Kichae

joined 2 years ago
[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

Pick a smaller, focused website and focus on Local. Then you can ignore what's going on elsewhere.

Lemmy isn't a community, it's a technology. And ActivityPub is madw with the goal of letting anyone and everyone use it and participate. Just like HTTP. Griping because "the wrong kind of people are showing up" is the kind of thing the wrong kind of people do.

You don't get to build your gate in the public square.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 month ago

Rewarding the employer for underpaying the employees is not, in any way, the right direction, though? Not tipping is just telling the employees "I don't care if you get paid, so long as I get what I want"

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean, there's limited content, and Lemmy hasn't attracted the same kind of personality as modern Reddit. It makes total sense that things would be upvoted quickly, but comments would be sparse or short.

People patted themselves on the back when they showed up for being "old reddit" and "power users", but most of us were just cranky phone users who didn't want to use the official app. Lemmy users are not the boistrous, verbose philosophers people wanted to believe they were.

We're scrollers, sitting on the toilet.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Well, the different "instances" are different websites, each hosting and serving their own copy of the original post and comments. You're interacting with your local copy, and your comments are forwarded along to the original website. The original website then sends out copies of your comment to all the other websites that have requested updates.

If your website has banned someone, it will reject content from that user. That's what being banned means: I refuse to host your posts. Just because your posts are being routed through a 3rd party doesn't mean I want to host them.

Like, if you got banned from Reddit, they wouldn't let you post there, either. If you commented on a mirror of a post, hosted on a different website, you wouldn't expect that comment to show up on Resdit, would you? Well, that's what the fediverse is: a network of content mirrors. Yes, they're mirrors that, generally, tey to synchronize with each other, but they're still mirrors. And independent mirrors at that.

They will never be perfectly synchronized. There's no true Lemmy to reflect. No whole. There is only what is locally hosted.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I haven't run many true one-shots. Not short, contained, focused, pre-written adventures. Usually I'm just cobbling things together (which is why I actually really love your books). But I've always wanted to play the We Be Goblins! series.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

And it's going to be functionally all Canadians who are living near or below the poverty line. You can't afford enough carbon to pay more in tax than you get back in rebate if you're not rich enough to be irresponsible.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

Well, it really depends on what one wants the fediverse to be. Should it be homogenized? Or heterogeneus? Having new servers auto-synchronize with the "top" (however one defines this) existing sites promotes homogeneity and the simulation of centralized social media. This seems to be what people here today want.

But if you're creating a simulacrum of centralized social media, you have to answer the question: Why wouldn't I just stay on an actually centralized service?

The fesiverse has the chance to be something new, if we just abandon the desire to make believe that it's like what we already have.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey Marcus! Great to see you over here! You should check out dice.camp if you haven't explored Mastodon yet.

For anyone interested, I have the print editions of all 3 QuarterShots books, and they are really great. I can't recommend them highly enough.

Check out Deficient Master's review for some better details. He sums things up better than I ever could.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And this is why the advertisers own the Internet now

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I really think we need to stop looking for a single-service solution to everything.

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

Because the influencer market knows how to leverage microblogs to generate an income.

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