That’s fine and all, but I have one question. Why would you want to want to revisit the biggest video game scam in recent memory?
I’m not at my computer, so please excuse any mobile issues. I’m in favor of the move, because it will help to simultaneously connect and decentralize communications across the platforms. Say what you will about Facebook (you’re probably right), but if they’re that bad, then it seems logical to me to connect to their federated service even more aggressively.
The more we push our content (and by extension the Fediverse content that kbin aggregates), the less impact their algorithm can have. The more we go out of the way to expose their content, the harder we make it them to curate/censor/suppress any voices. And if, when comparing two Fediverse instances or softwares, we find that what’s been pushed to them is different, we the users can call it out to news organizations (or make it public ourselves).
And yes, I know I’m making the arguments for supporting private companies in adopting open-source. It’s about being able to audit what companies we don’t trust are doing.
In addition to that, I’m currently a Threads user. Anecdotally, there’s a lot of wholesome content on there that I appreciate, and what limited advertising is there is nowhere near as obtrusive as Reddit or the main Facebook platform.
Pitchfork being on an alternative social platform just feels right to me. So I say, go for it.
Well, if he doesn’t care, then I just might bother the time and effort to pirate it. But then again, a dismissive creator who’s working with Markiplier isn’t someone I’m really keen on supporting in the first place. I wish him luck, and that he is approximately as successful as I am in financial terms.
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.
Flipboard was neat originally, but never really held my attention.
Honestly, given the ruckus they’ve been raising for a while now, my feeling is that Beehaw wants to push themselves away from society as a whole. I don’t agree with their perspective, which is part of why I never engage with much of their content or users. All I can say is that I wish them only the best for their echo chamber.
When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.
I wonder how well the pirate community will pick this one up.
I’m glad to see point-and-click gaming coming back.
Exactly. People need to vote with their wallets and PCs.
I wonder what this means for Sega now. I hope it’s not predicting a pivot to mobile-first.
Cool. Now I really want to play Smite. If only it were available without DRM.
I’ve thought for a while that something was funny with LTT, because all the stuff they talked about which i knew about, I could find issues that ran from small nitpicks to major problems.
Makes me glad I don’t play shooters.
The “corpo drones” in this case are people willing to follow the directions from Reddit/Advance Media, but not get paid.
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Huh. If it’s running on a new engine, do you think John Romero could remaster Daikatana on the new engine?
Maybe on your instance - it’s your loss. But admins have a choice - defed from them and lose access to all those users and having actual content worth looking at, or federate with them and actually grow your network into something that has enough going on to make people interested. As it is, I use Threads right now. I strongly prefer it to Mastodon. Kbin comes close, but has less content to idly scroll through. If no Fediverse site I use supports Threads, I’ll keep on using it.