If only the US democrats and republicans hasn’t lobbied and pushed for this war to happen.

Oh I’m sorry. Forgot you can’t say that and we have to pretend Russia woke up one day and decided to invade… Sigh.

No it’s not. And for every account you don’t have a shared history. You don’t build a community.

Also, which are those apps you talk about? Because Jerboa doesn’t seem to be great for that. Switching between accounts is needed and quite annoying.

We are much less beholden to power tripping arseholes here than on a platform like Reddit

No. You’re way more beholden. The adminmod rules it all. What you see, who they federate, etc and it’s all defended by rabid users because “if you don’t like it leave and build your own instance*”. It’s not about community but instance owner absolute power.

Doesn’t quite work unless you’re absolutely in line with whichever narrative is happening. The echo chambers are bigger and the consequential toxicity upon dissent, much bigger.

They already did. Every user wants their specific admin led circlejerk with no disent. Else you’re a nazi. You don’t like it? Make your own instance.

Lemmy is not it, as it stands. Not whil users di y have cross instance user control and don’t depend on admins which are a worse version of power hungry Reddit mods with a more fanatical crowd.

Can you suggest that smaller instance? Meeaw and sh.it, the 2 instances I tried keep defederating left and right and justifying bullying as long as it confirms to their political opinions.

It’s hypocritical, circlejerky and boring. Made me go back to Reddit. I don’t understand how this paradigm of no user control without the absurd friction of self hosting is better for the user unless you’re a niche authoritarian who is fully subservient to some admin.

The friction is too high each time. Compared to Reddit without offering that much value. Hell, that Blocklist admin is good and owns your user Paradigm makes for very inflexible and circlejerky interactions

Love it or leave means total consent or fuck you. That’s not a community. It’s a cult.

Yes. I also can develop my own social website. Both are efforts that are not worth it to undertake to just participate in this environment, which, will make the default barrier of entry a ridiculous one (or an authortiarian minded one).

No. It’s not. When the power is on decentralized Ids that the instance doesn’t have so much power over, then it will be more interesting. As it stands, it offers actually less than Reddit, which is incredible to me (I’m super onboard with descentralization and user power but this is not user power).

Actually defederated as it works here means one party has way more power than in centralized Reddit.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/511746

It ruins it for anyone who is not deeply in agreement with the admins.

It’s admins and groupthink over users. And zero stability or discoverability. Friction with little to gain unless you’re in authoritarian lockstep

That can be used by any authoritarian claiming to be the greatest good.

It’s great to bully and censor but inevitably ends in subjugation.

That’s the types that want this end up in very small circles or simply agreeing with whatever authority sells.

Except the user had actually more power to create a positive experience with heterogeneous content in the centralized Reddit than here.

The problem is that this and other places were sold as reddit alternatives and they’re actually worse than Reddit in that, on Reddit , with one account you could choose what to see and when (akin to controlling your own federation). If you didn’t like a mod team you could choose another sub easily. Same account. You could keep looking at the same place too.

Federation at the admin of an instance level means all that has a high cost (account per instance), you don’t get to see all at once due to the need to switch accounts and communities are fragmented.

There’s also a very clear thin skinned authoritarian attitude that seems to promote bullying against any type of dissent while claiming some sort of moral authority.

Lemmy is broken as a Reddit replacement. By not having the onus on the user but on the admin, and seeing the attitudes from the recommended major instances, it has little chance to generate diverse or interesting content and communities. Just very narrow and small, toe the line places with poor discoverability.

Shame.

Edit: in Reddit communities were above mods. In Lemmy, it’s potentially/in practice whiny Mods complaining about anyone in their community that doesn’t fully agree with them and having the power to completely ruin their account. Much worse.

Tough learning curve but yeah, one of the most impressive procedurally generated games out there.

There’s plenty roguelikes/terminal games with procedurally generated content as well. ADOM or nethack are two of the most popular examples.

Dying light is such a beautiful experience. The Additional. Stories in the DLC are fun enough from an “more stuff to do standpoint”.

I’ve played a bit of the DL2 and it’s different but also very fun but am saving it for when I have more time.

Some very well known stuff like Valheim but also dredge.

Dredge is great for casual playstyle if you like nice looking fishing/boating experiences in games. Think stardew Valley level of fishing. Something that just works and is very pleasant. The theme of Lovecraft is enticing but not overly profound.