Yes, but how did they suck? It’s what I go into detail explaining.

*Nothing personal ofc db0 you run an awesome instance.

Insult acknowledged! Benned for life!

I used to use them a lot before Reddit, but I never really liked them. Too many to list or even remember at this point.

That’s a double-edged knife. yes it feels closer and personal, but it also breeds inside groups and cliques. I’ve been turned away from multiple forums because I was too ASD to fit in with their culture but there was no other space to discuss it. And this can go much much worse than just a culture-fit. Not to mention that if that forum becomes too popular, that culture is anyway lost.

However using lemmy there’s the best of both worlds. You can still keep your instance small enough so that you know your local users, but also be able to interact with the larger community without the extra effort I explained. For example there’s instances out there like beehaw and hexbear which through have managed to retain their own culture and standards even while federated.

People do and have left communities in the past. /r/Marijuana to /r/trees comes immediately to mind and there have been many many others. But leaving for an entirely different service has a way higher executive cost. Once people are in the fediverse however, the cost to switching primary communities is not that high, and we’ve seen that away when people moved from !risa@startrek.website to !tenforward@lemmy.world due to mod actions.

Again, the point is that nobody can ever stop you from running a community as you see fit, unlike reddit, which easily ban you and your community for any or no reason. And if your community is run well and the other has indeed power-trippin mods, the people will come to yours, as has happened multiple times before. So no, it’s not the same shithole, unless you make one.

Reddit startled the same way. It’s aways first the tech weirdos, early adopters and Foss enthusiasts that start it.

Unlike the reddit, you can always make your own instance and host your own communities and nobody will ever ban you. That’s the whole point of being distributed.

I’m not a celebrity :D

That was clear from the article as well, where they said they took the opinion of 150 bootlickers moderators

Digg still exists. Death of websites is rarely a complete shutter, but usually more of a steady decline into obscurity

Given that automaytic has coutersued already, I think it’ll happen

I play all actually. 1v1 when alone. 2v2 when I can get my buddy. FFA when I want to do it for the memes. I had like 8 hours in FFA last weekend, but got a bit disappointed in it because who tends to win is the one with the meme build sitting on the other side of me that their neighbours never try to counter. Like someone won with 16 hackers in my last game. Cmon.

It’s like fucking crack to me. It’s bad…

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Remember that many people they don’t consume YouTube primarily in a browser

The peeps focusing on finding out scheming prompted an llm to generate scheming. Yawn This is the only surprising if you don’t know that llms are fancy autocompletes.

While I agree there’s a responsibility for combating misinfo, you can’t rely on nation states to decide what is misinfo. Authoritarians do and will abuse this to silence criticism of their regimes.

This is already happening even with Aaa games. The initial purchase doesn’t seem to stop them anyway.

And no I don’t worry about it. I think if there’s motivation we’ll figure out the way. People won’t just ship making or playing good games.

That hijack is one of their worst blunders though as pirates are very romanticized in culture. They just made us look way cooler than the computer nerds we are.