Oh yeah, I totally forgot the Usenet, before my generation, sorry!

Innovation is a spiral, ain’t it?

Used to be a fan of Louis back on my days of computer repair shop. Nice to see he is still going strong!

But yeah, the writing on the wall is clear, and it’s not just Reddit. Imho, this situation emphasizes the importance of smaller, connected communities rather than massive social media platforms. We came to love massive social networks, but didn’t realize the consequences of getting lost in the crowd and becoming mere data points for profit. Small, connected communities offer a more personal and respectful alternative.

What we have here with the Fediverse is a gold mine. Picture 00’s phpbb forums, but all with access to each other. That just sound like a good time to me. It’s rough around the edges, sure, but it’s own corner of web.

Oh yeah, my hopes are high, I already am quite fond of this new home. :)

I think preservation is happening, the issue lies in accessibility. Projects like Archive.org are the public ones, but it is certain that private organizations are doing the same, just not making it public.

This is also something that is my biggest worry about the Fediverse. It has tools to deal with it, but they are self-contained. No search engine is crawling the Fediverse as far as I’ve looked, and no initiative to archive, index and overall make the content of the Fediverse accessible is currently in place, and that’s a big risk. I’m sure we will soon be seeing loss of information for this reason, if not already happened.

Theres more to it than that, vut it does help. However, the base issue here I think is that they just don’t crawl the federated space yet.

This is the gist of it. It will happen again, and again, and again. After they go public, every quarter that they need to come up with some shenanigans to satisfy shareholders, it will happen again. Eventually, either a new thing will come up and start it all over again, or we will be mostly decentralized.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried a few, DRG, Warframe, destiny, and some others, but that hasn’t clicked for me unfortunately.

I really feel a game like Rust or PUBG, but with a massive pick up and play scenario with shared goals where everyone collaborates, would be a great game.

I haven’t come across anything similar, as I think it would be something between a 3/4-person shooter and a full blown MMORPG?

I don’t know, there are likely many technical complications obviously, but I feel there is unexplored terrain there.

The main issue for me is also the pvp aspect, which in reality just makes for a somewhat unfair game. I would love a battle royalish game that was PVE, or just collaborative in some manner, where everyone got together to fight bots and gain control of the territory. It’s definetly tougher to implement, but it would be great.

Lemmy was not created last week, man. All you see here today already existed and was running when spez hit the fan.

In that sense, part of what attracts me to this is a bit of the barrier to entry. I find it enticing, it reminds me of the good old days, where you had to earn your way in, in a sense. Of course that’s silly old man talk, because honestly, all you have to do is select any random site and sign up.

Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, it all comes down to the same thing. This “barrier” to entry is almost fictitious, and I feel that’s the ideal type of barrier.

Is shitting on your users the new 2023 trend?

If you think Edge is a bust, I got news for you: if you are using Windows, pretty much everything spies on you now days. :)

I’ve been itching to play the base since release, despite the bugs. I might finally bite the bullet get a rig that can play it. I may even convince myself to get the Steam Deck for it! Does the base game currently run smoothly on the Deck?

I feel the generation gap for the first time when I see people complaining about the difficulty of selecting a server to sign up and connect to!

Other than that, it does bring a lot of the atmosphere of the wild west times of the web, in a good way. I’m liking it!

Hopefully we retain a healthy amount of users after this wave passes and everyone is back at reddit. :)

The main reason is that although the concessions we make may seem ever so insignificant, they pile up and dettach you from what you were looking for in the first place. You barely see your acquaintances posts on instagram or facebook anymore. Twitter is on it’s way to become a cesspool. Every new Reddit “feature” just makes the experience worse. It won’t be long for those platforms to all converge into a big mind grinder for propaganda.

In fediverse there is no valuation seeking to ruin things, and there won’t be for the foreseeable future, so it’s good ground to build upon, it’s just good sense.

Take the content problem for example. You can think of that as an opportunity to be the content you want to see.