“And fuck power levels”

Reddit trying so hard to shoot itself in the

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Look, in their defence, they’re wasted too

So, when you post to a community, you’re posting to the local copy of it. Your host then forwards that post to the site that houses the community. When you’re banned from a remote site, nothing interferes with this process until the local host forwards things along. By that time, you’ve already posted.

Now, the site that’s housing the community is responsible for federating content it receives back out again, so while you can continue to post to the community locally, those posts won’t make it to any other copy of the community. But because each instance’s copy of the community is quasi-independent from each other, you can, IIRC, still engage with other local users in that space.

Most wealthy western countries so fully embraced neoliberalism that opposing private enterprise seems impossible. Even private enterprise owned by people who have embedded themselves within other countries’ governments (maybe even especcially so, since public representatives very often have private business interests, and they wouldn’t want those interests harmed for their activity as a politician). Eapecially private enterprise that is popular, and despite our online bubbles, Twitter remains popular, even as users clutch their pearls each time they log in.

Actions would be much more likely once the shift to bluesky is much more complete, but with Musk at least nominally set to be exiting his direct association with the administration, he will be regaining his plausible deniability.

I also (don’t lynch me) think that combat should be an RP experience. That could be my love for certain systems where you get bonuses for good, accurate descriptions and not simply, “I roll. I hit. I do X damage.”

Combat should be a RP experience regardless of system. What you’re describing is one where proactive roleplay is a mechanical system, and I’ll be honest, as someone who’s never entertained a career in the theatre, or as a pompous grim fiction writer with too many thesauruses lying around, fuck that god awful fucking noise. But the choice of what to do, and how you react after the roll should be informed by the fiction of the game and the fiction of the combat, and that is roleplay.

The fact that much of the discourse around the games and resources available to players is focused on min/maxing number munchers is a social problem, not a system one.

Reddit would refuse to accept (error out) or act like it accepted and then just outright delete my comments

Oh, this is pretty standard behaviour on the site in general these days. It’s just a broken mess made by an incompetent company. Their front-end regularly silently disconnects from their backend all of the damn time.

For the most part it’s not censorship, it’s just a badly broken website that doesn’t give a shit about its users’ experience, because it doesn’t see anything else as real competition.

Yeah. Bluesky works way more like how people seem to imagine the fediverse does, with PDSes being glorified dumb terminals accessing a (functionally, if not forever technically) centealized pool of content. Hosting a PDS is just shouldering some of the cost of BS’s last mile.

Oh dear lord, we’re fucking doomed.

It’s harder to see on a large Lemmy instance like LW, but most of the fediverse is very patchwork. The network of Lemmy sites is itself very patchwork, with the MLs, Hexbear, Beehaw, NSFW, etc. all having different defederation profiles, but the whole space is an incomplete mesh. Mastodon has more themed instances than Lemmy, more very small instances than Lemmy, and a much bigger anti-capital, anti-commerce bent than Lemmy, with many more people complaining on main about other instances rules and federation policies, so if you look, you can really see it.

But the whole fedi project is patchwork by nature.

Most of these communuties using Discord are better served by something that isn’t a chatroom. So, so, so confusingly many of them use them as a store of permanent information. Like a website+forum.

Many times the benefit of Discord is the ability to paywall parts of it with Patreon integration. We need more foss and federated options that do this.

So many AP platforms are made by a couple of guys in their garage, it’s not even funny, and the mentality of “just dicking around” means what gets used is whatever the whims of the day dictate, rather than the standard.

“If it works, it’s not stupid” and all that.

But that kind of work lacks real world testing, and depe concern for public expectaton or desire.

Plus, you have to keep in mind that the idea of interplatform interoperability isn’t this core conceit of ActivityPub. It’s a potential use case, but it’s not an expectation. There’s no reason anyone should expect interop like that, other than some developers wanted to try it.

But some didn’t, and now that their platforms are gaining audience, they’re refactoring to meet that audience’s expectations.

Chainlink blanet’ll do it

There are also just a lot of personalization options that just aren’t there, particularly for power-lite users, because Linix power users use the terminal for everything.

Like, heaven forbid you want a full featured, advanced file manager or something, but aren’t interested in learning bash scripting…

I always like forum setups where you had limited posting privileges until you’d had a couple of posts. Usually, they’d have an introduction category where you could post, and then comment on some other users’ posts, to get your post or reputation count high enough to unlock the rest of the board.

Most Lemmy sites are small enough to have a local introduction community or other ‘free’ communities for newbies to dip their toes and acclimate. They’d be good places to centralize posts on how all of this works, too.

Wouldn’t scale to large servers, though.

“I absolutely love my new Tesla,” said customer Dave Thompson. “I’ve never actually seen it, but the rebate paperwork is exquisite, and I’m told I legally own ‘the concept of a car,’ which is so much more evolved than traditional ownership.”

Something about this is magical to me.

“I really hope people with interests or skills thst diverge from my own don’t show up”

I cannot stress this strongly enough: You have not been “using Lemmy” for 1.5 years now. “Lemmy” isn’t a service the same way Reddit is, it’s a web engine, like Joomla, or like phpBB.

You’ve been using lemm.ee for 1.5 years.

Nobody wants to hear this, but there’s no “Lemmy”. This emergent network of social media sites isn’t a coherent thing, and it’s not a stable concept. The attempts to make this look like a singular space are to the ultimate detriment of the network, because implicitly lying to end users about what they’re doing informs how they behave.

You’ve been using lemm.ee. Lemm.ee has copies of content on other websites, but those websites have different rules, and different expectations than lemm.ee. You don’t get to pretend otherwise because of where you’re reading the content, and there is no guarantee that you will have further access to content from any other website than lemm.ee.

This is a reality that people simply do not want to face, for some reason. Everyone wants to imagine that federation is just centralized social media with some voodoo in the background, but it is a fundamentally different paradigm, and this is the wild fucking west.

You’re going to get your toes stepped on if you treat it like something it’s not.

You should understand the rules of the places you are posting to, yes.

This is why “let’s pretend this is centralized social media and ignore the fact that we’re all on different websites” is a bad idea, actually. You don’t get to parachute into someone else’s house and expect the rules of your own home apply.

100%. The people who have turned away from the Republican party have only done so out of a distaste for Trump, and maybe Elon. They are almost certainly not opposed much of what is being done, just how they are going about it, and who is doing it.

Or, they’ve just had their faces eaten by leopards, and are upset that they’re suffering the consequences of their actions.

You don’t get to be a Republican in 2016 or 2024 without being ok with burning the whole system down, with dreams of it being to your own benefit. They just don’t trust the current would-be monarchs to be the ones to actually give them what they believe they’re due.