Brilliant. Thank you for posting that.

I just downloaded the whole book; I’m not really interested in the markets, so I’ve been avoiding Taleb, but that essay has made me rethink that.

Yeah, that was the start of the work reform splinter subreddit.

Or a Fire TV Stick with SmartTube.

Yeah, my kids have always watched on NewPipe, SmartTube, uBkock, pirate Spotify, torrents, pirate streams, etc. It’s to the point that they’re actually excited to see adds since they literally never see them.

Very different from my cable TV childhood.

From other comments, it sounds like there are no physical carts.

An Everdrive would probably work and they’re only like $25 for a Chinese one, plus a few bucks for a micro SD. It’s not like you’d need a big one!

They’ve also put together a few amazing mega bundles for charity over the years.

Not sure how to find them, though, since they aren’t widely advertised. I’ve missed two that I’d have wanted.

Just wanted to add that not all instances are allowing new community creation, including Beehaw.

Exactly my thoughts. $3/month would pay for a lot of server power for a Lemmy instance!

If Reddit charged a reasonable fee for API access and gave at least 6 months notice of the change, and, while we’re at it, didn’t write libel about Christian then we’d be in a very different place right now.

With Reddit doubling down on their misguided changes, I’m just done.

Absolutely… with mods!

Granted, I haven’t had time to sink into it recently, so I’m a bit out of the loop, but Path of Diablo is very popular, and I know there’s another big one I don’t have time to hunt down rn.

D2R is also an option.

That said, I have the nostalgia and patience for D2’s idiosyncrasies from having played it for years; I’m not sure how well it holds up for someone completely new, coming from the more streamlined/polished UX from modern games.

D4 is worse, imho. It forces you to play multiplayer at all times, completely destroying any immersion in the lore.

Sucks, too, because they nailed Diablo’s atmosphere (from games 1 & 2, not the WoW-ified D3 aesthetic.)

The lack of touch controls was a red flag for me, too. Having a trackpad as a backup input device for menus and things seems like it’d be pretty important, but I don’t have a Steam Deck so maybe I’m wrong.

idk, I think it’s there already. I’m already having enough content to engage with and post comments.

Sure, I can’t scroll through new content endlessly, but there’s enough to replace Reddit.

I might actually make posts here, too, since it’s likely to gain traction. On Reddit, there were only a select few smaller subs I’d generally post to, and even then, only rarely.

Exactly; if an instance goes down, then users can migrate to a new instance.

Yeah, GameFAQs would probably need to be on my list. And lots of other individual forums on the way, but GameFAQs’s thousands of forums were huge back in the 90s.

Or, at least, that was my perception as a child/teen.

I know some subreddits are just locking new submissions, not going private. Does this tool track that, or exclusively those that go private?

True; this is lazy journalism.

That said, it’s absolutely a real problem. Women aren’t safe participating in many online spaces because a minority of misogynists make it a toxic space for them.

It starts young, too. Girls just don’t show up when I make “gaming” spaces at school. They don’t feel welcome.

I get why journalists go to Twitter, too. It’s a lot easier to find and provide “receipts”. Women who post about their experiences are dismissed regularly with statements like “I don’t see it so you must be making it up,” completely missing the point that they don’t see it because women have been eliminated from these shared spaces already.

I tried streaming over wifi and it was a mess in my house. I’m going to install cables through my house to hopefully get this working. (It was already planned since the house is a terrible design for wifi, but it’s a bit of a higher priority now.)

I really want to have a Steam-deck-like experience, but I don’t game enough to warrant dropping that much cash on a dedicated device.

Or maybe I’ll just work some overtime and get a Steamdeck, lol.

Agreed on all points.

I’ll miss my niche subs that Lemmy/alternatives don’t have the userbase to support, like dedicated subs for each app/game/sub-genre of media, but for things that niche, Discord is a reasonable, if not ideal, alternative.

For all the “front-page”-style content, it seems like the Federated model is likely better than any centralized option could ever be, assuming it can scale and keep costs covered.

I’ll need to look into how to start these things; maybe if I make a space for my topics of interest it will encourage others to join?

Overall, I’m hopeful for the future, and happy to be off Reddit. My first day here has pretty much convinced me to delete my 12½ year old account, but I’ll wait until July 1st to see. Maybe they’ll retract all the API changes. (Although after the AMA, I put that at near 0% chance.)