Is a p2p system for media with the instances just hosting magnet links too slow for fediverse purposes? To me this seems like the most resilient way to handle media in a decentralized system

A live service game failing isn’t newsworthy. It’s newsworthy when one isn’t completely terrible

After 6 months VC money demands they move on into live service and other ways to screw their audiences

Todays Mac’s are tomorrow’s Linux machines.

I deleted my Reddit back in the API debacle (well I deleted all my content, still squatting on the username since I use it else where as well)

Being here shows that there really is no reason to go back to Reddit for the default subs which are just absolutely useless karma farms. The juice isn’t worth the squeeze for niche subs, I do hope that the fediverse will grow enough to support the niche interests without falling into the enshittification pitfalls of corporate social media

It’s like 8 total games. They are probably going for their stupid drip release strategy.

I did the same using Mastodon for my blog, ended up switching to Disqus (shudders) just because it supports more SSO options for accounts that my limited readership is likely to have

Buy physical, dump the cart and then install it digitally to whatever damn device I please

I think hexbear started from chapotraphouse refugees when it got banned from Reddit. So it’s leftist but with the toxic culture from that.

I buy Nintendo games but I don’t believe they have should have any right to block me from running their software that I’ve dumped myself on any device I see fit. How does that make me entitled when I purchased their software?

Isn’t that exactly what “Active” sort does?

Once a thread gets large enough, no one is going back to read the first page. Maybe for communities on Lemmy, “Active” is the sort method that would work the best as you’d describe, but sorting the comments/replies by votes seems the best method to make sure the most important knowledge is visible

Glad I hacked my switch before Nintendo all went to shit. I am done buying Nintendo products. (To be fair I will never have time to get through my back log anyway)

Or in this case die a hero and then someone pays to desecrate your corpse and reanimate you

From what I can see, people will downvote shitposts even if they agree with it. But the downvote is used as the disagree button the majority of the time.

I will upvote any comment that seems to be made in good faith but I don’t have any illusions of that being how the majority of the network uses their votes. I think a higher percentage of people use their vote that way compared to Reddit but not much to make a difference.

That’s why I suggested hiding votes entirely. I think that would be unpopular because people like the dopamine hit of seeing your comment score go up, and so my compromise was to only hide 0 or negative scores.

It’s more of a vibe check than a fact check. But I think it’s definitely useful for the network to self moderate since mods are pretty much entirely voluntary on Lemmy.

I’m of the opinion that downvotes are useful for self moderation of troll/off-topic comments or posts.

People also use it as a disagree button. That use doesn’t bother me personally but I see a lot of users get upset about having a negative score on a comment.

I think the best method is to keep the votes and either hide the score total or to not visibly show any score that’s less than 1

I’ve already seen admins go through the federated votes on their instance to call out anyone who disagrees with them.

I don’t have a strong opinion either way but I don’t think it will be healthy for discourse to unlock that power for everyone

I don’t recommend it, but going bass-to-mouth was a very popular and hyped feature addition for SEGA Bass Fishing. I’m surprised this is the first you are hearing of it

Actually RDR2 came out nearly 6 years ago.