BlueSky has money. We don’t.
People are going from one corporate-controlled social media platform to another corporate-controlled social media platform. You and I both know that’s the problem, but to the average user, they’re going to go to whatever has a large corporation spending a lot of money to tell them that their platform is the next big thing.
BlueSky has the one thing Fedi doesn’t: a large advertising budget. Hate to say it, but we have lost.
I’ve been trying to inject any life at all into !fgc@lemmy.world and !mahjong@lemmy.nerdcore.social
I used reddit for two things: news, and niche subcommunities around small hobbies and fandoms.
We’ve got the former here, but I don’t know if we’d ever have enough of a critical mass to sustain the latter. And that sucks for me, because I no longer have a good space for that stuff, but I still don’t ever want to go back to reddit now.
You lost me at the first panel.
They already made Chrono Trigger 2, but I won’t blame you for forgetting it.
Given that SE doesn’t seem to want to be at all faithful with their remakes, 8 actually makes the most sense as a game they can and should make big changes to.
Aren’t they needed to run all the 32-bit games that are on Steam?
Normally these kind of announcements come with some kind of explanation. The lack of one reflects very poorly on Mozilla and leads me to assume the worst.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For once, it doesn’t sound like Nintendo had anything to do with this one. Seems to have been some kind of internal conflict within the community.
Learned that the people I thought were my friends… weren’t. Set off an awful chain of events that cost me my dreams.
I feel like don’t know how to make friends anymore, and I don’t know how to trust people.
Certain levels in Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World end with Mario collecting a ? orb rather than the usual goal. During speedruns, it’s customary to shout “Orb!” upon completing these levels.
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