rob299

joined 11 months ago
[–] rob299 2 points 11 months ago

This is not a good thing for Linux users, but it is for Windows users. It'l make using the internet for basic tasks more seamless. and I think this is generally what this is going for. Not to make it seamless, but to restrict, but make it seem seamless.

[–] rob299 10 points 11 months ago

If I wanted to see ads I would go on youtube or like kotaku or something.

[–] rob299 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

ok, but what about the fact that most of the instances have policies meant to protect these groups, which happens to be most of them if not all of them? Since it is a federated service alot of the instance most users use, will usually defederate from other instances not moderating to their standards once they are aware, but sadly not all of them. That's the point of federation so that one person can't control every single detail of what happens for their own gains. That's why the users on Mastodon broke away from Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.

Sure there are going to be instances that just so happen to exist that might not moderate for or even, appreciate these groups as much, at that point if you were to sign up to such an instance, you might want to switch instances to avoid such content.

Would I go as far as to say, that it is unsafe by design? No i'd say that the fediverse is meant to be safer by design for all people from all sorts of backgrounds with different viewpoints. and depending on where you join, then that will determine how safe the fediverse is for you as a person.

Did you know that if you find an instance that's not within your local instance while prowsing and searching say Mastodon, that you can block that instance from showing up entirely?

also that marginalized groups of people had even had better experiences on the fediverse than on Twitter and other places as some seem to even claimed on your own post here.

[–] rob299 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

just a preference of eating them seperately on the same day together if it is healthy vs on different days

[–] rob299 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I am proud that one of my posts on this community has reached 100 upvotes.

[–] rob299 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I did say ai. I said

"ai, but the bots." People in this thread were actually legitly saying their stance on bots. and also on ai. which, if I'm wrong then i'm wrong, I accept the critisism. personally this post could be a meme at this point. 27 downvotes, that's crazy on Lemmy. I hadn't seen a post on this communitywith as many, not sure if that's a record or not. for this community.

edit: now 26 and if any changes further, then that's where the number is .

[–] rob299 1 points 11 months ago

ah makes sense

[–] rob299 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How did this post get nearly 200 upvotes but fewer comments, then an average post with 75-100 upvotes I mean I get this this news is shocking because it's Samsung not apple, so it is a new leak regarding Gogole, but sheesh a lot of things this week was just about as 'shocking'

The numbers are impressive, so i'm not necesarilly complaining, but those numbers caught my eye. congratulations op

[–] rob299 2 points 11 months ago

I am proud that one of my posts managed to get to 100 upvotes.

[–] rob299 5 points 11 months ago

How much money are these companies sitting on, and yet they are still capping peoples wifi down to 1tb, which is a good amount acually but nothings changed for years in many areas regarding data caps, unless you have more money or happen to be in a good u.s state with competition for internet, like Ohio.

[–] rob299 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

very true, i'm supportive of poorer areas getting internet service myself. The point of the internet was to be a free resource, supported by donations when it was invented. Google deserves to lose it's control that it's had and token advantage of for the last 8-7 years they have no right to have as much control. Same with ISPs, just because they so happen to own the pipes we use and with little competition.

[–] rob299 0 points 11 months ago

actually I see what some of you mean, regarding bots can kill communities, because real users know what stories are worth sharing. When bots do it right though, i still believe it drives up conversation when people aren't posting, when real users engage in conversation in the comments and talk about the article that the bot shared. Which was my major point for bots, but not to really replace real users. which I feel some of you thought I meant it to that degree, of which I did not.

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An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible.

tech/gaming news related communities:

  1. [email protected] Keep up with the latest technology news
  2. [email protected] Keep up with the latest fediverse updates
  3. [email protected]
    Linux content, could be news or something random
  4. !gaming[email protected] Keep up with the latest gaming news content

fun and amusement communities:

  1. [email protected] random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name.
  2. [email protected] ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions.
  3. [email protected] post or consume some wholesome material.
  4. [email protected] a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content.

Lemmy help and support

  1. [email protected] For if you're really really new to Lemmy.
  2. [email protected] free costumer support for Lemmy?
  3. [email protected] learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.
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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rob299 to c/[email protected]
 

An easily accessible list of communities with links and inputted descriptions from the op poster. edit: changed gaming community from beehaw to Lemmy.ml hopefully it'll be more easilly accessible

tech/gaming news related communities:

  1. [email protected] Keep up with the latest technology news
  2. [email protected] Keep up with the latest fediverse updates
  3. [email protected]
    Linux content, could be news or something random
  4. !gaming[email protected] Keep up with the latest gaming news content

fun and amusement communities:

  1. [email protected] random pictures of food, could help inspire a meal. don't worry it is safe for work despite the potentially misleading name.
  2. [email protected] ask whatever floats your boat to Lemmy users available to answer your questions.
  3. [email protected] post or consume some wholesome material.
  4. [email protected] a currated list of some of the best Lemmy content.

