Auster
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I still prefer *bin over Lemmy for the UI and the domain-blocking feature, even with Lemmy having post-hiding features. 🙂
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 4 days ago:
Haven't checked the news itself, but been following the hardware surveys from Valve for some years now, and on average, Linux is on a slow but constant growth. Also, been checking US's official analytics site every now and then for some months now, and there, Linux oscilates between 3 and 6% of users per system.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 days ago:
Final Fantasy XII is pretty high up there for me.
Bestiary entries are vast, almost a book in game format, and most add to lot of worldbuilding even if not needed for the main plot itself.
Also bosses, sidequests, enviromental cues seldom aren't at least hinted by a few NPCs often dozens of hours before they're relevant.
Overall details are often explained when you look in the right corners of the game. Even some weird weather cycles seem to have some logic applied. And in a single case, it felt inspired by a real-world element, one even Mad Max 4 used a cut in the beginning.
And I wonder if the sky-gazing kid in one of the airships that says she saw something in the sky was referring to Deathgaze or the continent from Revenant Wings....
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 4 days ago:
One detail that held to me the strongest is the characters' talking patterns. It feels like dialogues were written in another language and then converted to English. The strongest example I think was the lady that gives the Knight flowers for delivering, which also is added to, iirc, being at least implied she is one of the oldest creatures in Hallownest.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
When I think a regional community could be good:
If the user doesn't speak English, or if neither the one recommending nor the one interested know what the latter wants.
And in the second case, a generalist instance like Lemmy.World or Mastodon.Social could be a good pick too.
- Comment on Recommend that new users join geographically local instances 6 days ago:
If the user likes none of the regional instances he/she knows of, should the user recommend things he/she doesn't like?
Similarly, some instances have more clear-cut niches. If the user finds such an instance to be a good recommendation to someone interested in the fediverse, should he/she avoid it if it's too far physically from the interested user?
- Comment on How can i legally buy a game for a child? 1 week ago:
Iirc, GOG staffers consider ok to let people from a same household to use an user's games. But you can confirm that in their official channels, and as you already have an account on GOG by the way you wrote, you can post and comment in their forums too, where staffers often lurk.
- Submitted 1 week ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on Missed opportunity for Oneshot to come to GOG? 1 week ago:
If just for the sake of having it DRM free, if/while GOG doesn't pick it, it's on Itchio too
- Comment on Looking for bot-friendly Lemmy instances/communities for RSS reposting 1 week ago:
Strays a bit from what you asked so ignored if not welcomed, but in case it helps, or in case there's a way to have microblogging posts appear on Lemmy:
Sending RSS feeds to bots such as @birb or @owner should give a bot profile to follow a given feed's updates. And both should be usable from pretty much any Mastodon instances, making the potential usable instances much broader. Two small things to note however, first the Studio Rafflesia's bot's usage rules are in Japanese so potential language barrier there, and second and confirmed by the author, sending a feed to RSS Parrot through Mbin doesn't work.
Other than that, and in line with the question, I second !meta.
- Comment on Can anybody anywhere in the world 🌍 create a website like lemmy and Mastodon with possibility of creating multiple instances and feed it into the fediverse so that it gets shared into both lemmy and? 1 week ago:
Lemmy.World federates to potentially any platforms as long as they also use ActivityPub and are not defederated/defederating. However, compatibility may vary, and some rather sporadic cases from some tests I did outright wouldn't work.
And to my knowledge, it's not possible to connect accounts for them to behave like one. What is is having your accounts in different services follow each other.
Mbin, Peertube, Misskey and Mastodon allow that from my experience. I would presume other microblogging and video platfroms allow that too, though still have to test them.
And just in case, to clarify, Mbin (software) tries to act as a mix of threads (like Reddit) and microblogging (like Twitter and Facebook). The/Brain/Bin (my main instance) runs on Mbin software. Lemmy is focused as a threads platform, but you can't follow users directly there.
- Comment on Streaming large library of vintage gaming content 2 weeks ago:
About the edit at the bottom, unsure what you tried, but on Lemmy instances when creating posts, I'd presume you'd need to add the link in the URL feed, and the image in the Image field.
- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
That's something that's been bothering me on the microblogging side of Mbin too, how replies to posts are presented. There, all replies appear on the feed, and they're also on a parallel code block to the post, so even browser scripts or filters have trouble picking them.
Your comment gives me some ideas, so will be poking on the Mbin issues tracker later. Thanks! ^_^
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances 3 weeks ago:
Been noticing that for quite a while now, each platform has their own cultures, even when there can be exchange between two or more. If an instance blocks another, I'd imagine it's due to differences in such cultures.
As an user for some 2 years now, I get an idea of the communities I'd rather avoid, but other than the most extreme examples, haven't seen much openly discussed about specific instances.
Now, I wouldn't worry about what people from instances x, y or z think if I were you. If you like how your chosen instance is, and people from other instances organize to hunt you down, seek your instance's support if needed, or simply block each and every one pestering you.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
We are? 🙃
Plot makes such a big deal out of Tartarus, battles are so hard and characters get tired so quickly (FES player here) that I get the impression multiple visits are required. Given that and finding amusing to do so, as well as liking the game's social sim side, I'd usually beat each new block in a single in-game day, at most two if Elizabeth gave any new missions.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 3 weeks ago:
Persona 3 FES, rush each block of Tartarus, then hyperfocus on the social sim side of the game for the next in-game month. Rinse and repeat.
