Fatigue. There’s just been so much and it’s kinda fucking draining if you stay plugged in to it all. It’s not like doomscrolling will make the situation any better either.
Also like, that was kind of the point of Don’t Look Up. People do just shut these things out. If you understood the movie you should know the answer to your question.
Can BlueSky really be called decentralized when 99% of it is bluesky.social?
They’re gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don’t contain a backdoor. They’re gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.
It is theatrics. They know they’ve already got literally the entire userbase on their server, so none of this actually matters.
When Bluesky inevitably enshittifies, they take the whole network down with them.
BlueSky pays lip service to federation, but they’ve set it up so that they’ve got effective control of 99% of the network. It’s a sham to convince people they’re different from every other corporate-owned social media platform, but it really isn’t.
It feels like activity has dropped off a bit since the last Reddit exodus. And I worry that this platform is never going to see the kind of critical mass I’d want out of it, to be big enough that I can use it to discuss more niche topics and fandoms than what’s currently on offer here. I see communities get made and die off on the regular from people who want to use this platform they way they used Reddit but quickly realize they can’t.
I’m still here because I believe in the ideals of a federated platform, but I just don’t know what the future holds at this rate.
Some instances have this baked in as a way to anonymize downvotes, these accounts are not real accounts but are just federated to other instances so they can’t see what actual account the downvote came from. I believe this is now a standard PieFed feature.
IMO, making downvotes public was kind of a mistake of the protocol. There’s a reason why most software stopped showing them publicly, but the fact that they’re there on the backend means a determined user can peek to find out who to get mad at, and I think that’s a problem.
Vocaloid is a synthesizer, not AI.
Riichi mahjong. Starting playing online about six years ago, started going out to play in-person two years ago. Recently took 3rd in a small online tournament, but I’ve yet to put up good IRL tourney results…
No idea, but I’m assuming probably not.
Here’s my whole library if you want to see everything I like. Some notable exclusives:
One tab with subscribed/new, another tab with all/hot.
Every time I see this I just get flashbacks to Homestuck typing quirks.
I’m less concerned about the iPad than I am about the world they’re growing up into. The wealth gap keeps getting wider, the job market has made many fields into a catch 22 where you can’t get experience if you don’t have experience, the planet is buring, and fascism is happening.
Are we assuming this person has never used any other operating system before?
Because I do think a lot of the perception of Linux being more difficult is just because people who grew up on Windows or MacOS have gotten so used to those that the inertia of trying something new is what’s hard about it.
Kirby Air Riders. I waited 22 years for this sequel and it delivered. I’m actually blown away by how much Sakurai has managed to evolve on the concept.
Quite a lot of modern anime. My list of all-time favorites has become dominated by shows from just the last few years. Apocalypse Hotel, Apothecary Diaries, Bocchi the Rock!, CITY: The Animation, Dungeon Meshi, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Takopi’s Original Sin.
Farfetch’d
It really depends on what kinds of games you want to play. The AAA industry is largely a mess these days, but it’s not like those are the only games that exist.
I built my PC on a modest budget several years ago, and it’s still overkill for my favorite 2D indie games. Setting up Steam shouldn’t be difficult, nor should downloading from itch.io.
I bought a Switch 2 at launch, and that’s pretty much just plug and play.
Emulation is a bit more tinker-y to set up, but it’s really not too hard to get a nice library of classics at your fingertips.
Trying to convince people I know to join the Fediverse is like, well, it’s a lot like trying to convince people to switch to Linux. They’re not gonna do it and I’ll look like a jackass if I talk about it too much.
If there was an easy way to grow this platform overnight, we’d be doing it. Reality is there’s no shortcut, all we can do is continue building community with the people who are here and hope that we see some slow and steady incremental growth.
What kind of ‘something’ do you want me to do?