Olgratin_Magmatoe
@Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 5 days ago:
Becoming a lobbyist doesn’t sound like leaving politics.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 5 days ago:
At no point does the question say that the pizzas are the same diameter.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Can’t sell my data if I’ve never given them any
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
Because of the networking effect, people don’t leave.
Federation is strong specifically because of how it gets around the networking effect. You don’t need a .world account to see content from it. That doesn’t apply for Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube without shenanigans.
This notion that everyone’s just going to pick up and leave Lemmy
You don’t need to leave lemmy. It takes 10 minutes to set up a new account somewhere else, with zero downsides.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
Even Lemmy isn’t magically immune. If the admins of .world got handed checks for a couple million dollars in exchange for the rights to operate the servers, what would discourage them from cashing out?
Nothing, but it would be far less disastrous than say some billionaire buying the town square of the internet.
Because it’s federated, everyone can just leave. There is nothing stopping people from ditching .world and moving on.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
It is open source. But from what I can tell the accounts are still hosted centrally, and it isnt federated in any way, which isn’t great.
Still a step up from Discord though.
- Comment on Discord unveils Discord Orbs, a new in-app currency that users can earn by completing Quests, which reward participants who interact with ads 1 week ago:
Same. I just hope my friend group and by some extension the gaming community chooses something that won’t fall into the same pitfal of closed source for profit organizations.
I hope the transition is towards matrix or something like it.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 1 week ago:
Kubernetes sounds like an awfuly strange strain of weed.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Got any recommendations for where to find said APKs?
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
Tbh this one is a pretty easy one to undo at least. Just give them stupid OP magic items and have the BBEG wonder into camp unarmed.
So this one esentially boils down to “you only play once and your friends are pissed”
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
Had this happen with one dude in college. I had no clue why he joined at all. He spent every session on his phone held 6 inches from his face, and always had to be told when it was his turn in combat, just for him to have no clue who to attack.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
That seems oddly specific and personal.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
The side effect is intended to be bad.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
There sure is a lot of “you poop yourself every time you use it” type responses here.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
If your already on your deathbed, it would be a painful way to die, but you’d at least get an amazing view for a few seconds.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
Chance of an advanced race of friendly aliens settling on Mars: 0.0000000000000N% => 100%
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
Depending on how controlled the flight is, you could just flight 5mm off the ground and just look like you’re walking normally.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
The ability to get my DnD group to have a sensible, routine schedule.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 weeks ago:
They said control. They didn’t say they’d use it to directly cause people to shit. As written, they could control their GI such that the direction is reversed.
They could cause people to throw up feces.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
I never suggested otherwise. However capitalism’s core motivator is exploitation.
It is in no way wrong to suggest we move away from such a model, or criticize such a model.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
It also allows the game to revive itself. Those 40 players playing pirated WoW could introduce more people to the game. And at the very least, it allows it be run in the future if ever historians should need access.
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 2 weeks ago:
Given the username I’d guess not. Good username btw
- Comment on >:)> 2 weeks ago:
Predator goat species any% speedrun when
- Comment on For the little guys. 2 weeks ago:
I’d imagine for most creatures the food chain collapse part is a relevant reason.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 2 weeks ago:
It’s a capitalism thing.
Extract as much value as possible. Deliver as little value to your customers as possible. Treat them as second layer of product.
Human needs are not the goal.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 2 weeks ago:
Right it can totally do that safely and axcurately despite not being able to count the Rs in strawberry.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
Congrats, we have a glorified FPTP and spoiler effect yet again!
Not quite. As you’ve just observed, this kind of strategic voting is risky, and self destructive. Which means that many would recognize this, and not use this voting strategy. Its a game of chicken, and lots of people prefer not to play such a game and instead support the safe bet, which means supporting those you genuinely support.
And as !ammonium@lemmy.world pointed out, it isn’t possible to have a perfect voting system.
Then there is the fact that there is more to this than just voting strategies. There are the other effects to keep in mind. For example approval is far simpler to explain than RCV, especially when you explain how the counting works.
Another example is that approval is purely an additive process for counting, RCV is not. That means auditing results is significantly easier and quicker under approval than RCV. That leads to higher voter confidence in results than RCV audits.
Now, other election systems could also have strategic voting, but its less likely with, for example, RCV, since you can rank candidates.
RCV still can experience the spoiler effect just as FPTP, because it is in effect FPTP taking place over some number of instant rounds.
- Comment on YSK that in 16 States in the USA has banned Ranked-Choice voting, including 5 that has just banned it in 2025, and 6 of those bans happened in 2024. 2 weeks ago:
Approval and STAR are better anyway. Not that they wouldn’t find a piss poor excuse to ban those as well.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 weeks ago:
Yes and no. In an ideal situation, those are smooth surfaces and it isn’t a problem. There are situations were they can be bunched up and not as smooth of course, but that’s at least for me less of an occurrence than with clothes.
- Comment on 7 for me 3 weeks ago:
20
If anything is touching me in even a slightly wrong way (which clothes usually do), I can’t sleep.