Auster

@Auster@thebrainbin.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mirror Instance for Interactable Archiving⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Kbin.Social (rip) and Lemm.ee (rip #2) posts still appear on Lemmy.World. Also pondercat (rip #3) was a bot-only instance (in its case, for tracking RSS feeds). So all in all, I think it's fairly possible, with only minor (?) issues being in the way, like mirroring external content that would be loaded seemlessly (e.g. Imgur on Lemmy and Peertube on Mastodon) and storage and processing power for tracking the instances.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  On the first point, propagation happens passively too. For example, if someone follows me on Mastodon, this reply will be pulled to his/her feed as a microblogging post, and will be discoverable on any feeds my account later appears. I remember also testing around between Lemmy and Mbin how liking/upvoting works, and doing that on Lemmy while the Mbin account followed it also showed posts previously not on my Mbin instance.

  Similarly, Mbin (and dunno about Lemmy but I'd imagine it's the same) pulls Peertube channels as magazines/communities, and iirc Peertube channels can also be followed as users on microblogging platforms, and in both cases their video uploads automatically appear on the respective text feeds.

  And about the second point, I agree, but that's also why I suggest recommending major platforms. For example, Lemmy.World and Mastodon.Social are likely to have far more publications being posted on or propagated to than Mbin or PieFed instances, since the former two are around for much longer, and not actively trying to be toxic (at least from what I can observe).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution?⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I think it would only work out if the programmer tries to reconstruct posts from different formats in a format that works out for each. Otherwise it becomes what it already is, a glorified browser with multiple profiles enabled, and with over-preference for a type of engine.

  My opinion is, take note of the major platforms for each engine and/or experience, and recommend them based on your friends' tastes.

  The rest, centralization, would be replaced by what I call propagation (iirc people call it "to federated"?), which people directly and indirectly do, like boosting posts (Mbin / microblogging stuff) and commenting so people following the user see the original post too, following people and following Peertube channels on Peertube and the "threadiverse" so one's account is a bridge for propagation, up/downvoting, etc. And as this web of social medias grows, tendency is that it keeps growing exponentially until either it takes over like email, or stagnates.

  This logic, I think, is similar to recommending Linux Mint or immutable distros to Linux novices, the "safe bet" for them before they get used to the technical side or while Linux wouldn't (past tense) become accessible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mass migration to Piefed for various history and meme subs!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Unsure what had happened in another post and poked in my instance's main(?)/meta(?) community (!askthebrainbin), but after a short back and forth, and seeing the behavior repeat here as well, I think the owner's assumption is correct, the first of each pair of community links here is actually a hyperlink manually created, while the seconds are proper sharable communities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I have this corner in my basement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  First thing I'd think to do in such a corner is also a thin and tall cabinet/chest/other storage unit. Unsure if brooms would be good there as they may carry dirt/dust around and seem to be close to a few storage places as well as the sink itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most Effective way to search the Threadiverse?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I'd try finding a community to where I'd like to post a given article, and look for its posts in the OG instance as well as in instances I have accounts on for other engines (the 3 major thread-oriented ones I know about are Lemmy, Mbin and PieFed). Other than that, of retarded/delayed results but still something I'd recommend, is to follow people in other instances (Mbin / microblogging / Peertube thing), and interact with everything the user finds so posts can propagate across instances, so at least in future searches, others, or even yourself, may find/refind posts more easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best Co-Op Games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Neo Geo Metal Slug games were extremely fun to play side by side with a friend. Just note Metal Slug 2 has lag problems due to the engine used, but it was later ported to MS3's engine as Metal Slug X.

  Also, most versions of the games on PC come with the ROMs, if you'd rather use your own emulator.

  Another set of games we also enjoyed a lot were the River City Girls games. Just had to use health cheats on the SNES game repurposed because it was getting too hard for the time we had. "<.<

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  About tinkering, if you'd be interested at some point in the future, maybe also test something like a more general Linux system with either Kodi or RetroPie? Also maybe, if you have the money, to throw in a Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 as the hardware? Think it'd give a nice console-like device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe have an account on a service that allows boosts, and follow it with your Pixelfed account? When you boost a post, it should get synchronized with every instance that follows your account (least that's what I do between Mbin, Lemmy, Mastodon and Peertube).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favourite and go-to gaming websites?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As I like to source my own ROMs, those 4 tend to be my primary places to look:

  • https://www.gog.com/forum/general/roms_obtainable_on_gog_compendium/page1

  • https://itch.io/games/ (can filter by platform-specific tags for the homebrew ROMs)

  • https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/10918/where-to-legally-acquire-content-to-play-on-retropie/1?lang=en-US

  • https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki/

  Also other places, but most way smaller and mainly found through the 4 above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something pretty simple but that I think works very well, at the end credits, at the very end, when there's something in the lines of "...and a special thanks, To You".

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another point, if protecting children online is indeed a legitimate argument, and not an scapegoat to make passing the law easier, shouldn't be the parents to decide what the children see online?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft: Microtransactions make games more fun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when you could play to customize characters? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

  And regarding taking less time to progress, borrowing from South Park's "freemium" explanation, maybe making the gameplay loop a bit more than just barely fun would avoid the player's need for the game to hurry up? And if it involves gambling, it's a whole other can of worms.

  Sounds like gaslighting to investors that start hearing about the subject.

• Instances for Portuguese and / or Italian speakers?
  Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨9⁩ ⁨comments⁩
• Some "quasi features" for Mbin through Ublock Origin filters
  Submitted ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ to ⁨fediverse@lemmy.world⁩ | ⁨2⁩ ⁨comments⁩