I do appreciate the transparency from the Lemmy devs and re their views (whether only alleged or actual) on controversial topics, I think the issue is not in the software itself and in how the devs themselves are using it. However given the nature of the fediverse and how Lemmy is programmed, you can use the software however you like, as we do here on Beehaw.

Similarly, we can look to the “death of the author” debate to settle this. I’m not going to discuss what that is and what it isn’t here (as that isn’t the purpose of this post or this comment), however, I will state that my definition of “death of the author” involves critically enjoying a piece of media despite its author’s bad views if and only if those views aren’t inherent to the work and they aren’t profiting off of my consumption of the work itself. Beehaw is like that. Sure the creators of the software are involved in a controversy, but the way the devs use their own software is not an inherent feature of the software. Beehaw has a fantastic setup and ethos, so I find my home here. Sure, there’s not that many specific communities, but that’s what federation is for.

Another analogy, however accurate (no analogy is perfect): people lobby governments with money to get them to pass problematic legislation, but people still participate in the economy.

TL;DR: The way the devs use the software should not impede our use of the software given that the devs’ views are not inherent to any use case of the software.

I think one of the reasons I’m playing this game differently than I usually do (which is to just use a small set of 'Mons that I caught early on) because I’m trying to min-max my type advantages. The game (and the internet) make it somewhat easy to do that, but it takes a boatload of time. Another reason could be that I don’t want to go in underleveled and have my entire team squashed in 30 seconds.

The open world exploration is nice and all, but it’s so empty. Contrast that with Breath of the Wild that has so much environmental storytelling along with side quests that help you actually do stuff in those open areas. Excuse me for comparing Legend of Zelda to Pokémon, but both have released open world games and one is clearly designed more thoughtfully.

I am, but currently, I’ve only been getting smalls and extra-smalls, not mediums or larges. Perhaps it’s the location of the raid battles that makes them low-level 🤷

I’ve been trying to explore here and there and I’m doing the same thing with catching one of every 'mon I come across (with the exception of the Terra types). I’ve been doing Terra raids as well as trying to fight trainers when I can but since the game makes it easy to ignore trainers and with my upbringing of always being stopped by trainers at the worst time, I tend to skip them. As for rotation, I’ve really only been rotating my team based on type (e.g. I used my fire starter to beat Artazon, I used Fairy 'mons to beat Giacomo, etc.).

I wonder if it would be possible to set up something that 307’s to a static page when I’m not live

To be fair (and I might’ve said this here on Beehaw/Lemmy although my memory isn’t serving me well atm), I have said that I do want to get into self-hosting stuff sometime in the future but I don’t currently have the resources to do so. Currently just seeing what self-hosted stuff there is right now for when I am able to get something set up. Also I would be open to starting my own instance as a large channel anyway. I’ve also thought about a single-user Lemmy instance that federates and is sort of a forum/discussion space for my content.

Re PeerTube, as a creator, is it worth it to try an find an instance that suits my content right now?

Hmm, it looks like people have “live” sites up that are at least reachable and they aren’t streaming currently. Did I misread how Owncast works, or is there something else going on here with these sites?

As for running it during my stream (once I move out of my current apartment), I could have my laptop running Owncast possibly.

As someone who is already in debt because of a bad month with work, I’m not sure if I’m able to put out for a VPS. And as for the “server” thing, what I meant was I don’t have a computer I can dedicate to near 100% uptime for running the instances I’d want to.

I do hope that Tumblr gets on ActivityPub soon because I do love the idea of interacting with Tumblr posts here on beehaw or on Mastodon, or whatever other thing uses the protocol.

I would start using Owncast however, a) my current lease at my apartment prohibits me running a server (because internet is included in the rent), and b) I don’t have any kind of computer to run a server on for Owncast.

Singleplayer games have no reason to require an internet connection to be able to play the game.

Absolutely not. I trust Meta with my data as far as I can throw any of their workers, and last time I checked (which tbf was in high school, but hey, not much has changed on this front), I can only lift like 40 lbs (again, it was high school and I’m trying to make a joke).

I’m personally unfamiliar with those (had to google HPMOR actually), so maybe? Although I’m not one of the site mods, I heard no mention of these when the site was created/rising in popularity.

TL;DR: yes

It does require an invite, although us over at Beehaw moved over from Tildes.