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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7's next update will make food actually worth investing in and let you play forever, if you've got that long⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my god my friends and I were PISSED. The game just ended! You made it through the third age! Congrats! Game ends. We were just entering into a major war and had a strategy planned out, we were moving troops then it was just over.

  No more one more turn, no more alternate victory conditions, just done. Very unsatisfying end, and that was about 4 days of play to get there. Really soured us all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games are reportedly Switch 1 carts with codes in the box⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s my point, that they’ve built such a easy to use trustworthy store that everyone just buys it because what’s the point of stealing anything from them. Vs Nintendo when that’s the first thing people start working on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Physical Nintendo Switch 2 Edition games are reportedly Switch 1 carts with codes in the box⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they’re all shocked Pikachu that people are so determined to emulate them. You know what games aren’t being jailbroken en masse right now? Steam games. Because the store has been trustworthy since day one. They may break that trust but it hasn’t happened yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FediAI - Demo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI would be a thing for things like translations, I would not want it to be messages or replies, I would want it to be part of the UI and labeled as AI content. Otherwise it’s noise and slop in my opinion.

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

  Hashtags aren’t discoverable though, server A still needs to subscribe to at least one user from server B before hash tags will start

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup compose and env files⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Docker compose in git. Env in 1password or whatever password manager you use. Most support uploading a raw file.

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

  Very very unfortunately, Pixelfed doesn’t have a way to just start exploring feeds without knowing exactly who to look at. This has been a very longstanding problem with the platform that the engineer has pretty much outright refused to do. Pixelfed-Glitch is attempting to add in better discovery options, but for now it’s a non-starter for me. I turned off my pixelfed server because of the lack of discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I completely agree but last time I said that people flamed me over it. If it was still 2013 then I’d look more into it, but today it’s such a monolithic architecture

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Luna and Electronic Arts sign a multi-year deal, as Luna expands into more countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I say good tbh. There’s a lot of people who can’t afford big gaming rigs and cloud gaming closes that gap. As long as I get to still play the way I always have them in happy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A great example is his handling of Laravel, scaling, and Docker. It’s pretty clear that he doesn’t have a huge understanding of Docker - or at least hasn’t managed docker images at scale. A huge thing there that I ran into constantly is that the Pixelfed containers both are 1) Stateful and worse than that 2) depend on each other’s volumes. This means that the Pixelfed containers must share the same host as it’s workers. He put a lot of time and effort into building scripts that would simplify the setup for a docker compose file, but never thought horizontally - scaling these containers out on a cluster or separating workers off away from the web-api nodes at all.

  I spent 3 weeks trying to de-tangle that all and got nowhere. I’ve been watching the guys over at glitch-fed ( a fork of pixelfed ), and from what I see they’re trying to do the same thing. I wish them godspeed. Until then, I can’t recommend Pixelfed as it just can’t horizontally scale. Sure you can throw a more expensive machine at the problem, but that’s not a fix.

  As for the last, I don’t have any examples - and I think that’s because no one else has gone on a press junket like he has. The owners of Mastodon started a foundation a while back, I think that’s the most official news I’ve heard out of them. I think that’s what bothered me - for the vast majority of people that was their first chance to hear about the open web. Instead of saying “We have a thing called the fediverse. I’ll spare you the details but you can choose Pixelfed, Mastodon, even Wordpress or many others, and they all work together”. Instead all I heard anywhere was Pixelfed. Feel free to call BS there, maybe he did somewhere and I just missed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fediverse has a bullying problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you’re both wrong. Here me out.

  As other commenters have said, there should never be any expectation of privacy on the fediverse. DMs here and private items are not actually private, they’re quite literally blasted out to anyone who listens. I feel like I have to say that a lot. I actually like how Lemmy handles it, it warns you that it’s unencrypted and that it recommends Matrix (and you can put your matrix handle on your profile).

  However. I’m also disillusioned by Dansup. He made a great project with Pixelfed. It got off the ground and has a great following. However, I’ve read through the code, I’ve tried to spin it up, hell even tried to help contribute - but it’s a spaghetti’d mess of unmaintainable code. What irks me is rather than dive in and fix the code, help those who honestly want to spin up his projects, he starts a completely separate project (off the same spaghetti’d base that barely scales), and goes on a whole PR junket talking about it. Then when I see people asking questions of his code or how to do things he usually jumps down their throats - or completely ignores them.

