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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, sure, but that doesn’t change the fact that these two developers, with their decisions in moderating that one instance, have dragged down the reputation of the entire platform. They’re asking for donations because they lost the donations they were already getting.

  And instead of questioning why that is and addressing it, they’re asking for more.

  This doesn’t inspire trust in them. I trust their ideology not to mess with the platform, what I don’t trust is their competence if they can’t stop hemorrhaging donation money by refusing to deal with the biggest wart on the platform.

  More importantly, just from a straight development perspective, this whole operation is a way too flimsy if it’s depending on these two people, alone, forever. What happens if they finally get another developer that really knows Rust and wants to join the project but doesn’t “fit in”? How are they actually going to expand the team so this project can grow and not be so dependent on them when they have the reputation they do?

  If the community were going to fork it, they would have forked it by now. I don’t think there are enough people around that can manage a fork of this platform as it exists, so we are tied to them. And I don’t think I like that. I would like to see this platform expand beyond them, but the current course doesn’t seem to indicate that will ever happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternatives are not even close in quality.

  Yes and we can go donate to those alternatives instead and help build them up.

  I completely divorced of their political views, I don’t think I want to donate to them simply because I don’t believe they’re doing a good job managing the platform. Donations aren’t just down, they lost those donations. And when confronted with this fact, and told that they should probably change some things if they want to keep getting donations, they’ve staunchly refused.

  This does not inspire faith in the development team.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Freeloading where? They can be donating to the instance they are on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How does someone know what the main community is, whatever the platform? Looking at the number of subscribers and active members.

  I don’t disagree but this is also kind of sad. We’re just recreating the same issue on Reddit of “definitive” subreddits controlled by whichever moderators were there first, and once a mass of people settles there, it becomes virtually impossible for smaller alternatives to grow.

  You’re also basically just telling people to go to whichever community happens to be on Lemmy.world. Which means centralization on one instance, which is the opposite of how this place was sold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Moreover, they’re going to want an emulator that can be managed alongside the rest of the museum software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like saying what’s the point of the air and space museum if they’re not actually flying the planes.

  They’re not going to use the original hardware and put wear on them. That’s a standard part of archiving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The official Nintendo Museum appears to be emulating SNES games on a Windows PC, which is slightly embarrassing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the record, this is exactly what any museum would do, because they’re not going to actually run any of the older hardware. Because that hardware is part of their collection, and it behoves them not to put wear on them.

  Also because emulators can be managed remotely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All the Disney+ films and TV shows that have been deleted from the service⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the vaulting was significantly less painful than this.

  Many of these movies and shows were released as Disney plus exclusives in the last 4 years.

  Meaning, there are no physical copies anywhere, and there is nowhere but the high seas to find this content now.

  As a kid, I never gave a shit about the vault, because it’s not like they came to your house and took the VHS away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with active users on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The notion of “summer reddit” went hand in hand with the “moms basement” sayings, and even “touch grass” in a way:

  Namely all of them ignore the simple fact we all have the internet in our pockets and can be chronically online and actually out in the world doing things at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened with active users on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why does removing them from the site also mean cutting their user count from Active Users though?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  after some further research, it became apparent that Discord staff could save a significant amount of money by changing S3 providers. The new bucket was set up, but when the time came to make the change NC refused to do it, even though he was not the one footing the bill.

  There’s a conspicuous absence of explain why they wouldn’t do it. What were their actual concerns? Did they not voice them or are they just being withheld?

  NC refused to join the Discord to talk about solutions in real-time.

  Why was this a requirement?

  Did we vent in private? Sure.

  And what did you say?

  Did we dox or threaten? Fucking hell, no! And frankly I’m LIVID at even the suggestion that we did.

  Well something clearly happened if he’s family was brought into it, so if you’re going to skimp on the details, I’m not sure how I’m supposed to believe that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ROMhacking.net shuts down after 20 years; database has been moved to the Internet Archive⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a romhacking site, it wont have the actual ROMs, just the patches. It never would have survived 20 years if it had been hosting ROMs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re all feeling sequel fatigue – but Hollywood’s giving us Shrek 5⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some will argue that sequel or franchise fatigue is not really a thing, in that it is immediately disproved when a hit like Bad Boys: Ride or Die comes along. But it’s hard not to feel fatigued when original films are just croutons in a Hollywood buzzword salad: made entirely of sequels and prequels and existing IPs and brands and reboots and remakes.

  So basically the evidence suggests it isn’t a actually a thing, but you’re going to continue to imply it is?

  The whole article just reeks of projection. The writer feels something, and insists the rest of the world feels it too, to spite the evidence to the contrary.