It’s the question.
Lately I’ve been thinking about how you’d design a racing sim that rewards and gamifies clean racing but the basic answer is that you’d have to set it in world so different from our autoracing history and technology that you’d lose 75% of your player base who are mostly interested in real cars (the same way FIFA games appeal to people who want the real players, and don’t actually care about the game design of football).
On PS5 there’s platform native ‘Accolades’ where you can rate the people you’ve played with, but Bruce I never play the kinds of games that they’re designed for I have no idea if they’re used or how they even work. The point being though even Sony were trying to approach this topic at an OS/ecosystem level.
The idea is that the city will build upwards, rather than outwards
Yeah an absolute bolt from the blue, how can New Zealand ever prepare for the sudden and unprecedented invasion of multistory buildings.
Saw a comment on my local councils post of someone worried that the Tauranga CBD would look like Shanghai in a fews years “at the rate they’re going”.
Some of the most popular, picturesque tourist spots and residential locales in the world make NZs “high density” plans look laughably wastaful in comparison, and people are still tearing their hair out about it.
The idea is that the city will build upwards, rather than outwards
Yeah an absolute bolt from the blue, how can New Zealand ever prepare for the sudden and unprecedented invasion of multistory buildings.
Saw a comment on my local councils post of someone worried that the Tauranga CBD would look like Shanghai in a fews years “at the rate they’re going”.
Some of the most popular, picturesque tourist spots and residential locales in the world make NZs “high density” plans look laughably wasteful in comparison, and people are still tearing their hair out about it.
That’s because standards changed
Just donate if you want to support your server.
Awards are special actions reserved for people who pay, that don’t improve the platform anyway. It’s enshittification.
On this subject, my personal definition for millennial is someone in the age bracket where they had to teach themselves how to use windows as a kid
I don’t think it’s in its final form.
It’s obvious that brands and influencers were offered the chance to be pre-verified and, while I haven’t seen direct evidence myself, the word is that they could get some kind of FB/insta promotional discounts by being there to post on day 0 with a witty canned line about how great it was to be on threads
So when the app opened to the masses, they don’t have to follow anybody or wait for their friends before it had “value”. They open it up and there are a bunch of brands and “personalites” making it looking like it’s already alive and the place to be
The other stuff will probably come later… although there’s the chance that they’re going after tiktoks model of “we know what you want”
Rotating gifs all over every homepage
No because I didn’t choose this public forum for its privacy or security
Notepad++ , nano if that counts lol
I joined because a company who ran a creative product I used ended up using it as their primary comms channel. So a scene and community formed there, because it was the only way to stay up to date.
I ended up following quite a few people from that community, and I never use the algorithm feed - all I see is posts about games, art, music etc made by the community and it’s where I share or promote my own games and other work.
I never see any other twitter garbage or drama in the course of average use. I have seen the shit thats out there, and as fucking abysmal as it is, it’s no better or worse than default/popular reddit, which I equally avoid.
Connect also seems the most rif-like, so it’s a clear win for me
Yes, that’s how I know it has legs.
From usenet to reddit, the internet spaces that began by attracting a critical mass of internet/tech experts and enthusiasts are always the ones that end up going the distance.
You don’t want to rush this place going mainstream, I promise. Enjoy it while it lasts.
I remember Armagetron always getting fired up at LANs when I was at uni, 2005ish
Growth for growths sake.
Not just at a platform level but at a community level too. Around 6 or 7 years ago I started to really notice people talking about growing their subreddits, making changes and tools designed to increase the subscriber count.
For what? There’s nothing to gain.
The main subreddit I modded finally became impossible to moderate for quality when, despite our lack of “growth strategy”, the influx of new users became too much for the communitys culture to persist and it slowly turned into a lowest-common-denominator topic-flavoured meme ghetto. And from the outside I saw many of my favourite subreddits fall to the same scenario.
So I would say, we should avoid or rethink the idea of growing lemmy for its own sake. Eternal September will come eventually, lets not rush it
Growth for growths sake doesn’t help anybody
It feels like reddit from ten years ago, and has the critical mass to make it interesting to open and browse. I think it’s a success.
I only use reddit now on revanced rif to visit a couple of communities that are too small to be worth replicating here yet
Agreed, the data concern is a red herring. Might as well do a “I hereby revoke consent for Facebook to take my data…” post for all the good it will do you.
Block Threads because of the potential impact it can have on the quality of experience here. That’s a good enough reason. Nobody joined a lemmy so that they could keep in touch with people who use social media to gossip about brands and influencers.
Give The Drummer Some from Ultramagnetic MCs, and that whole album really.
I’m up early after being divebombed by my fattest cat since 5am. Had a social event last night, fortunately one of the better ones of the season with a good group of friends.
Tonight we are having a dinner to welcome the new neighbours in our building. They are Brazilian and we saw they bought a nice bbq with them so we all offered to pay for the meat if they’d show us how it’s done. Really looking forward to that.