Die4Ever
@Die4Ever@programming.dev
Developer of Deus Ex Randomizer, StarCraft 2 Randomizer, RollerCoaster Tycoon Randomizer, Build Engine Randomizer, and Groovie 2 in ScummVM
- Comment on Is there a Lemmy equivalent of "r/bestofredditorupdates"? 22 hours ago:
IDK, people will probably eventually leave Reddit, as they left Digg and Myspace and many others. Where would they go aside from the Fediverse? Almost all new alternatives being built are using the Fediverse, and it’s the only way to get more than 1000 users currently.
- Comment on What if we called instances providers? 1 day ago:
usually when I tell someone what an instance is, I throw a few synonyms in there
I feel like just saying “instance/proxy” can help, providers sounds good too, also gateways, servers, relays…
I made an old discussion about this actually
- Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions 2 days ago:
well I was speaking in theory, of course this stuff can be abused
but imagine if they actually only used it for illegal content, like the really bad stuff
- Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions 2 days ago:
interesting idea actually, strengthening the crowd sourced filtering
but downvotes don’t delete posts, so you still need a real moderator
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Also hashtags don’t help federation at all, groups/communities will “boost” the post so it federates to all the followers
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 1 week ago:
Have you tried Deus Ex Randomizer? We have an unusually high number of Steam Deck players
- Comment on Just started playing Life is Strange 2 weeks ago:
After that play the prequel, Before the Storm
- Comment on I created an instance for a specific community 2 weeks ago:
if an instance has no users and only communities, then it’s less likely to be defederated by anyone, and easier to manage
I do the same thing (also because I don’t want to pay for tons of storage space lol) lemmy.mods4ever.com/communities
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 2 weeks ago:
It’s way easier to notice and defed when you can see these fake usernames
- Comment on The First Generation! 2 weeks ago:
I used to have this clipart program lol
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think Lemmy has it (there is an open issue for invitation links that I don’t believe anyone has worked on).
github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1777
but admins can do it in the signup application questionnaire and just keep track with a spreadsheet
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Do Lemmy, Mastodon and the other big fediverse projects already support invite-based registration using codes?
you could just put the invite code into the signup application questionnaire, a server admin can make it say “Invite code here:”
the admins could keep a spreadsheet of the invite codes like in Google Sheets, keep track of who was given the invite code and who received it
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I think when you give the invite don’t say “Lemmy” just say the name of the server
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nobody is going to wait for an invite when they can just join any server.
well if they look hard enough to realize this then that’s a good thing, so I think it works out
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
SA1 is still my favorite in the series
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 3 weeks ago:
I guess Sonic Adventure 1 has a little bit of this, with the hub worlds. New abilities can allow you to reach new places in the hub worlds
- Comment on Lemmy.sdf.org is down for the count 3 weeks ago:
I think that was more because of Hexbear going down?
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
The only thing is the community search that is a bit cumbersome, but this is due to federation, and understood.
This would help github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2951
- Comment on Be the change you want to see in Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
One of the nicest things about these communities is how easy it is to have good conversations with internet strangers.
Maybe at that point people would use the Local feed more when they want to interact with their neighbors?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Right, but that’s the issue. It can give them an extremist instance
Yeah but that’s just join-lemmy, someone could make their own website that doesn’t have this issue, even without overloading the user with info. It should only show instances that are middle of the road general instances.
- Comment on Looks like Lemmy is climbing up to the 2023 exodus days numbers again 3 weeks ago:
I just want to point out that Kbin is no longer being worked on and Mbin forked from it and the work is continuing there under that name. The major instances switched over a while ago.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
could you give me an example of which community doesn’t work?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
sorry I totally misread that as defederated lol
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
These things don’t affect the average user (lurker) much at all. Ideally you just start with whatever instance and only move if you don’t like it. A new user can’t really know if an instance is bad or not before trying it.
(As long as there recommendation page doesn’t give them an extremist instance)
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Have you tried blocking some communities?
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
The one I suggest the most lately is discuss.online
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
If that’s true then the problem will solve itself when Mbin or PieFed overtakes Lemmy. The content will be there anyways, we just need to see who brings the best UX/UI
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Would I be decreasing people’s operating costs if I just opened an account on example.lol so most of my interaction was on my home instance?
Likely no. If one person on the instance is subscribed to a remote community, everything is synchronized anyways. If no one is subscribed to the remote community then it’s probably a very small and low activity community anyways, which means it’s a drop in the bucket difference.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
And on manual validation for sign-ups
permissions/roles could improve this a lot github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3375#issuecommen…
Give thumbs up reactions on Github so the devs know what to prioritize