atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on Bringing Achievements To The Nintendo Entertainment System 2 days ago:
I dunno. Perhaps because I don’t play a lot of games with exorbitant amounts of achievements but for me in games like Hollow Knight were sort of a roadmap. The thing is, you can just complete the ones you want. In my playthrough on the switch (where some of the achievements were just hidden), I didn’t get the same sense of having checked something off my list as I did when playing on steam. It’s almost like since nobody can really see them there’s no joy in it. But on steam I felt more pride in those same achievements.
- Comment on Date Everything!’s latest datable object is a 20-sided die voiced by Matt Mercer 5 days ago:
Not what I thought of when I rear the words “date everything”.
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 days ago:
Bill Gates doesn’t run Microsoft anymore. He’s not the CEO and largely not responsible for the change in their business model.
Also, I game on Linux more than I do on windows (though I do have a partition in my drive to run windows for games I couldn’t get working on steam OS/ Bazzite. It’s literally 4 games out of over 100.
- Comment on Musk's xAI buys social media platform X for $45 billion 5 days ago:
You know. This sounds like some shit Terry Pratchett wrote about in “Making Money”. Product is making money hand over fist, but never turns a profit so they sell it to themselves with its own money or something.
- Comment on TikTok ban loses momentum as fewer Americans view it as a security threat 6 days ago:
I’m so tired of people who literally won’t look at their threat model and admit that this app could even potentially be a threat to them in any way.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 6 days ago:
So you don’t think having a mental illness or malady can detrimentally affect the physical wellbeing of the person with the malady despite multiple studies that say otherwise. Good to know.
- Comment on Is it rude to reply using English under posts in a language you can’t speak? 6 days ago:
If that’s the only language you have to communicate, I’d say more power to you. If you can translate what you’re saying using online tools, that might better facilitate communication and conversation.
- Comment on Content moderation is what a 21st century hazardous job looks like 6 days ago:
So, are you one of the “mental healthcare isn’t real healthcare” people, or are you just butthurt and unable to be objective because some mod banned you one time?
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
They better not touch my damn control panel. I’ll fight a microsoft systems engineer. They can be added to the list.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
My biggest problems with Teams are system slowdown (this was a big issue before I got my new work laptop), and different versions of Teams launching at startup (personal as default and then you have to choose professional or whatever and wait for it to reload everything). Back during the pandemic I had two different Teams (one for my reserve component, and one for my regular job) and it was a nightmare.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
It’s searchable but information doesn’t stay pinned and available. It’s meant to be a chatroom style place for gaming and as that it’s fine but when you want to build a community for something like a video game or a. Product, what ends up happening is you end up making a channel for every single announcement etc. say you have a channel for FAQ? You either lock it so only moderators and admins can use it or you end up with a constantly ballooning channel where everyone can contribute. There’s no in-between and because each post isn’t really collated the way it would be here or on a forum the information is hard to navigate without search which often only gives a truncated section that you can’t even navigate to. There’s no context more often than not when you use the search function and it’s a very poor substitute for a forum as a result.
I don’t think discord is a good substitute for a website and I don’t think it’s a good substitute for a forum but it’s being used as both fairly frequently.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
What are its pros and cons? What does it offer that telegram or similar don’t offer? Is it good for group chat? Is it available on multiple platforms?
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
Tell me about Element. This is the first I’m hearing about it.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
First and foremost I’d like to point out that this alarm has been sounded before. In the early 2010’s, in the late 2010’s, during the pandemic etc. Part of that is because megaforums like reddit (slack, github, and I guess digg) swallowed them up. Which is more convenient for the average user (younger internet users especially) who only have to go to one or two places with apps that allow them to use their phone to format in a readable/engageable manner for them.
I would posit that the internet forum isn’t dying exactly so much as it has morphed into things like the above mentioned megaforums. Those megaforums have their own trials and tribulations but they are popular for multiple reasons.
Ease of use - One tap to open an app you’re already signed into on a phone or tablet from anywhere.
Ease of discoverability - An algorithm that helps you to find things to engage with. An algorithm that promotes content that lots of other people engage with so that new users who don’t have preferences known yet can still find things they like.
Ease of navigation and search - I’m still using udm14.com to search for things on lemmy because if I don’t save them the search function on the site isn’t good and doesn’t always provide me with results at all. Reddit’s search is pretty bad but it’s still more usable than lemmy’s in a lot of ways.
Easy to sign up - I think this speaks for itself. Lemmy has a higher bar to clear for vetting an instance and even understanding the difference between instances than any other corpo platform, and while this has gotten easier over time, it will never be as simple as, go to this website and fill out the form to make an account.
