That’s markets in action. Housing being a market means that it responds to whoever is feeding money into it, and those tend to be people who want to get that money (and more) back out of the market again, not those who are interested in solving things like “housing problems”.

For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

2e generally has rules that are on par with 5e, or even simpler in many cases, just written in a way that makes them sound like a software development reference text. The number of times I’ve been “Ohhhh, they mean X! Why didn’t they just say so?!?!?”

But that’s just it, “Lemmy’s” front page isn’t like that. There’s no “Lemmy” front page. There’s a thousand different ones.

Reddit is a website. Lemmy is a potentially unlimited, constantly changing, number of websites. They’re not directly comparable.

People find the “which ‘Gaming’ community is the real one?” issue very frustrating, because they currently have the illusion that they have access to everything all in one place. The idea that you can’t have a discussion with a million other people is meaningless to them, totally crushed under the weight of FOMO.

They look at Reddit, and they look at Lemmy, and they see that they’re different, but don’t really care why. They see that different (not more, just different) effort is required to navigate the space. They don’t care that they just need a different mental model to understand the space – they don’t want one. And the design language of the space communicates to them that they don’t need one.

I’m not going to get up on my soapbox and rant and rave about this today – I’m too tired, and it’s too busy of a week – but this is what I mean when I keep saying we can’t win against centralized social media by aping the UI. “Lemmy” just isn’t a Reddit replacement in the same way that another centralized service is. A Lemmy-based website, sure. But not the network of them.

KOTT’s frames most of his videos as introductions to the game. He’s doing “Pathfinder 2e for Dummies for YouTube”. He keeps reinforcing the idea that spells just happen because it’s the kind of distinction that someone who’s never touched a TTRPG before might need made for them.

He does it over and over again because he doesn’t assume anyone has watched any of his previous videos.

The timer also discourages kinds of interactions or engagement with other players that may actually be welcomed, entertaining, and appreciated. It also takes a significant amount of the responsibility of being a referee off the GM’s shoulders - you know, that thing that they’re actually charged with doing - and turns it over to a clock that they can just use as a cudgle.

It’s the classic toxic nerd shit of turning something that should be a social encounter into a souless mechanical system.

Bannon is an anger salesmen. Anger salesmen don’t sell you somene else’s anger, though – they can’t. Instead, they package up your own anger, and sell it back to you.

Bannon sees the the reaction people are habing to CEOs right now, slapping a big ol’ bow on it, and selling it back to people.

The post office is antiquated and better off privarized. That’s why, during the strike, businesses whined about the added expense of having to use private couriers, and why the government had forced employees back to work!

Wait…

No. That’s not what they’re saying at all.

The NDP is not in government. Trudeau did not form a coalition, he decided to form a single-party cabinet in a hung parliament. This is how this always plays out.If he wanted stability, he could have formed a coalition.

It’s ok. They think they’re intelligent, but also think that machibe learning models can’t be biased. They have no self-awareness, and are incapable of understanding that they don’t know what they’re talking about.

Yeah, I ran the physical Beginner’s Box last year, and it was really great. We all picked up the system really quickly, even the 10 year olds.

WTF is he thinking?

“The Bloc will let me do some performative grand standing. I hope.”

To be an OG ForkKnife player is to be constantly under attack

And Musk os too stupid to realize that Trump cares about the image of holding piwer, not about the power itself. He’s very easy to control from the shadows, but Elon can’t keep his face out of the public eye.

First you kidnap Theodore, and now you’re beating him? You haven’t even sent a ransom yet! Just tell us what you want! We just want Teddy back!

So I’m confused, is saying you want the elite to die something the right-wing talking heads are in favour of, or is it beyond the pale? Because they’ve gotten awfully inconsistent about this one in the past few weeks.

So, there are issues with something like inheriting comment threads in a segmented moderation space like Lemmy. Cross-posting a post from one community to another means crossing… let’s call them “regulatory boundaries”. Comments posted in Community 1, hosted on Website X may violate the rules of Community 2, hosted on Website Y. So, what would that mean in terms of rules enforcement?

As a moderator, you can delete the comments you’ve inherited, but it’s a lot harder to keep up when you’ve just gotten 50 or 100 comments dumped on you all at once. It also breaks the syncronization you seem to be looking for.

You can decide that moderators at the receiving community can’t moderate the discussion, but that’s just ends up seeming somewhat parasitic, and a clear and open vector for abuse.

On top of the moderation issues, it also means giving users the ability to just… inject people into a community who aren’t members, both without the consent of that community, and without the consent of the people being injected in. Like, what happens if I were to cross-post something into a troll community? Suddenly, I’ve just exposed dozens of people – if not more – to a harassment ring, with two clicks of a button.

Personally, I fail to see the upsides. This really just seems like yet another way to try and paper over the fact that we’re all using different websites, and to ignore the websites that we’re actually using in favour of make believing that we’re in the centre of the panopticon.

Which one? With the variety of front ends and mobile apps, experiences can be very different

Unfortunately, this basically translates to “if you know the secret handshake, you can make it better”. New users don’t know the handshake, and more casual users aren’t going to bother looking for instructions on how to do it. They already struggle with the idea of there being different URLs.

Which is a significant UI issue, as well. The most popular web servers leveraging ActivityPub continue to ape the visual form of centralized social media, which communicates to users that they work like centralized social media. But they don’t. Form follows function, and therefore form implies function. This is a significant source of the friction new users experience.

Remember, most new users are neither broken glass rejectors of some other website, nor are they ideologues. They’re just trying something new out, to see if it’s better than what they already have.

And the fediverse, point blank, is not. Mastodon is not better at being Twitter than Xitter or Bluesky. Lemmy is not better at being Reddit than Reddit. But they both look like they’re trying to be Twitters or Reddits. The result is that this place looks like the wish-dot-com version of the big players.

Power tripper get regularly called out on [email protected] for a few months

Power tripping occurs everywhere. The bigger issue is that because the fediverse is trying to pretend it’s just like centralized social media, moderation issues can appear a lot different here. For one, they tend to play out much more publicly, because a lot of them occur at the site admin level. For another, the idea of defederation is alien to centralized social media users, and the idea that they could be cut off from the people or communities they follow due to no fault of their own feels incredibly unjust. Even if the reason for defederation is totally understandable, the admins have followed a robust procedure, and alternatives have been tried, it still feels arbitrary to someone who’s not involved.

But that’s again a concern of significance because everyone wants to make believe this space is just like centralized social media. That the differences are superficial, and not backed into the very core of the experience. It’s also, in part, due to the limited range of moderation features currently explored. We mostly still have moderation suites that make the most sense in… wait for it… centralized settings.

Ok, but that means all of the buzz about the fediverse is negative.

And also all of the ghost accounts suggest that “negative” is a common experience here.

The prople who are happy are also happy to let the place languish, because they got what they want: A space to circle jerk about linux, to complain about Twitter and Ressit, and to “both sides bad”. But maybe that isn’t what’s best for the internet. Maybe we should want something better?

Hashtags still only show you posts that are specifically addressed to users on your host site. They just act as a quick-search feature. You need some kind of “actor” to re-address things to people who aren’t following the OP in order to get true propagation across the network. This is what guppe groups do, and what Lemmy communities do.