The trump admins have both been a shitshow but realistically they’re just taking the problems this country has always had and is blasting them on full display, and now people are finally starting to realize this country has ALWAYS been a capitalist shithole.

Three big issues.

Usability: A lot of these alternative platforms are incredibly confusing for people who aren’t tech-savvy. You can’t expect most folks to really understand the idea of Lemmy instances for example. Bsky kind of hit the sweetspot of being super easy to use, offers not just familiar features but better features than its competitor (blocklists), while also being an open protocol. Though they’re FAR from perfect (their team is extremely questionable to say the least), and it doesn’t seem like the protocol itself is gaining traction.

Population: This is a self-defeating prophecy. We saw it with twitter to bluesky, and we’re JUST starting to see it with reddit to lemmy. The vast majority of people just won’t shift to platforms where the people they want to interact with aren’t present. They won’t move until they feel like they absolutely have to. People put off moving from the Nazi bar formerly known as twitter for literally a year - the site’s been nothing but a cesspool for ages now, but the vast majority of users couldn’t be bothered to moved to an alternative site until bsky got lucky. Hell, even now, so many people still stick to it because they’re afraid of losing engagement or some bullshit.

Algorithms: I HATE algorithmic feed bullshit, give me chronological 100% of the time, but frankly the vast majority of people have been spoonfed algorithmic feeds for at least a decade now. Going back to bluesky as an example (since it’s probably the most successful example of an alternative platform at the moment), it prioritizes the chronological feed, sure, but I’m actually amazed (and appalled) at how many people apparently only use the Discover tab. It’s a necessary evil until we can wean the general populace off of their instant gratification and endless scrolls.

Platforms and protocols should be tools first and foremost, sure, but communities should never be tolerant of fascists and nazis. Any viable platform should have, at the absolute bare minimum, enforced rules against hate speech, which is something that’s not remotely enforced on any big platform today.

Letting the right run rampant is why social media is in the state its in today, and a shift to open platforms is our chance to take these spaces back and show the right that they’re not welcome in society as a whole.

Say what you will about the site but it’s funny as fuck seeing these corps get clowned on the moment they try to join up

Seems like they got in a storage unit auction and immediately went to asking reddit about it LMAO

Like come on dude. I get being cautious about it, and being concerned about it getting traced back to them if it did leak online. But that’s game preservation gold right there.

I hope they at least saved a local copy before sending it back but I doubt it.

It’s fucking stupid but at least it’s something to get the apathetic types to actually give a shit for once, even if it’s for the most dogshit reason.

honestly one of those times I just don’t give a shit about the winner as long as the ratfuck loses. lmao get bent

Revolt looks promising as an open source discord clone but I haven’t looked too into it

It was so barebones at the time too. It’s actually bloated at this point and guilty of every mobile game sin, but it’s wild to see so many people still playing it. I still boot it up every now and then but haven’t gotten nearly as into it as some people have.

Though with that recent sale, it’s definitely time to abandon it for good.

Unless you’re playing a yakuza game LOL

Though their worst offenders are definitely the mid-2010’s tbf, except for Lost Judgment’s weird multi-input QTEs. Dead Souls in particular speeds them up so fast on higher difficulties that it’s basically impossible to hit them consistently unless you use the PS3 menu to buffer them

Let’s add a 4th person in there, someone who thinks they’re helping by doing nothing but yelling that the fire isn’t allowed to burn things

This is absolutely one of the reasons they’re pushing this garbage so hard. It’s VERY easy to manipulate as a propaganda tool.

You can already see that most of these tools lean right because their userbase does - leftists don’t touch this garbage because of numerous ethical concerns as-is. Add more astroturfing on top of that, and now it’s just a straight up automated fascist mouthpiece.

Of course it’s right-wing, lemmy.world is literally just a liberal hub LOL, its no different than reddit’s awful default subs.

Clearly. That’s not a good thing.

I haven’t majorly fucked up any recent systems (almost botched the steam deck once or twice but nothing that required a reinstall), but god 10 years ago I probably reset my arch dual boot like five times lmao

I’ve been using it for a few months now. Works just fine, doesn’t do anything fancy but it doesn’t need to. Filter rule creation is pretty limited, and the desktop client doesn’t play well with my VPN for some reason, but otherwise it works fine.

It’s alright but I’ve already stopped using it. I could never get it to the exact angle I want to use it, plus the mount on the deck itself needs to come off in order to use a dock.

It’s sturdy and secure, and it does exactly what it’s meant to, but I found I was having more arm and wrist strain while using it because of the weird mount. The lowest angle I could get it is still too high up and too far away to be comfortable. I wouldn’t really recommend it.

biblically-accurate game controller