For what it’s worth I personally find fallout 3 soulsucking. It’s got interesting stuff throughout but it feels randomly scattered into a disjointed and confusing world.

New Vegas is a lot better at making the area feel like a cohesive environment. You understand petty easily why people are where they are and move along the routes they do. We’re practically a cult so I’ll spare you further recommendation.

If you have to ask, you’re headed in the right direction.

Meta’s interests as a corporate entity are inherently incompatible with the goals behind the creation of a decentralized and federated service. I do not believe they are able or willing to act in good faith, and I don’t think their presence should be tolerated. Personally, I did not jump ship from Reddit to be reconnected with the likes of Facebook or Instagram. The entire effort feels to me like a panic response to the notion that there are people like myself not being shown what Meta wants seen, and they can stay mad about it.

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On the other hand, I think people should be the arbiters of the content they view. I don’t get the notion of browsing /all and then being upset at what you find there, it’s just a raw firehose of what people are up to on the internet. There is a value in letting people consume the content they want, where and how they want it. I’m sure someone would be happy to be linked in to this larger ecosystem. There’s a lemmy instance dedicated to mirroring reddit content and I don’t see the appeal of that, but more power to the people who get use from it.

The nature of the fediverse and activitypub is that we can’t stop Meta from making use of this platform. We’re going to have to handle this situation by proving that we have something different and perhaps better than anything Meta can offer. But I won’t stay in a space where their size and influence is permitted to dominate all conversation, it’s already slightly jarring to hear people talk as if lemmy.world were the de-facto center of the lemmyverse.

Out of everything they could have chosen, I could not have expected that. It’s a poor choice but I still laughed heartily.

Beehaw does not take the standard approach to moderation. The biggest problem is that their team is literally like four people and the tools don’t exist yet for them to handle the amount of users and content that come from federating with larger instances. I understand they’re also trying to create a community where moderation is more of a collaborative process than a set of blindly applied rules, and that requires like-minded people. What some people don’t particularly understand is, that set of like minded people are typical targets for bad actors on the rest of the internet, and they’re interested in a place where that’s not a constant concern.

I’m not the target audience for that community, but they’ve said defederation is a temporary measure, and people need to just let them cook.

People want different things out of the fediverse, and I’ve noticed some people aren’t terribly interested in recognizing that. Lemmygrad and Beehaw are very interesting case studies in people using this technology to create a space that serves their needs and wants rather than the lowest common denominator.

sh.itjust.works has defederated from lemmygrad.ml. The hard fact is that you cannot view or participate in their communities from this instance.

The Pinks and Greens uniform would like a word…

I know this is a common misconception about the states, but I actually don’t have to wear ballistic clothing unless I find myself in Los Angeles for some reason. I’m generally far more concerned with what the weather is doing.

Absolutely Barbaric

I’ve been getting the best results by toggling the page between posts and comments. This forces the UI elements to reload and subscribe becomes a real button. It won’t update, though: I’ll have to click it and then reload the page, and generally it appears either as joined or subscribe pending. I intend to go through and fiddle with the latter at a later time, as you can force the matter by repeatedly leaving and re-subscribing, but I’ve been made to understand this is a server load issue.

Thanks to both of you, good to know the problem is being worked on.

I’ll give that a try. Communities with “Subscription Pending” still seem to show up in my subscribed feed, which is good enough for me, for the time being.

Edit: This works! A curious bug, but one I can work around easily enough. I’m sure this will cause some confusion, so hopefully it’s ironed out soon.

Thank you, I absolutely hate it. I’m going to go vomit into my own eyes now.

For me it’s a combination of being very careful with what I subscribe to, and a lot of the news subreddits putting the text of the article in the post. Makes it near impossible to justify not reading the text rather than jumping to the comments, and it’s guaranteed to be in a decently readable format (unlike most news websites, for some reason)

NCD already being here is how I knew I chose the right instance

This is sh.itjust.works, which makes me a sh.ithead

E: I stole this from somewhere in the wild and wish I had taken note of who came up with it

PatientGamers, one of the communities that got me to make the jump off of reddit. It’s a games discussion subreddit community with a focus on games that aren’t new or currently super popular. Not as far back as the retrogaming enthusiasts, though.

NCD is unique to me because it seems to hold shitposters of every stripe and from every walk. Being truly non-credible requires a working knowledge of credibility, so it all balances out.

I’m looking forward to starfield because there’s nothing that can show me that will make me expect more than a bog-standard Bethesda RPG, in space. I am excited about the nasapunk style and the ship customization looks like it could be fun, but anything beyond that will be a pleasant surprise. There’s supposed to be record-setting amounts of recorded dialogue in that game so I’m hoping that will raise the bar for voiced character interaction.