CoderKat

Problem is that there’s a bunch of major communities on that instance. They have no affiliation with the server admins and mostly just chose the instance because it seemed like the default very early in the migration to the Fediverse.

Yeah, the key thing here is that you (and OP) should be only using one account (in both of your cases, your kbin account) on the site your account belongs to (kbin.social). The site takes care of the federation. There’s generally nothing you need to do † and you don’t even actually need to know how the federation works. Simply treat the @domain thing as part of a magazine’s name (eg, it’s never just “memes” but “[email protected]”).

† The exception is when you’re the first person on your instance to subscribe to a sub on another instance. Right now this has a phenomenally bad UX and I’m hoping it will be improved quickly.

Probably because “join Lemmy” is way too broad and Lemmy sites don’t have good page rank scores yet. With any luck, the sites becoming bigger will improve results.

That said, I’m not sure if the page rank algorithm will even work very well on them without changes, since there’s so many possible URLs for different instances view of the same post. It likely dilutes the rank of any particular result.

As an aside, even if Google worked well, I suspect it would end up causing the biggest instances to only get bigger. Google gives weight to what other people link to, and that’s most likely to be from the largest instances. Also, the whole idea of creating new instances probably doesn’t mesh well with how web search works, since it isn’t likely to trust new, unfamiliar sites.

MMOs have done expansions well. I personally wouldn’t ever pay money for micro transaction cosmetics, but I will buy every decent expansion for an MMO I’m playing.

I haven’t played CK2 yet, but if its DLC is like Stellaris or Cities: Skylines, it’s arguably usually worth it. Very expensive when you add it all up and not all DLC is worth it (e.g., the race packs of Stellaris aren’t really that interesting), but for how much play time you’ll get out of the game, it’s pretty great. I regularly think about how often I want to go back to Stellaris lol. Part of the reason I haven’t tried CK2 yet is because I’m pretty confident that I’ll love it and be sucked in for weeks.

I don’t get that. Cyberpunk is by no means perfect. But how is it not a complete game? I put in a ton of hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you saying that because the AI was bad, it’s incomplete? Cause very, very few games are complete if that’s the benchmark we use.

It got over hyped, but capital G gamers did what they do best and blew it out of proportion as if someone kicked their baby.

Note: I played on PC several months after launch. Maybe it was incomplete when it came out, but it sure as hell ain’t now.

Yeah. I’m not sure why most people would want to use frankly any of these alternatives beyond a blackout period when they’re all mostly worse than Reddit’s mobile app anyway. The only things they do better IMO are ads (the official Reddit ads can be really bad) and simply that desire to not give money to Reddit when they’re acting like they’re currently acting. Neither which are frankly going to convince the average person.

But I mean, the site doesn’t have much content nor an app (or comparable quality mobile site). These sites aren’t without merit, but to actually stand a chance of actually replacing reddit takes a lot.