ElectroVagrant
@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
Another traveler of the wireways.
- Comment on Is this Mastodon? 1 week ago:
Yes and no. Mastodon instances can show Lemmy community posts in a clunky looking way, as they treat communities like a group account which boosts every post.
If someone one Mastodon is familiar with Lemmy, they can technically also follow individual people to ensure their feed looks a little less awkward. However, given the default limited character count of many Mastodon instances, it’s still going to display as the title and link to the Lemmy post at best, if I remember right.
On the other hand, Mastodon people can post to Lemmy communities and reply to comments in threads here, but it also tends to come out rough, especially if they’re unaware of the formatting differences. If you’ve ever seen a really long title that abruptly cuts off mid-sentence, there’s a good chance that was someone posting from a Mastodon account, unaware that it’s better to make a brief opening sentence as title, then an empty line followed by body text, to best fit the formatting here.
Similarly if you see someone replying to a comment starting with an @ mention to the person they’re directly replying to, chances are it may be someone from Mastodon, as replies there include @ mentions by default. Also due to federation weirdness, I’m honestly not sure if they have to keep that mention or not for it to work properly, think I’ve seen it work without, but it’s honestly easier to make an account on a Lemmy instance to participate than deal with awkward federation issues that come up between it and Mastodon.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
Mainly games built for replaying, so arcade puzzlers like Super Hexagon/Tetris Effect/Mixolumia/Equaline/etc, roguelikes such as FTL/BrogueCE/etc, or strangesims like Powder Toy or Vilmonic. Although even with those it’s more occasional, like when I’m uncertain of what I’m wanting to do.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
That’s a fun mix, Gemini Rue was a pleasant surprise to see!
You might also enjoy Primordia given that.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
obligatory but entirely sincere addition for those looking for palate cleansing games: Outer Wilds
and for those after a variety of others, in particularly no order, that may or may not come up as much:
- The Powder Toy
- Heaven’s Vault
- Vilmonic
- Intraquartz
- Interior Worlds
- Mixolumia
- Thousand Threads
- Mu Cartographer
- Hypnagogia: Boundless Dreams
- Jazzpunk
- Crossniq+
- BrogueCE
- Heart&Slash
- Umurangi Generation w/ Macro
- NeonXSZ
- Paradise Killer
But this is all from a flipside of a flipside, so each is as likely to appeal as repel, quick slide to catch clicks and clunks
- Comment on How does Xbox backward-compatibility works? 2 weeks ago:
No, since there is only the PowerPC bits on the disc, there is no way to play the game on a newer x86 cpu without downloading the x86 bits
Something worth adding here, if you happen to know, would be if the games still work after download & install while offline. Microsoft’s been rather inconsistent with this over the years (which is part of why Xbox One fell behind PS4 at launch).
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
There have been a few titles that I think reach that potential, but most of them are quite old now.
Don’t leave us hanging! Quality endures the ages, well, mostly.
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
maybe CDPR (hopefully the cp2077 release was just a fluke but we’ll see).
Cyberpunk 2077 was Witcher 1 repeat tbh, people forgot Witcher 1 was a mess at launch since they patched it up a bunch and some other stuff to try to make amends
- Comment on Making peace with liking very few games? 2 weeks ago:
Saw where you mentioned being into fighting games, action games, & shmups, so I wonder which games you find yourself bouncing off of more.
Along with reasons other have mentioned that are similar to my own (many games demanding a lot of time, better finding what games really click with me, etc.), I’ve also been put off by other details (hyper-monetization, big budget photorealistic & cinematic styles, etc.). Personally it’s less being into very few games, and more being into more specific kinds of game design and creative style, which are sometimes harder to find.
Like not being into drawn out progression systems immediately narrows one’s options pretty significantly, especially among many recent games.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 1 month ago:
fwiw this is poking more fun at the other person that said this in reply to you, which is why I spelled it yours (and another person’s) way
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Hey speaking of, while !games@lemmy.world is a great example, if you’re not finding similar communities for your interest, feel free to post over in !general@lemmy.world for what Zombiepirate’s describing.
Hobby without a community around here? Just not really sure if an existing community is open to non-news posts? General’s got ya covered.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Going against the post’s spirit, but…If you’re not finding a community for your interests (or only finding abandoned/inactive ones), and don’t want to create one (or try to get existing ones going), you’re welcome over in !general@lemmy.world. Post about whatever, find likeminded folks, then if ya think there’s enough of ya, you can make a separate community without it being one person posting into a void.
Also there’s !justpost@lemmy.world. Similar vibes.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 1 month ago:
Their other comment elaborates on this more:
Until the link /c/books shows any user, with only one click, the aggregate of all “books” communities in a single place, without subscribing or even logging in. Then lemmy will stagnate because it is failing to live up to its promise of federated decentralization
They want a link like /c/books to work like multireddits did on reddit to collect together books-related communities for improved browsing and discovery.
- Comment on you can say segs on the internet 1 month ago:
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- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 1 month ago:
When preserving culture is criminal, or punishable, ya might want to reevaluate your laws
In the meantime, people are gonna do it anyway 'cause why ask permission to back up and preserve your own stuff? And when the law finally catches up, some will be grateful to those that did so despite the earlier wrongful laws that tried to discourage them.
