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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is better: F-Zero or Super Mario Kart (SNES)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer F-Zero as it’s super fast, unique and fun, but Super Mario Kart is also pretty good and has multiplayer. Both have classic music and a very memorable look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a lot you aren’t taking into consideration, for example where those users are coming from.

  • Threads is just Instagram, it’s essentially the same account, so its users were baked in from the start. How many of those Threads users are just people who already used Instagram?
  • BlueSky really isn’t pulling users from Mastodon, it’s pulling them from “X.com”, which if nothing else represents a breaking up of old Twitter, which is good for decentralization in general. Any fracturing of social media is good for the fediverse.
  • Both Threads and BlueSky are, to some degree, copies of Mastodon in terms of their relationship with federation. Threads uses ActivityPub itself (a win for the fediverse, depending on how you look at it), and BlueSky has their own AT federation protocol, which shows that the ideas behind the fediverse are already winning out. It’s entirely possible that, at some point in the future, BlueSky and Mastodon learn to speak to each other using one of those protocols (or a new one), and then the fediverse wins by default.
  • Fediverse apps like Misskey are apparently doing great in Japan, which is great for the existence of Japanese artists and the international side of things.

  The fact that we’re here, right now, discussing this on the fediverse, shows that ActivityPub has come a long way. Bluesky is nothing more than a shallow copy of Mastodon with far less federation and far fewer features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For me, Cyberpunk 2077 was uninteractive and has low replayablility value.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played Cyberpunk, but I already felt that way about The Witcher 3, to some extent. CDPR makes nice looking games with seemingly vibrant and populated worlds, but I feel like interaction with the world and NPCs is pretty thin and boring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BlueSky is really just Twitter pretending to be Mastodon, but that’s a minor issue compared to the problems associated with platforms like “X” and TikTok today.

  What matters most right now is killing off Twitter and breaking up the dominance of any one platform on social media. I really don’t care where people go as long as they get the fuck off of Twitter and TikTok. Mastodon and open platforms will eventually win out in a divided social media ecosystem anyway, in my opinion. Divide and conquer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate nationalist social media like “X” (American oligarchy) and TikTok (Chinese oligarchy) are a danger to the sovereignty and stability of the Western world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oligarchs get cozy with oligarchs, what a shocker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t really the same answer.

  People suggest that Mastodon is too complicated for the average knuckle-dragging moron to use (and it might be, but frankly I consider that a pro, not a con) because it has “servers”, as if the entire point of the internet wasn’t to have a global network of communication across a multitude of clients and servers. Do these same people think the concept of websites and email are also too complex for the regular person? Maybe… But again, if the regular person is that fucking dumb do we really want have them in our community at all?

  What’s more, BlueSky is supposedly federated (or "will be"™), and as such it’ll have to deal with all of the same challenges around federation that Mastodon deals with, and people are kidding themselves if they think otherwise.

  Otherwise I agree with your last sentence. Social media is about money and fame, first and foremost. The average person will always go where the most money and fame are concentrated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You want the bullshit “Mastodon is too complicated and hard to use!” answer or the real answer?

  BlueSky has rich people behind it.