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  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • This fits my profile. I actively browsed and contributed to Lemmy for about 4 months following the US inauguration, but all the useful stuff I want is still on Reddit and Twitter. I still look at Lemmy around once per week, but honestly it seems like there's a lot more political rage bait and not as much in the way of niche community content.

  • Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining?

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  • What do you think of procedurally generated dungeons?

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  • I'm pretty easy to please, as long as procgen fits within the overall vibe of the game.

    My only hang-up is when there aren't enough unique/modular enough nodes and I can recognize walking through the same room several times in one dungeon. If that happens, I'm not playing your game for more than 20 hours no matter how much fun it is.

    Procgen should increase novelty. If you're just rearranging the order of parts A, B, and C, that's bad.

  • 'Knowing Steam players are hoarders explains why you give Valve that 30%,' analyst tells devs: 'You get access to a bunch of drunken sailors who spend money irresponsibly'

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  • I have a friend who buys every single console game released and never plays any of them. Physical copies georg is an outlier and should not be counted

  • Just saw this by chance: Donations and Patrons for Lemmy development surged massively on Liberapay in the last weeks!

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  • If it's any consolation, the admins of .ml will likely indefinitely host .ml with or without the support of patrons funding the development of Lemmy. Your support or lack thereof will never affect its operation.

  • Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks

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  • Hmmm, you might have a case but maybe not.

    The US Copyright office currently does not recognize protections for AI-generated works, and for portions of complete works that are AI-generated. For example, if a comic has graphics generated by AI but a script written by people, the graphics and character likenesses, etc are not protected by copyright.

    For audiobooks, the original work and the accompanying recording are both protected by copyright. The audiobook is considered a derivative work, so it may still be protected based on the fact that the original work is rightfully protected by copyright.

  • What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?

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  • The number of times I totally overshot distance based on the quest description and ended up in the Ashlands....

  • BitCraft Online an upcoming AAA mmo goes open source

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  • There are so few open source games, they have just cemented a permanent audience for themselves for the next 10 years by announcing this.

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • Fediverse can't sustain many niche communities with its level of activity. Even gaming communities on lemmy don't have enough traffic to constitute communities for individual games. I can't do after-episode TV discussions on Lemmy because there wouldn't be enough people commenting to warrant it. If I wanted to search for a D&D game in my local community (a huge US city), I couldn't do it via Lemmy.

    I can do all this on reddit, which I intend for Lemmy to replace, but I can't do that yet. So I still crawl reddit for the needs Lemmy can't replace, but I'd rather never have to open reddit in the first place.

    Same is true for every alternative platform on Fediverse. I'm still using all the mainstream apps I intend to replace.

  • Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users

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  • Feels like AI would really excel in this. It's personalized argumentation that can basically auto complete for the most statistically likely (ie popular) version of an argument. CMV posts largely aren't unique, there's a lot of prior threads to draw from which got deltas.

  • Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments

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  • Read the article instead of responding to the title. It was a university conducting formal research, which created AI bots that impersonated different identities. "As a black man..." style posts in ChangeMyView.

    The subreddit mods issued a formal complaint to the university when they learned of it, but the university is choosing not to block its publishing on the grounds of lack of harm.

  • The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube

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  • Ironically, I think Fediverse suffers from a high amount of tech expertise and not enough project managers, lol. Not enough people cracking the whip saying "users said x feels confusing, what can we do about it?" then establishing timelines and check-ins. Maybe instead of Lemmy devs saying, "we accept nearly every pull request," they should say, "we want a project manager to help recruit volunteers on specific issues x, y, and z".

  • peertube recomendation algo alpha build

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  • Here’s a cleaned-up version of your Lemmy post that keeps your tone but improves clarity, flow, and grammar:

    Did they forget to delete ChatGPT's bit or did they intentionally copy the whole thing lol

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  • I maintain my old hotmail account, but I also have 3 different gmail accounts. I also have a google account associated with my hotmail account so I can do things like keep a calendar and use Google docs with it. I imagine lots of people don't realize you can make a Google account with an existing email, so they just switch.

  • The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube

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  • There was a lot of energy around strategy when I joined in January (can you guess why? Lol). The limiting factor seems to be chosen participation. Lots of people have opinions, not many people want to organize their thoughts into, eg. an effective advertising campaign, a github pull request, or basically anything other than meaningless musing.

    Here were some threads in my message history I found insightful: https://lemmy.world/post/25512565 https://lemmy.world/post/25553607 https://lemmy.world/post/27824597

    I'm not really skilled in anything relevant, so my strategy has been:

    • On mainstream social platforms, point out any hint of enshittification and follow up with a recommendation toward a specific Fediverse alternative.
    • Link directly to discussions or articles I found on Lemmy that I thought were worth sharing
    • Building partnerships in my existing communities with the corresponding Lemmy communities to encourage user flow

  • The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube

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  • The point is outreach to the other platform. Sending engagement to this video on YouTube will boost it due to YouTube's algorithm. More exposure on YouTube = more potential new PeerTube users. Publishing this on PeerTube is preaching to the choir. As an alternative platform, you always need to maintain a presence on the main platform so you can encourage people looking to leave.

  • Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators)

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  • Revolt has voice channels, and video is in active development

  • Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company

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  • Oh true. I think it would be difficult for a chat platform like Revolt to federate correctly with other existing services though. Channel permissions, role permissions, bot functionality - I think it would be difficult to honor this stuff with federation. For example, Matrix and Revolt don't have the same system of role permissions.

  • Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company

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  • Maybe for this crowd. Almost no services I use aside from email were federated, before I went to Lemmy and Mastodon. And now it's email, Lemmy, and Mastodon. Average users just chasing a good experience don't really care about federation, despite its benefits.