Epic not getting enough flak for being involved.

It happened on Fortnite.

The idea that Epic didn’t know is a joke.

I hate that I can hear Lore saying “…because of the implication.”

The Engineers Dilemma:

Once you get off your butt to go see what the problem is, the problem will mysteriously solve itself for the time being.

Source: Worked in local television News Production. We would regularly call on the engineers for the problem to fucking resolve itself by the time they showed up. Always made me feel real stupid.

*Valve laughs in Gabe Newell, owner of Valve and former employee of Microsoft.

Motherfucker left Microsoft to focus on games. He spearheaded the move to Linux to protect their store from becoming blocked on Windows. He knows how Microsoft works, intimately.

I’d be really surprised if Valve got sold to Microsoft while Newell still lives.

Ya don’t say? A wildly popular weight loss drug wasn’t tested enough before being unleashed on the public?

Who could have expected such a thing?

Didn’t something similar happen in the 90’s with Fen/Phen?

Me. I expected it. Along with anyone else that has been paying attention to how the pharma industry handles things.

Taking away your labor power from chucklefucks who use the sweat of your brow to continue to oppress you is good praxis.

People talk about boycotting by not buying things from certain companies, but not enough people commit to not giving their labor to those companies in exchange for a paycheck. That’s a boycott, too. When you’re working for them, you’re literally helping them believe the dumbfuck shit they believe, and allowing them to use their financial largess to influence the media to promote their dumbfuck bullshit.

Standing up for the people who no longer are “economically viable” means something. But go ahead, let your boss say your parents should just die when they’re too damaged to work. Laugh with them about it. Go ahead and be a callous asshole who won’t stand up for someone who can’t stand up for themselves.

I’m basically in the position that I’m driving a car from 1999, and when it finally dies, I’ll either be resigned to riding the bus or finding another aged used car without all this absolute bullshit in it.

Maybe it really is time for the Free Open Source Vehicle.

Sounds like everyone should have listened to Pearl Jam thirty years ago when Tickermaster wasn’t a complete monopoly.

Arguably, that’s the whole point. I never played the original Fallout thinking I could play every option. I’ve seen people complaining about “you have to use savescumming or you miss half the dialogue.” No, that’s called “replayability” so when you go back and try as a different type of character, there will be paths you’ll be locked out of, but there will also be paths that were previously closed now open.

Cheers and thanks for this guide! Saving it for later.

I think that’s valid, but from what I’ve seen, it mostly relates to Western propaganda against China.

I don’t trust the US or Chinese governments, really, but I can at least admit from a Western perspective, a lot of stuff promoted about China is propaganda, and I don’t disagree with the admins that it can be perceived as “racist.” I agree with the admins on that and it seems that is mostly where the accusations lie, with them supporting China. I think that’s fair and China is just as full of actual real humans (actually more) than the US and other Western nations. Painting all US citizens or all Chinese citizens with a broad brush isn’t acceptable. Valid critiques of their government should be, but a lot of Western critiques can often (and should) be dismissed as not valid, highly propagandist, or even racist.

Example: US people complaining about China’s “Social Credit Score” while having no issues with the US “Economic Credit Score” even though they achieve similar goals.

Anyway, that’s what I’ve seen. People post something that’s anti-China from a Western perspective and admins remove it.

Also, “if you don’t agree you can gtfo” is kind of the entire point of federation. You can always choose another instance that these guys don’t run. I think that’s an entirely valid attitude, and it’s one that allows the Fediverse to grow instead of stagnate on one server.

The devs addressed this in the post-reddit-blackout post. You are free to come to your own conclusions.

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

On another topic, there are rumors circulating that we are fascists or supported genocide. These claims are completely false, and like most viral twitter threads, are coming from a single Mastodon user on a personal vendetta who didn’t provide any sources. Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored. If you want to know the truth then read the following pages (both from 2021):

• History of Lemmy
• What is lemmy.ml

As you can see we are not a faceless corporation that is accomodating to everyone. We are individuals with our own opinions. If you disagree with these, it is no problem! You can still freely use the Lemmy software on different instances. If you host your own instance, we have no control over it at all and are unable to censor what users say. For more details read the documentation on censorship resistance. In practice, the instance list already contains various instances whose content would be banned from lemmy.ml immediately.

Definition of concern trolling. As if Reddit gives a shit about your privacy either.

Reddit: You’re giving your information to strangers! You don’t know what they’ll do it with it!

Me: Weren’t you going to sell my data?

Reddit: Yeah, but that’s different! We’re a respectable adult capitalist business. These are fucking commie pinko freaks we’re talking about here!

All options that aren’t federated are just as reasonably suspect when it comes to good stewardship of your data. A federated universe means if you really are that worried about it, you can spin up your own instance and be able to trust yourself with your own data.

Also, is it really a shocker that Reddit would turn to McCarthy-era Red Scare tactics? What’s next, hiring the fucking Pinkertons like Wizards of the Coast did?

I mean, I keep coming back to that being the entire point of the Fediverse.

Sure, it means in some ways discussion can be different on different servers, but isn’t that the entire point? To not have a single point of failure? If one instance puts down draconian rules that makes a certain community unwelcome, then why not move to an instance that you feel is welcoming?

In other words, post where you feel like, and/or where the people are. I really don’t have an issue with cross-posting to other instances or having different discussions about the same subject.

Some instances have defederated with others, so another aspect of this is having multiple communities means people who have been defederated can still take part in the same community on a still federated instance.

So he’d still be on the hook for any severance owed, etc

He’s being sued left and right for… *checks notes… not paying severance. So I’m not so sure “on the hook for severance” means much either.

I would like to say that “future of reddit” image is really egregious, but I suppose its in line with other social media hell-holes.

The goggles, they do nothing.

It seems like it can take several minutes or more for the search to find the federated instance and start populating search results.

Yeah, so far it has been neither buggy nor confusing for me. It’s taken a small amount of research and being willing to ask fellow Lemmings how things work. It’s actually a much more fully fleshed out in many ways than a lot of other social media sites. I just learned how to do footnotes^[1], for example.

I stated a similar sentiment elsewhere. The reason the discussions on reddit became less rigorous and interesting is a case of Eternal September. As you make a site more user-friendly and accessible, you actually are inviting a lot of users who are would have been unwilling to learn a slight learning curve. Maybe it’s remiss of me to say, but I think it speaks to their unwillingness to change their minds or being willing to view a new perspective about much.

As an older person here who was on Slashdot and left for Digg and then left to reddit, I genuinely think having a slight learning curve prevents people who would otherwise be shitposters and nothing else from joining the fray. I really would like to see high quality discussions online thrive again like they often did in the early days reddit (and where they often still do on its predecessor, hackernews), and as elitist as it is to say, I think having it be a little more technical and confusing isn’t a bad thing.

Also, as an older person here, if people are willing to figure out the initially quite confusing way that Discord works, they can figure this out, too.

I always liked Metafilter’s “Front Page Post” where the text body included many more links and information about the subject. (I have linked here to what I consider a particularly well done example)

I think there’s some quality writers out there and some people doing really good research (and I’m not just talking about DD in /r/Superstonk), and having additional information is of great service to deeper discussion. Otherwise half of the discussion can be unknowingly a retread of very well-worn ideas. That’s less likely to happen the more information is added.

I like the idea of a TL;DR at the beginning of a post, but I also like the idea of additional links and information “below the jump” as the beanplaters at MeFi say. This allows the best of both worlds, a quick rundown as well as more information for those who wish to view it.