  And honestly the biggest thing that irked me was that I didn’t feel he gave credit to the hundreds - thousands of other people who work to make the fediverse work. Pixelfed is a great experience - but it’s one of many all working together, and the developers are a huge chunk, but you have the infrastructure, us admins hosting, those out there vocalizing it, those trying to start communities, it’s an ecosystem, and I just felt like he ignored the fediverse and instead pushed Pixelfed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ISO Selfhost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you’re right here.

  Thank you I thought I was going insane. It’s not Reddit levels of activity, but I’d say this is pretty dang active. Stats on the right show almost 600 users a day, ~7k a month, almost 100k comments…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 245 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was amazing storytelling. It was never about saint Denis, or the heists, it was about the little things you overheard in camp, the gang itself. Truly a amasterpiece

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CVE-2025-1974: vulnerabilities that could make it easy for attackers to take over your Kubernetes cluster⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Great callout, thanks for posting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Miceosoft!? Create original IP? Agreed they’ll keep regurgitating their IP no matter how many lame halos it makes.

  Hell not even dos was theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’d be a LOT of constant wireshark and reverse engineering to figure out every API it calls. Then probably something in the middle to sit on the host, need to figure out https certs since you’d be spoofing the host, and of course making sure you get the responses absolutely correct.

  Not impossible, but it’s not trivial anymore either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed Shadows Drops To 40 FPS At 720P On The Next-Gen Nvidia RTX 5070Ti⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m usually pretty cautious on stuff like this, I’m in the minority that says the newest games done need to get 60fps ultra on the newest GPUs, that it’s okay if you can get medium. Gives games room to future proof themselves.

  But this is bad. A mid tier brand new GPU can’t play your game more than 720p 35fps? That’s laughably bad. I’ll wait to get some other reviews before I judge completely, but that’s just utterly unacceptable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Appropriate settings for a private matrix server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of these are possible and very configurable. I chose synapse for my home server and it’s set up like this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan's prime minister is mad about Assassin's Creed Shadows where players can destroy the contents of religious sites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But they care so much about history there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Handheld: Rumors And Release Date Possibilities Explained⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re years behind and they have a half baked idea. Of course they’re going to come out with one!

  They also have piles of metrics saying it’s going to become the dominant in the market, that it’s way better than the competitors, and that the Xbox interface will be loved by all.

  And then it’ll come out, be mediocre at best, and silently dropped in 3 years.

  It’s Microsoft. I’ve seen this one before

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 245 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  RDR2 is one of the best story games ever. It’s one of probably 3 or 4 I would call masterpiece, and it legit made me cry. I connected with the characters, I felt the pain of the gang falling apart, I felt fear and pity for dutch, it was just amazing. RDR2 is one of those few games where you can say "sure, it has amazing gameplay, the side games are fun, and it plays great, but I don’t play it because it’s one of the most fun games to play, I play for the story "

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted SSO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted SSO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried and failed a couple of times, would you mind sharing (or dming) your example config? Maybe I’m just a been with sso and can’t figure it out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend Is Spreading⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legends say she was the first person on the fediverse

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legend Is Spreading⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She really wants to make friends!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which co-op first person shooters would you recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh gears, amazing co-op! Great cover system and a chainsaw on a gun. Phenomenal!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Truly just the brute force solution. Need a shitload of compute? GPUs can do it! No one stops to think if we really need it. It’s all about coulda, not shoulda. Yeah, ML and AI has a place, but big tech just thinks “slap an LLM everywhere”. Just such horseshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All of their moves were very much “okay on the surface this seems normal, but what are you actually trying to do”. Then you start seeing what you are pointing out. Who decides what is violent? When does it expand past violent?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Respawn Entertainment Just Killed Their Unannounced Incubation Team Project⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why be interested in anything that any game company announced? They can just kill it tomorrow. Talk about burning bridges

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why AC Syndicate Is So Bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, I do dislike when gamers just unilaterally say “this game is bad”, because it’s such an opinion. Is it bad, or do you just not like it? Maybe other people do like it