NotTheOnlyGamer

I find it interesting that they didn’t suggest the possibility that came to my mind first: cannibalization. If it was small to start with, but in clearing the neighborhood, also was volcanic enough to absorb smaller planetoids, it might have absorbed them and grown.

I’m getting back into Digimon World: Dawn recently.

kbin finally has notifications not throwing an error every time I try to check them, so that much is nice now. I’ve actually had no problems with the Reddit software on my phone, and I’ve unsubbed from most of the communities I was part of there which moved across to lemmy. That choice has really trimmed my experience down to a more focused one nicely. I’ve also gotten done turning federation back off as I want it to be, and my user block list here is getting pretty long, blocking out the spammers that come across my feed.

Of course, because kbin is still one of the smallest sites related to the ActivityPub protocol, there’s limited content here compared to Reddit, Then again, there’s also less content on all of PeerTube (let alone a single site) than there is on YouTube, and I’d take a shot at saying that even Threads has the largest Mastodon community beat by a country mile, let alone what Twitter still has.

So basically, I guess I’d say I’m not a refugee, I’m just doing as I did with Facebook when it first launched after MySpace and Friendster - keeping my options open and looking around.

I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.

So you want to have the Side colonies from Gundam?

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.

RIP. He was a great comedian, and a valuable lesson to us who grew up watching. I hope wherever his spirit ends up, he can be at peace.

Drugs can do that to a person.

I’m sure users will step forward if they care. Otherwise, it’s just a campaign optimization at work. Limit the breadth of organic content to deepen the brand-friendly content and push more paid media into the feed.

Sure, and 2023 will finally be the year of Linux Desktop.

As opposed to many of you, I look forward to Meta joining up with ActivityPub. I’ve learned to embrace Eternal September; and have come to understand the debt I owe to it. Companies win, yes. I haven’t used Google chat in years. I don’t bother keeping a copy of Gaim/Pidgin on my PC because I don’t want to bother talking with anyone in a Jabber chat (Yeah, yeah, it’s XMPP now, I started when it was Jabber and I was on the mothership server). Everyone I need to talk to moved from GChat to Skype, and then at some point, from Skype to Discord. They never stopped at Jabber, Mumble, or other OSS options; though some joined me in passing through. As I’ve said, human nature is opposed to load-balancing. People want to be part of the largest possible community, at least at first.

I would love to have an easy way to talk to local friends again, and have a wide base of information to share with them. If this new system is easier to coordinate local groups with than Meetup is, I’ll be joining and becoming a fairly active user. I might keep my Lemmy accounts, my Mastodon account, and my KBin account - just like I’m keeping my Reddit account now.

If servers want to defederate from Facebook, that’s their loss.

How about just opening without trolling?

Aaron would be so disappointed.

Viewing on old.reddit, blocking ads, blocking trackers, etc, isn’t totally against the spirit of what’s going on.

There’s a reason for that. While officially for tax purposes, Reddit was made independent because Advance Media didn’t want that big a failure on their books, Advance is still the majority shareholder. That means that the following publications either would be on Spez’s side, or have to keep muzzled. I think it’s better for them to keep out of it rather than wade in and be called out for the mandates that’d come down from Editorial.

• Wired
• Ars Technica
• Backchannel

A lot of the tech world goes to those as canonical sources. That means it gets kept dark.