I say all that to say that 1. we got here by ignoring the warnings for years and years. 2. We can compete but are unlikely to be the number one choice of the general internet masses for a lot of reasons. 3. Smaller forums will continue to die and get swallowed up by megaforum websites or platforms like reddit or lemmy because of the benefit of convenience on the user side and I believe we have probably reached the point of no return in that respect.
As to what we do about it? We cultivate ours to be better, add features and users in an organic way that would make our platform the preferred one. But we can’t really focus on growth alone and part of the reason for that has to do with the user subset who don’t want to become like reddit or digg etc. Additionally, I think we might be able to win over the artists and creators if we added something to prevent AI from scraping their works.
The main thing for users who are already here might just be better decorum. Lemmy users are often mean (myself included in that statement) to people who we view as stupid or ill-informed and we often treat them like trolls. We also assume a certain amount of known information about any given situation and act as if everyone should know, which is problematic.
One last thing I’d like to point out. People on the internet more and more engage with content they don’t have to read. I think that’s an important part of why forums are dying. Illiteracy is rising. It’s hard to have a conversation in written or typed forums when you don’t have that skillset. Discord allows people to engage via voice in ways lemmy just does not (this is not advocacy for discord because it’s not a forum and treating it as one is problematic on just about every level).
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
I don’t think giving them more information to use against you. Is a good thing. Think about it this way, even if the police have you on camera in an area where a crime is committed, that doesn’t mean you can’t still plead the fifth and request a lawyer (assuming you’re in the US). You aren’t required to further their investigation.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 1 week ago:
Several years back now, one of my colleagues was very much into the genealogy thing. She had major problems I think with needing to find herself or where she fit in or whatever. She was very much pushing me to try one of the DNA genealogy testing services and I had to be very firm about not wanting to participate in it.
This is why. My sense of self has never been in question and I don’t need to attribute who or what I am to some people I’ve never met or culture I haven’t participated in or been a part of. I have been considered “other” my whole life by in groups who only wanted me to identify with the bits and pieces of my culture or personality that they approved of and I pretty much had to get over that at a young age in order to not feel inadequate or content with myself.
As a result these always seemed like services that over promise and under deliver and they ask for way more privileged information than I am comfortable with giving away to anyone (I was skeptical when my doctor wanted me to participate in cancer screening via DNA testing because the only angle I could see for wanting it that would be profitable to an insurance firm was to deny me coverage later). Every time something hits the media about a leak or mismanagement of customer data, I am vindicated in my belief that it’s not worth the price of admission.
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 1 week ago:
I have questions about what auto shops you think are doing recalls because it’s only Tesla’s service centers are going to be legally allowed to perform the recall (that’s how it works for every automaker). So it’s the same place they’re already going to protest (in most cases) and the same insurance. Regardless, the recall isn’t an “insurance thing per se” because Tesla the company is the insurance in this case. They will be footing to bill for any and all repairs done under recall. And more than likely the recalled vehicles won’t be sitting around the shop or lot waiting for parts because it’s up to consumers who will absolutely take their vehicle and leave if parts aren’t in stock.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I thought we had a whole community just for Musk BS. This isn’t tech.
- Comment on People Are Using AI to Create Influencers With Down Syndrome Who Sell Nudes 2 weeks ago:
Because a lot of the reason that child sexual abuse is so horrific and wrong has to do with their developmental age and understanding of what’s happening and ability to give consent. To understand and make an informed decision about what it even means to give consent. And a potentially developmentally challenged adult may not be able to do that. Nobody is overlooking the adult part. They are saying that adult in form doesn’t equal able to act as and make decisions as an adult. You are the one ignoring this to further your argument.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 3 weeks ago:
That’s true but it’s a race to the top. Resellers selling cards at a price that is twice or more the MSRP. Meaning that these companies have to jump through hoops not to sell to them or raise prices to make it less likely they’ll buy them if they can’t profit. And everybody else loses.
- Comment on We all deserve better than this 3 weeks ago:
Most of my hatred for it (if you can call it that) has to do with putting AI in everything. Blockchain makes sense in certain instances. I wouldn’t say for money, but for information tracking etc. AI LLM’s make sense in certain instances. But it’s everywhere and it’s taking the place of tech I use daily but doing a worse job overall by a wide enough margin that I just can’t stand it. And I don’t understand why companies want to put it in everything except that they don’t want to be the only ones not shilling it.
There are always people who come out of the woodwork to claim it works for them but half of them don’t even have a good understanding of how or why it works for them, and a lot of them are just lazy. I look at AI as a bandaid type tech in most of its applications right now and I’m tired of fighting to opt out of it.
- Comment on FCC chair says we’re too dependent on GPS and wants to explore ‘alternatives’. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. It’s grift. They want a privatized solution.
- Comment on TIL: photon is an awesome opinionated web client for Lemmy to help users discover the fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
What does “opinionated” mean in this context?