- Comment on tall, dark & handsome 2 months ago:
Walnut a.k.a. Nutcracker
- Comment on Unicycling, Hulahooping, playing the Ukelele and playing the Kazoo at the same time. Absolute madlad. 2 months ago:
Unilulalezooing is truly an art.
- Comment on How can I unmod a user? 2 months ago:
If the option isn’t appearing, it likely means the user created the community. In that case you could try DMing them and sorting out the matter if they’re still active or, in the event they’re not, contacting the admins and I think they may be able to handle it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s also some of their business strategy, e.g. Super Mario 3D Stars limited release, low production runs of Amiibo, and so forth.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
There’s this for corporations across the board:
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- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 2 months ago:
But isopropyl alcohol and enough elbow grease will get it off, if it’s just a coating on plastic.
Do beware, however, that you may want to dilute the alcohol to some degree, or simply use a lower concentration form of it. Too strong and it may eat at the underlying plastic just as much as the coating and ruin it.
unrelated
are you getting a cut from kagi for writing that instead of search? gimme the deets on that deal if so! 😛
- Comment on Something sticky has invaded my life 2 months ago:
If the Otterbox case had a rubberized coating on it to try to improve grip, and with it being 6 years old, there’s a possibility it’s the culprit. You could try ditching the case for a little while, and/or getting a new case and swapping them out, clean the surfaces again and see if you feel the stickiness again after handling your phone and other stuff.
However, normally with those rubberized coatings, the degradation is more immediately apparent and you’d be more apt to avoid touching anything else afterward. Also in my experience I don’t recall it transferring to other surfaces much, but then again when I dealt with it I noticed ASAP and cleaned my hands right away.
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- Comment on Twitter's UK userbase has been absolutely decimated since Musk took over 2 months ago:
From login/paywalled Financial Times article that this is citing:
Data from Similarweb shows active daily users in the UK have dropped from 8mn a year ago to only around 5.6mn now, with more than a third of that fall coming since the summer riots.
- Comment on Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity? 6 months ago:
I think while some of this may be people being people (i.e. tendency to only discuss issues/problems vs accomplishments/solutions), I think there’s also a technical element to it as well in Lemmy’s case.
Up to the latest release of Lemmy (as of writing this is v0.19.4), admins couldn’t adjust the default sort setting, which was Active. Read the docs on the sort setting and Active does what it says, surfaces those posts with recent commenting activity (taking into account score as well).
So you get this unfortunate mix of: people gravitate to discussing negative stuff, people tend not to change default settings (since despite defaults being Active, we can change these if so inclined), and the default sort settings surface whatever is being most discussed/commented on, resulting in this sort of negativity feedback loop you’ve observed.
I noticed and posted about this a few months ago, have tried to upvote and comment on less negatively-focused posts occasionally, but I think this may be an interesting example of a small scale systemic issue as it takes more of us doing similar to address what’s being encountered. However, as more instances update to v0.19.4, I’ll be interested in seeing if admins decide to switch away from the Active sort setting to try to address this in their own way.
I don’t know what sort setting may be better for instances to run with instead, but I’m glad they now have the option. In the meantime I think it’s worth reminding people that they currently have the option to change their default sort settings to something different to try to see different kinds of posts. Personally I switch between New and Scaled to see a variety of posts beyond many of the regular doom and gloom posts.
- Comment on Whatever happened to lemmy.film? 6 months ago:
I don’t know the specifics of what may have happened with Lemmy.film, so we’ll have to see if someone else may know.
As to what happens to posts to “their” communities, my rough understanding is that with the host server gone, federation either doesn’t occur or maybe attempts to reach the host but simply stops after some number of attempts. Upon failure I think it simply collects the posts on your home server/instance’s copy of the community.
Not sure what would happen if a new instance was spun up of Lemmy.film either from a backup or in general, but I’d imagine there’s some settings/adjustments that may be calibrated to prevent it getting a backlog of posts dumped on it causing it to get bogged down or crash.
As to questions specifically about the Lemmy software, you may try !lemmy_support@lemmy.ml or !lemmy@lemmy.ml, think either one would be okay for this.
- Comment on If you find a way, please tell us! 8 months ago:
i’ll tell ya how to undo this, but it’ll involve going over their heads, and you won’t believe this but then you’ll be…
you ready? you really can't undo this one
sturgeon general’d
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
Thanks for elaborating!
I think I better see what you meant now. Potential degradations in processing ability possibly from a combination of cognitive overload and exhaustion from the volumes of information encountered, both of which may be more quickly reached from a mixture of a lack of self-regulation, not knowing & exceeding one’s limits, and inadequate education and practice regarding the former two alongside reasoning abilities to more effectively navigate info without as often being overloaded/exhausted.
- Comment on "Learned Helplessness" & the Tech Literacy Crisis | Internet Analysis [25:54] - TiffanyFerg 8 months ago:
This is just a hypothesis, but I believe that one of the roots of the problem is a lower ability to retrieve information, caused by increased exposure to advertisement.
I’m not sure I follow where you’re coming from here. Is the idea that over-exposure to advertisement is processed the same as being provided general information, reducing people’s inclination to seek out information independently, despite the fact that advertising is only the provision of specific, narrow information?
