@DarkFox That's good to hear, it wasn't shitty enough as it was.

@Powderhorn @StenSaksTapir

This was my first ever exposure to Battletech, and 35 years later I still love the franchise. This looks awesome.

"People who missed out on the slave trade"

Or "Just google it"

Hehe, 9 year old me teaching myself Turbo Pascal from library books in an effort to learn how to make my own computer games. I was shamelessly ripping off Battletoads with my own game called "Body Building Frogs"

not including calls to kbin.social? Curious how they factor in, since they seem to be getting pretty big.

If someone makes a federated porn app, they could call it "Feddish" ... just give me a mention in the credits.

So I deleted all my posts and comments 4 days ago now, and they have stayed deleted. I'm thinking if you leave your account active for a while afterwards, it doesn't trigger the "undelete" action, if it was ever a real thing. It was highly possible that peoples stuff they thought was being undeleted, was actually just the result of more private subreddits being opened back up. Content you have in a private subreddit will NOT be deleted, as it can't be accessed.

I was thinking of doing this, but with a Lorem Ipsum generator.

Ad companies can't handle the idea that people don't want to be hit with ads every 5 minutes. "Well, it's just BAD ads"... no, it's having my experience constantly interrupted.

Whenever people say "Somebody should do something!" they very rarely ever add "and the somebody is me"

Dude, it'll be totally radical this time around! No psych!

...but most people with any shred of empathy would be pushing for that in his shoes.

Empathy? In late-stage capitalism? 😏

I mean, so... I'm a software engineer who used to specialize in automation. I ended up having a crisis of conscience decades back, realizing that I was putting people out of work. "Hey, good job on that project, our client can afford to let 30 people go now!" never really felt like great praise to me. It actually felt really really shitty knowing the work I was doing was making it possible for the "nobility" to further gain back control of the "serfs".

I figured that the only way this could ever benefit society as a whole instead of shareholders and owners would be if we moved more to a society with things like UBI, with perhaps the people who end up getting something extra being the ones who actually DO the dirty jobs and provide actual worth to society, instead of becoming obscenely wealthy at the expense of empathy and good human spirit. Unfortunately, at least here in the states, anything that smacks of "socialism" automatically equals dictatorship (glossing over that capitalism offers just as many examples of being abused by the "ruling" class). So there's the whole zeitgeist to battle against before the comfortable and less-informed majority will even listen to anything that's in their best interest.

As you say, interesting times indeed. I'm not hopeful that we'll see that sort of shift in my lifetime however, sigh....

Comments are heavily focused on the title of the article and the opening paragraphs. I'm more interested in peoples' takes on the second half of the article, that highlights how the goals companies are touting are at odds with the most likely consequences of this trend.

... despite having nightmarish diarrhea every hour, on the hour.

... because you are the target of those kinks

Gotcha, my bad.

Can spontaneously manifest any variety of cheese

The CPU bottleneck in 1 was my biggest gripe, with needing to load EVERY active asset at game load into RAM a close 2nd. On demand asset loading would help a lot as well.

TBF, American Presidential elections are already pretty controlled to guarantee certain outcomes, given how only 2 parties are ever really given any sort of legitimacy by the media. Throw in gerrymandering, and voting fraud, etc.

The loudest aren't the majority. The loudest are often shills, trolls or AI bots. Just post that there's an alternative, leave the link, and walk away. There will be people coming and joining quietly, in my experience.

Maybe I'm browsing the fediverse at work and hardcore porn is frowned upon, so blurred thumbnails absolutely should be an option, if not the norm.

Doesn't the fact that they're blurred tell you that it's NSFW and therefore what you're looking for?

Dwarf Fortress, going on 15 years now!

I think the people in favor of defederation are looking at how Meta has handled similar situations in the past, and inferring from past behavior how they are likely to act in the future.

The Itcher 3: Geralt of Rivia is searching for a topical analgesic after encountering mosquitos

...and mail it back once it's full.

Well said, and so true!

Yeah, the "enshittification" concept, I've read this, and definitely agree.

Kbin magazines need to make more use of assigning themselves tags to auto federate content in from, and then to use those same tags when posting. But like, nobody uses hashtags lol

EDIT: I also put an issue request in (202 I think?) to allow setting up that sort of functionality by fediverse link

@pixelpusher220 Awesome, glad I could help!

@pixelpusher220 Hmm, I haven't ran into anybody using readit.buzz yet, but I'm willing to try to help you out! The first thing I would do is make sure that if there is an option for federation to turn it on. Maybe ask within the readit.buzz community how to do this. This is early days for a lot of the tools and instances springing up, so there are still kinks being worked out possibly as well there.

I know I can reference and link to my sub by referencing it as @DwarfFortress

@DwarfFortress@kbin.social

Maybe clicking on that above within readit.buzz will direct you to be able to subscribe?

In a pinch if you wanted to view the magazine directly, it is at https://kbin.social/m/DwarfFortress

ETA: The magazine names are usually case sensitive

As a divorced father who lives alone, my dearest hope is that my own kids learned enough from me to do something like this as well.

But all the people who actually provide good content and care about reddit being good have been alienated, so the people that are left in for a fun surprise. Hey, why isn't anybody posting good content anymore? But, but.... but... I'm entitled to good content... what do you mean I actually have to participate?

Thanks, exactly. If somebody had just said "Explain it to me" it would have been a much different explanation. But "explain like I'm FIVE"... well, I explained it in ways a five year old would relate to. Experience: Parent whose children used to be smol.

Democracies work when the voting populace is educated and informed. Unfortunately, humanity willfully avoids being either in favor of opinion and bias.

Ironically, this platform of federated smaller servers makes it impossible for users to hold an entire "subreddit" hostage like is happening on Reddit. It also makes it impossible for any one company to decide what the future of the Fediverse looks like. As my girl Martha would say, "It's a good thing."

@v13 Here's what I wrote to him, in case you're interested.

Dear /u/Spez,

I am tired of the value I provide as a contributor and user of Reddit not being fairly compensated while Reddit makes money. I'm gone until I start getting more money than you do for my content. It's not fair that you should be making money for something I freely provide.

Yeah, that's YOUR argument, funny how it doesn't go both ways, isn't it? You're such a hypocrite, and your ego has killed any desire for me to interact with Reddit anymore. You provide infrastructure, and you provide a name brand, and that's all you provide you arrogant little man. Your users provide all the value to Reddit, and they don't get paid either. Stop acting like you provide any fucking value, because you don't. You are pathetic.

I actually sent spez a private message on my way out, calling out what an arrogant hypocrite he is. He probably won't ever read it, but man it felt good writing it.

Yeah, I can't help but feel like, given his activism, he'd be right here with us.