- Comment on Actually, it’s about Ethics in Transgenderism 4 weeks ago:
This is a lot of the problem that I see with social media as a whole. Doesn’t matter if it’s the fediverse or regular corporate social media platforms. The problem is users in echo chambers spouting a lot of things that don’t ever take into account the whole situation.
The “anyone who naysays anything I believe or say” crowd is alive and well on both sides of the political aisle and they use the same tactics.
-Anyone who has a logical problem with something I’m trying to do is a Nazi or a sealion.
-Anyone “who didn’t vote because they have a moral reason to abstain to show the political party that it’s not good enough to just not be the other guy anymore” is a Trump supporter or a vote for Trump.
- Anyone who brings up the fact that there are nearing 1 million homeless people in America in 2025 and only 1 in 10 homeless people actually have the opportunity to vote - is using whataboutism arguments.
What I’m saying is, it’s not just the transgender community seeing these problems and the problem is people on social media as a whole existing only in echo chambers.
The thing is, echo chambers are natural but they’re also divisive. The people that exist in them peer pressure each other and subvert every narrative, pitting people who are nominally on the same side against one another because they don’t happen to agree on one or two issues, or don’t agree on how to effect real change. And anyone who admits that there are problems that need to be fixed before we can move forward, or education that needs to happen in order for everybody to get on the same page and work towards a common goal gets alienated or excommunicated.
Believe it or not, this happens in every single community. And while I think it’s good that baseless reports were ignored in this instance, I don’t know that 1. This is happening everywhere, and 2. Every report is baseless just because you happen to be on the side of the person who the reports are against.
The fact that baseless reports were not acknowledged or verified in the other instance is exactly the problem. Because the problem is people. So on the one hand, you have a homeless person being harassed for their politics because their real.life experience negates the feeling some people in the platform have and those people reported her for it. And on the other hand you have a deranged individual actively weaponizinf the report button in order to harass someone with intent and their reports are at best being phoned in by admins and mods who cannot keep up with the influx, and at worst are being views partially rather than impartially and allowed to victimize the user that was targeted, which was the intent.
The cognitive dissonance is happening on both sides of the aisle, and even though the way it manifests is absolutely different in some ways, the fact is, it is happening and it’s a deteiment to any movement that organizes or attempts to organize.
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just about the mics. The location data, microphone data, and accelerometer/vibration data are also important and the phones are likely cheaper than other specialized equipment, which may have factored into it. Especially if they bought them a generation or so behind.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
Oh, one of the first things I did was group policy edit anything to do with tracking, ads, or AI.
- Comment on The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis 5 weeks ago:
This week the big news is that the government is selling off all EV’s bought by the previous administration and shutting down all the federal owned charging stations used to charge these vehicles. So this right here is Trump taking something Biden tried to do and using it to line Elon Musk’s grubby pockets and that tracks.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
I don’t understand why people ask this. Most people you talk to on Lemmy will say they don’t want the userbase to grow much more than it has because with that growth comes the other problems that larger platforms like shitter and reddit have.
That’s true by and large and we also don’t have enough moderators here as is.
And for reasons I don’t understand, people keep asking why mainstream media outlets, influencers, and other trust accounts don’t transition to the fediverse, as if they won’t bring with them an influx of users (at least a fraction of which would be considered undesirable).
Why do you want them to come here? (As someone who would like to see Lemmy grow, I’m curious about how you think this will rollout and what the consequences will be). I would like to see Lemmy grow but I’m not sure all of that growth will have solely good follow-on effects.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
“But it turns out that, while this screenshot is indeed real, those eagle-eyed enough should already be able to tell that something isn’t quite lining up here. In fact, nearly any Windows 11 user could open up the fully updated Notepad without getting this pop-up at all, even if they aren’t already signed into a Microsoft account. So, what’s the deal here?”
“The key is in the exact wording, identifiable within the first sentence: “Sign in with your Microsoft account to use Rewrite and its features in Notepad.” This is a prompt that exists, yes, but one that’s exclusive to Copilot+ PCs and explicitly requires the user to trigger it by clicking the Rewrite button, as confirmed by our own testing.”
tomshardware.com/…/no-notepad-for-windows-11-does…
techradar.com/…/seen-those-complaints-online-abou…
Please read the article. No. My access to notepad is not restricted. I also don’t run any copilot features of any kind on windows 11. Yes, I believe Generative AI Copilot is enabled by default, but in this case the only time you get promoted to login is when you use a feature in notepad that directly needs copilot in order to work and you the user have to select that feature. Meaning you can use notepad without it entirely and never even see this prompt at all.
- Comment on After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad 5 weeks ago:
This is misinformation. They added the login requirement for their Generative AI and the actual notepad doesn’t require a login. But I guess we’re ragebaiting today.