ech
@ech@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 2 days ago:
I’m unsure if you’re speaking as a previous admin or just as a user, but if the latter, would it not have been easier to just block the user directly?
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 days ago:
…wut? The refrigerator has a gaming mode??
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
Based on what?
You’re actively arguing for vote manipulation on the part of moderators.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
It’s also blatant vote manipulation in keeping their personal content from being lower on the front page. Ban all the downvoters and suddenly your posts look very popular!
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
I’m not talking about blocking users from seeing votes - the nature of federation requires, at the very least, that admins are able to see the data flowing into their instance, which includes voting records. From that point, all it takes at that point is a purpose-made instance to be spun up that will catalogue all the votes that it federates with and publish them. In fact I’m pretty sure this already exists.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
That’s not “not sharing an interest”. That’s being actively antagonistic and arguably harmful to the community. For at-risk communities, that’s a hard line to parse sometimes and it’s understandable for moderators to be less lenient in their decisions. A community about a money sink by the world’s richest idiot doesn’t really have the same concerns.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
Votes on sites like this are an algorithm by way of the masses, rather than what you’d find on centralized sites like yt or the like. It’s how the front page gets curated to presumably interesting posts instead of being a random spew of every post made.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
There’s not really a way to do votes privately on a federated system. Unless you’re suggesting no votes at all, which could be interesting, but I’m not able to envision a functional way to do that.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 6 days ago:
Do you really expect the platform that lets anybody form their personal power tripping fiefdom to inexplicably not draw those people in? No centralization doesn’t mean you’re free of the particular flavor of power tripping you experienced, it means there are many cells of various levels of power tripping with little to no oversight.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
That certainly was the intent. I just hated it. It felt like every run was doomed from the start until I managed to get through the seemingly endless number of runs that would be needed to suss out not just what every item did, but how they interacted. There were parts I really liked, but I kept putting it down because it just wasn’t fun. Once that daunting requirement was removed, I had a blast and played it a ton. I haven’t gone back to it in a long time and it still remains one of my most played games on Steam.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 1 week ago:
It is incredibly rare to see an Album anymore because people don’t listen to music as albums.
…what? This claim is so incredibly wrong, it slants your entire comment. Artists as small as you can get to those as big as Swift are still releasing albums. Just because you don’t interact with them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I strugglebused on BoI for a while, trying to force myself to experience it the “right” way and just hating it the whole time. Legitimately thought I didn’t like the game for a long time. Then I finally gave in and just looked up the items as I found them and that made it so much better. I played enough to get every ending, and I stopped worrying about “ruining” games by looking things up after that. Baring legit spoilers, I look up everything now. Turns out that knowing how the game functions is pretty important for enjoying it. Glad they finally got around to addressing that.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 weeks ago:
From what I can find, BC takes 15% for most sales, 10% for high-sellers. Dunno if that’s good or bad, but it seems low to me.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 2 weeks ago:
Friendly alert that it’s currently Bandcamp Friday - one full day that the site gives 100% of purchases to the artists. It’s a good way to support small artists and build up a personal collection.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yeah, I totally misread those screenshots. My mistake. Still not good, though. I take back that YDI, but yeah, not surprised they’re getting ghosted after all that.
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 3 weeks ago:
What second coming? Terraria still has another update in the pipe.
- Comment on Left-handed sep funnel anyone? 3 weeks ago:
I know nothing about manufacturing, but I wonder if/how it’s cheaper to do this rather than just printing on both sides.
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on (Rant) Don't buy Rockstar games. 3 weeks ago:
Lol, YDI. When asked to provide the identifiable information, you just say “Stop and do the thing I want.” You seriously expect them to just hand over an account to someone who can’t provide basic information about it? You owned yourself, pal.
- Comment on Video game addiction in teens likely stems from preexisting mental health issues 3 weeks ago:
No shit.
- Comment on Sadly this was build to late to have been part of Nasa's Satellite Automatic Tracking Antenna Network (SATAN) 3 weeks ago:
That’s one seriously selective initialism, hah.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
Ah, I see. I was for some reason only assuming portable use. Hope it’s working well for you!
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
I gotta ask - why not just play the music on your phone?
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 3 weeks ago:
I’m in the same boat. I only ever used the site as an easy, hassle-free image host. When they steadily increased the hassle and included more and more ads, I stopped using it in the end. No clue that it turned into it’s own social media site, or how that even happened.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
Not unless you keep up with migrating your files. Drives fail over time.
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 4 weeks ago:
It’s “hypotheses” btw.
- Comment on Protester arrested over ‘Plasticine Action’ T-shirt: ‘How ridiculous is this?’ 4 weeks ago:
Yes, appropriating a call to end a genocide to protest generated content is pretty ridiculous. Cruel, even. And complaining when your appropriated symbol is mistaken for the original is asinine.
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 5 weeks ago:
I mean, red and blue are 2 of the 3 primary colors in pigments, so that probably has something to do with it. Why yellow missed out, I have no idea.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 5 weeks ago:
Missing the point and the problem evident in the story.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 5 weeks ago:
FB employs humans to catfish users?