN adapter
- Comment on My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think the fediverse needs a fancy explanation that is non-boring. Either you care about federation and the decentralized control of the fediverse and it makes sense to you. Or you don’t care and those features then become roadblocks to getting on boarded.
- Comment on Is the Fediverse Too Complex? Can It Embrace Simplicity Without Losing Its Identity? 4 weeks ago:
The fediverse isn’t that complicated, if you really care about ownership and control and the portability of data when it comes to using a social network.
The fediverse is just complicated enough that it is a big enough barrier to keep people that don’t care about those things from getting on boarded usually. There isn’t really a good way to make those factors less complicated with out compromising them for the whole reason people currently prefer the fediverse.
However there are some other pain points that could be addressed that I think will make things simpler for those who aren’t privacy/tech/decentralization focused.
Starter packs for one. Allow instance hosts to maintain starter packs for people to follow if they choose during the onboarding process. A lot of people complain about having empty or inactive feeds. Starter packs solve that easily. Especially if there is a repo for communities to submit their own starter packs as well.
Better discoverability. I know some people don’t want search to improve but it’s pretty hard to find people through actual Mastodon search. I dont know if it’s just do to a lack of users and content or if that’s something that truly needs improving. But basically my follows are usually found off platform and then manually followed or I follow someone I discover via a hashtag.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 4 weeks ago:
Great just like games like Fortnite and Call of Dity Mobile have bots with real usernames and profiles to fill lobbies, now literally everyone online could be a bot with a fake profile.
I’m prepared to just be gaslit for the rest of my life from now on
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 4 weeks ago:
I like mastodon a lot. I have basically found my hashtags, people and news sources to follow and so my feed is always filled with content to read. Engagement is fairly good on my instance, at least with popular topics.
But I only have 20 followers in 18 months of being on it so if that kind of thing is important to you then it can be something of a negative. Harder to build an audience without an algorithmic recommendation feature feeding your posts to strangers. I find that to be a positive though.
- Comment on What is the difference between lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works? 2 months ago:
Being subscription based is what makes it feasible for smaller instances to exist on the fediverse. If every instance had to be a full mirror of the network only a few small groups could afford to host instances.
- Comment on PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster 2 months ago:
I would curious to see if you could access piefed using Voyager for Lemmy as a front end. It’s about the only decent app for Lemmy that doesn’t squash things on my iPhone mini with text zoom enabled
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow 2 months ago:
Thank you for sharing, that’s exactly what I was looking for!
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow 2 months ago:
Corporate rot sounds better than just rot as enshittification happens on purpose due to seeking to extract maximum value from something where as rot is just a natural consequence of atrophy over time
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow 2 months ago:
I’ve read over the documentation a few times and maybe I’ve missed it somewhere else but I’m not aware of any option to host a relay yet. As far as I know only self hosting PDS’s are an option now (which only handle your own data and authentication but still relies on a relay to serve you content from the rest of the network) and app views (which are the front ends that sort and show content)
So in a sense bluesky is distributed and portable within the ATProto network, but still centralized until other entities can host relays and interopt (or opt out of interoperability) within the network.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
It also acts as a filter to keep threat actors and spammers out. Open sign ups are actually a bad thing for the overall health of the network. Yes it also keeps out the lowest common denominator normies but those aren’t exactly the ones who contribute to the network as a whole anyway
This isn’t capitalism, there isn’t a need for growth for growth’s sake. There does need to be a more simplified way to onboard users but not at the cost of the health of the network.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
Bluesky is not decentralized if you have to use their relay to access the network from your PDS
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
If the reason people only want bluesky is because it’s Elon-less Twitter then they are stupid and wrong (or just ignorant). But then they can move to the next thing in 5 years when the enshittification happens.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 2 months ago:
Mastodon doesn’t silo its users, that’s what federation is for. Everything you post on the public timeline is essentially public for everyone that’s on a federated instance that hasn’t gotten blocked.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 2 months ago:
The idea would be the servers would have shared ban/block lists and similar rules so that they can share the load of having open sign ups.
Basically a coop of instances to improve on-boarding. If you join the coop then you get added to the pool of instances that get assigned normies at random.
If the authentication was federated it’d be ideal as well but I assume this would be outside the scope of AP and would cause issues if you tried to post from your mastodon.social account from mastodon.world’s server for instance.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
The bridges are singular points of failure. If the bridge you use goes down you lose all your audience that was on that bridge. It’s better than nothing however. I will consider normies using threads and Bluesky a win as much as I can but it’d be so more ideal if we just all were on open and truly federated protocols instead of relying on half measures
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
Not really. You can host your own data but you still rely on Bluesky’s services to access it. And there is no realistic way to migrate your content or audience to another platform outside their control
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 2 months ago:
57 different 3rd party apps is probably a good start. Mastodon has to be easy to on-board and it isn’t for someone with no technical understanding what domains, servers or instances are. To that group Bluesky makes sense. You are signing up for Bluesky. Try to onboard that group to mastodon and they don’t understand if they are on mastodon.social or mastodon.world or any other instance.
Why would they be on one of those fringe services with less users than bluesky? That’s what a non expert understands
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 2 months ago:
I deleted my Reddit back in the API debacle (well I deleted all my content, still squatting on the username since I use it else where as well)
Being here shows that there really is no reason to go back to Reddit for the default subs which are just absolutely useless karma farms. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze for niche subs, I do hope that the fediverse will grow enough to support the niche interests without falling into the enshittification pitfalls of corporate social media
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 2 months ago:
The whole point of federation is that content is coming from all sorts of different sources all with different levels of trust.
The default sharing behavior should be the cached version of a post, because the instance you’re on should be trusted to defederated from harmful instances and so that trust should carry over to those you interact with.
- Comment on Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime. 2 months ago:
What’s wrong with technology connections? He makes easily digestible if not a bit snarky videos on classic and popular tech. It’s not really appropriate for this community though so I can see why you wouldn’t care for it being posted here