Lemmy help and support

  1. [email protected] For if you're really really new to Lemmy.
  2. [email protected] free costumer support for Lemmy?
  3. [email protected] learn, discuss or ask about Lemmy apps.
 

Personally when i'm looking for a community I sort it by top month instead of new because since i'm looking for an active community, it'l sort based on rankings of the posts in the community. (I assume based on the guide)

By sorting by month I feel it's a good balence of good activity in a community vs ensuring that if tides change then fairly over time I can switch to another community based on rankings for the next month or the next and etc.

What do you all do?

 

On average if I make a post on Mastodon whether I get a comment, and a continued conversation is either hit or miss.

On Lemy if I make a post it's almost insane the probalility of actual comments, conversation and discusion with many users that can occur in a single post compared to Mastodon.

Is this because of the communities on Lemy making things more seamless and simple to find content I might want to consume and discuss as a user? Because say I join a Mastodon server, nothings really organized by topics or anything. Sure there are hashtags but, the user would have to know to search a specific hashtag and there's the chance of even missing somes post that may be related even if the topic is similar to a hashtag searched for.

Who knows, what are Lemy users thoughts on this?

I know one thing, if you can make a good platform, then you can get great conversations in anything that people are interested in. It seems to me Lemy is the best at this for most users. While on Mastodon, while i'm not saying I hadn't had people comment on my posts, it seems less likely then Lemmy. I don't think I made a single post where no one has commented atleast something on Lemy.

 

It needs to be said, but I want to know how some of you view Mario games and where they started and ended at.

My take- I feel that Nintendo hasn't made a good Mario game since.. 3D world on the 3DS/wiiU and before that.. Mario Galexy and then.. since Paper Mario on the original Wii. those games were in my opinion the best of what Mario has to offer as it was originally intended. Fun, colorful cartoony, and exciteing.

If I had to tell you to play between Paper Mario Wii edition (not Wii U) or New Super Mario Bros Wii. I would suggest Paper Mario for the over all better experience for a Mario game. Granted it's considered a spinoff, it's more colorful and you could tell the devs actually cared about making a good game there.

Super Mario Galaxy and Mario Sunshine are games that make me wonder the following. They chose the water flood gimmick over a real sequal to Super Mario 64 with fixed physics camera, and everything. Then on the Wii, they chose to not make a good Mario 64 sequal there they kept everything small and simplified, and focused on the gimick of the console. Think of how we went from Super Mario bros 1 to 3, and from 3 to world. But that never happened going from the N64 to the Gamecube.

For the longest to time, it's been the spinoffs keeping Mario alive, super smash bros,, Mario Kart.. paper Mario if not for those all we would have right now would be dumped down Mario games like new super Mario bros u or the Mario 3d world (even tho its one of the best, it's not as good as it should be) with no real innovation for Mario or excitment.

If they don't make a real Mario game for next gen, as they did during the N64 erra, Mario will never be good again. Mario Wonder is not a next gen game, they held back all their best, and finally now they make a good looking 2d game. This is what we should had gotten on the Wii U launch.

Edit: the idea of a perfect next gen Mario game would be something that plays like like Super Mario 64 , but then the moving/running and jumping physics of what you get in the new super Mario bros including the wall jumping, and with character models looking more like something you'd see in Super Smash Bros Brawl for the best modern approach for what Mario is suppose to look like graphically. Odyessee, while the graphics are good, i'm not saying they are bad. For a Mario game they are out of place. Lastly as for the camera, the camea should control more freely with the right stick, kinda like how the camera in Rayman 3 would control as a comparison for 3d platformers. Of course my opinion isn't the absolute solution.

 

Typically i'l pick 2 sources from each political leaning

2 news sources from the far alt left, 2 others from center and lastly two others from the alt right, and il just scroll past the news articles for that day on all them once every day to get mainstreem news from all perspectives.

I feel Center leaning news alone isn't enough but can be useful at times to get straight facts with little political bias. While left leaning news sources are pro for lgbt I hadn't seemed to find any far left sites that actively cover tech news. I had to make a sacrifise and make one of my sites a site that just leans to the left. Nbc news. Just to get some new content. Wheres the news for tech left sites? Or am I missing a concept here? I dont really like the alt right sites thaat much but sometimes they can have a good point when they are not talking against lgbtq+:people. Obviosly I wont agree with everything as I look at the news from left to right as a whole.

In short I follow abit of everything from left to alt right not just the center.

What do you all choose for news?

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