I love everything that Fedi stands for, I wouldn’t still be here if I didn’t.

But it’s hard to shake the feeling that I’m mostly posting out into the void. I’m not optimistic about Fedi’s future, I think at this rate Bluesky is going to win even though they’re clearly only paying lip service to federation. Maybe if they can demonstrate that their federation works I’d consider trying a third party server, but it’s clearly not ready yet, and leaves a sour taste in my mouth as yet another corporate thing pretending not to be.

Ever since I swore off Reddit after the API fiasco, and ever since I left the one Discord server where I used to feel like I fit in, it’s felt harder and harder to find alternative places where I can talk about my most niche interests, because nowhere else is big enough for it to be likely I’ll find anyone else who also wants to talk about those same things.

I don’t think Fedi will ever be that for me. The one thing I can say for Cohost is that at the rate it was going, I was able to find a lot more posts relating to my hobbies and fandoms, and I kinda regret that I didn’t post more and lurk less.

It just sucks to feel like there’s nowhere else on today’s dying internet to go that will suit my needs.

Assuming you’re playing proprietary games, I’m not sure why Steam also being proprietary is a step too far for you.

Anyway if you’re playing games with low enough spec requirements to run on an iGPU, they’ll just run, no extra steps needed. Distro shouldn’t matter either.

Damn. Hadn’t actually posted there much but I did lurk quite a bit.

Just feels like every attempt at alternative social media is dying as the internet shrinks to a few corporate websites that control everything.

When I point out that it’s bad for Afghanistan to “go broke”

Except that isn’t what OP actually said. Now who’s having a rich disagreement with people in their head?

This thread started with vilifying the Taliban, you responded with “oh you want people to starve?” Obviously, this is not a direct response to what they actually said.

All anyone said was that the Taliban is bad, and you’re very weirdly up in arms about that.

This is an example of non-Euclidean geometry. In this non-Euclidean space, it is a triangle.

Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - Goofy clip of the week

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Friend came to visit from out of town, played some casual 3S for a little while. Also managed to rope him into trying out Waku Waku 7 and Twinkle Star Sprites as I wanted to show off some fun hidden gems in my collection.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City/IRL mahjong - Remember when I said I was done grinding this game mode and wouldn’t do another run?

Splatoon 3 - Haven’t touched Salmon Run since the last Big Run and I’m clearly rusty. Put up a 173, which is gold, but I know that gold target isn’t actually much, especially on this map. Still can’t kill a damn Triumvirate, which is what I really wanted.

Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - Goofy clip of the week

Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike - Friend came to visit from out of town, played some casual 3S for a little while. Also managed to rope him into trying out Waku Waku 7 and Twinkle Star Sprites as I wanted to show off some fun hidden gems in my collection.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City/IRL mahjong - Remember when I said I was done grinding this game mode and wouldn’t do another run?

Splatoon 3 - Haven’t touched Salmon Run since the last Big Run. Was able to put up a 154 right away, but I know that gold target isn’t actually much. Still can’t kill a damn Triumvirate.

In order to get more people on Fedi, we have to get more people on Fedi. People will go whereever everybody else already is. That’s the only thing keeping Twitter alive, even though almost everyone there will openly admit they hate it, no one will actually leave Twitter because everyone else is still on Twitter.

It’s a chicken-and-egg problem that I don’t think Fedi can actively do anything to solve. Or rather, I think it’s too late to solve. If there’s any competitor that has a chance, BlueSky has established a much bigger userbase in far less time, and that’s enough momentum to potentially get there. Anyone who’s leaving Twitter will go to BlueSky before they ever look at Fedi.

If this can dual-boot, that could be really handy.

I bought a Miyoo Mini Plus on sale last year and ended up liking it so much that I wish I’d bought a more expensive model with analog sticks. Meanwhile my Steam Deck gathers dust because it’s just way too bulky, I grew up on a Game Boy Color and want something that fits in my pocket.

The ultimate dream for me would be if/when someone gets SteamOS running on something this size.

Under Night In-Birth II [Sys:Celes] - I WON A FIVE MAN BRACKET WOOOOO! Also played some Skullgirls casuals for a little while after the bracket ended.

Mahjong Soul/Riichi City - :(

Splatoon 3 - Heavy Edit got shot. The rest of the changes seem fine, but as always I’m just annoyed that they don’t do more.

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Rollback is confirmed, but no crossplay sadly.

This just feels so late that they should’ve just waited for Switch 2. If Switch 2 is a perfect port with crossplay it would be a day 1 buy, but I don’t know if it’s worth picking this up without it.

Well put. Even if we assumed Facebook had the best of intentions - which they damn well don’t - it needs to be pointed out that other servers get defederated for far, far, far less than what they allow to happen on their platforms. Their moderation is abhorrent, which makes it outright unsafe to federate with them.

Well you should care, because Facebook is doing real harm to those people.

Even if we assumed Facebook had the best of intentions - but if you truly believe that I have a bridge to sell you - here’s another perspective to consider:

Poorly moderated servers regularly get defederated for far, far, far less than what goes on on Facebook’s platforms. Facebook not only platforms bigotry, they pretty much support and endorse it.

That really doesn’t answer my question. Why did you feel the need to click onto !nintendo@lemmy.world when you could just keep scrolling? New is going to be full of things that don’t personally appeal to you, you don’t need to go around announcing it on everything you see.

I’m seriously asking you: Why come here?

Do you talk just to annoy people then?

Buddy, I’m telling you that nobody asked. You don’t have to come to !nintendo@lemmy.world to inform us all that you don’t care about Nintendo, why would you even think that necessary to tell us? Did you expect anyone to care?