Final Fantasy XII, go out of my way to powerlevel, but then mix up multiple powerleveling methods in one. Also spending an excessive amount of time reading the in-game lore and accidentally triggering the eternal delay glitch in the game by trying an unrelated cheese against a superboss.
- Comment on A fediverse platform that lets you block whole topics, not just communities? 5 weeks ago:
That would be easier implemented with microblogging tagging, and the only thread-based platform that uses tags is Mbin afaik. However, even in it you can't still block tags. Maybe poke the devs of Mbin to implement it?
- Comment on Fediverse Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
Also Mbin mentioned in other comments for both Reddit and Twitter-inspired experiences
Also maybe worth noting there's some degree of interoperability between instances? Like Misskey often displaying full text bodies from posts from threads-types of sites, Mastodon running Peertube videos as attached videos, and Mbin, Misskey and Mastodon users being able to follow users on pretty much any instances, and Lemmy and Mbin (and probably Piefed though still to confirm) being able to follow Peertube channels as communities.
- Comment on Fediverse Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
Plume for blogs, NodeBB for databases and Pleroma and Misskey also for Twitter, I think
- Comment on Did something change recently with how Mastodon displays content from Lemmy / the threadiverse? 5 weeks ago:
Linked Mastodon posts redirect back to lemmy.ca son can't check, but going by the intro, it's something I've been noticing, when I boost a post on Mbin, Mastodon displays as you described, at most including the image as attachment, and that despite of the original post's instance.
However, maybe something like what Misskey instances do would be a good solution? For example:
https://nijimiss.moe/notes/01K5T7RE2G147ZRBSZ4GDHS3NR
(For https://thebrainbin.org/m/auster_info_dumps/t/1095421)
(Just don't like the links appearing again as attachments at the bottom) - Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 1 month ago:
I see. If using either options then, emulator or VM, also maybe look at ways of auto-mounting optical media's ISO images. Saves some of the trouble, as games from that time often require the media to be mounted while playing.
And if the disks you talk about are diskettes, you'll probably need an adapter to back up the files or disk image. Else, if it's an optical media, have yet to see a reader not capable of dumping the disc.
- Comment on Setting up a DOS/Win98 system for gaming 1 month ago:
Personally, I think VMs would be more portable, but by a very small distance. At most how the machine is started and some compatibilities change.
And about the games listed, some of those have source ports for newer systems, so I ask, does your friend want to run through an old system, or simply play those older games? If the latter, then maybe a VM or emulator wouldn't be needed.
- Comment on Community Discoverability Inconsistencies 1 month ago:
Not very familiar with PieFed, but from my experience on Mbin and Lemmy, communities only exist for another instance if either someone already follows it, someone click on a ! link to a community and follows it, the link of a post from a given community is searched in the instance's search field, someone comments or up/downvotes on a post, or, microblogging/Mbin-specific, someone boosts a post and is followed by someone from another instance. However, neither are fail-proof from what I tested, and from the little I used PieFed, it seems a bit more bureaucratic to find external stuff, which added to being the newer of the thread-type site engines, might make it a bit slower to find stuff initially.
Though, on this last part, similar to what I observe in Mbin, propagation is exponential, so at some point having to manually track stuff should become just a memory.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Heard an expression for storytelling once in Portuguese once that kinda translates to "street fight" - when the story writer doesn't know how to proceed so he throws whatever. Kinda like deus ex machina trope, but more chaotic. Shippuden, the further it went, the more it gave me that impression. And I'm not watching/reading Boruto, the movie from right after Shippuden was already bad enough.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
I see. Sorry for jumping the gun.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
The problem of reporting specific cases is that it could become cancel culture all over again. First option, I think, would be to try to correct issues in the article. Then, if they denied, then start suspecting of tue site itself. And if already suspecting, it adds up to its untrustworthiness.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
Skimmed through the article and something picked my attention, the numbers given in the "325000 posts analyzed". The way its given, it makes seem like big numbers, but if you calculate what is the percentage of the numbers given, it's less than 1%. Can't check the linked source, but it seems like a classical "lying with statistics".
And besides, text seems written in a way to give the impression site moderation for smaller sites is too stupid to block bad actors, and that only the paternalism of bigger sites can solve this implied issue.
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 month ago:
Dunno how it is through Retroarch, but what I used was a separated program, Lime3DS ("Azahar" now? Got the APK in the short window it was named that)
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 month ago:
If not, only other system I'm familiar with for emulation is the PS Vita, but given being from the same generation as the 3DS, the most it can run is Saturn, PS1 and some PC games through source ports (and heavy graphical downgrades when needed).
- Comment on What first emulation handheld would you recommend? 1 month ago:
Would phones count? I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro, and it's surprisingly powerful for its release year. Can even tackle some PS2 games through AetherSX2. Also works with 3DS emulation, at least from what I tested of Bravely Second.