Yozul

I think that the Lemmy equivalents to big subreddits will be centralized around a few larger instances and they’ll come to dominate the all timeline, but more niche things seem like they can crop up anywhere. My favorite subreddits were always the smaller ones anyway, so federation will be important for me.

Also, it matters that there are a few big instances instead of just one. If one goes full spez the others can take up the slack until a smaller general purpose instance can take its place. For example, if beehaw does go nuts and just keep defederating until it’s completely siloed instead of this being a temporary measure until moderation is more under control, then I can just make another account somewhere else and these communities will become less important. I don’t think that’s likely, but it’s a problem that solves itself in a federated system.

Depends on where you live and what service provider you use. There is quite a bit of overlap between European and American cell frequencies, but it’s not something you can just assume will work.

Soooooo, spez plans to get kicked out of his office for not paying rent then?

I know, right? Next thing you know I’ll end up touching grass or something.

This appears to have somehow ended up in the wrong spot. I hadn’t even clicked on this thread before, and yet here’s my reply to a different one. Ah well.

kbin being more centralized is just an unfortunate accident of timing. I was only first publicly released two months ago, and from what I understand there’s still not much help available for starting up a new instance of your own, and the lone developer over there has been busy trying not to let the kbin.social server catch fire.

Also Lemmy has been kicking around as a hobby project for a couple years. kbin.social, the flagship kbin instance, was first opened in April. They haven’t even made tools for starting new instances easily yet, and went from a few hundred users to tens of thousands of users basically overnight. It’s a miracle that kbin.social is even still running at all.

It’s weird being part of broad communities like technology or games again. On reddit I unsubbed all the default subs and subscribed to more niche things like 3D printing or weird games. It’s quite a change to see people talking about things like mainstream AAA games. Intellectually I knew that a lot of people had to get hyped about the latest Bethesda game or Apple products or whatever, but I think part of me stopped believing it, because it still surprises me whenever I see it.

I absolutely refuse to buy any game that requires being online for single player. That is a line I will never cross.

I’m 45. I thought it looked terrible back then, I still think it looks terrible now. A Link to the Past looks a thousand times better than Ocarina of Time. I’ll take good pixel art over polygon counts so low you can count them on your fingers any day, and that was absolutely my opinion in the 90s just as much as it is now. I recognize that I have always been in the minority with that opinion, I just wish people like you would stop telling me I don’t understand. I do. I just still don’t like it.

Ocarina of Time. I thought 3D games from that era had terrible controls and ugly graphics even by the standards of the time, and that’s only gotten worse over the years. Plus I just wasn’t really ever all that into the Zelda formula from the time between A Link to the Past and Breath of the Wild. For me Breath of the Wild felt like a return to form after decades of mediocrity.

I don’t even really think Ocarina of Time is bad, exactly. I just resent the fact that it feels like everybody I know holds it up as the greatest game of all time when in my opinion it’s practically the definition of mid.