I’m having the same issues too. I’ve even had the scenario of writing a long comment on a thread and getting error-ed away once I hit “Add comment”. I don’t know why it happened, but it certainly made me stop using kbin for the rest of the day. 😅

It hasn’t fully discouraged me though. I remind myself that it’s early days so it’s going to have a bunch of hiccups along the way.

Prince of Persia trilogy could work. It’s more linear than assassin’s creed so it could offer a change of pace.

I mean, AI can be used to design a lot of robust yet efficient structures. In engineering and architecture, with enough data, AI can generate designs for buildings, and parts that are not only sturdy but can be built with less resources along with other design considerations. There’s a really cool nasa video where competitors are trying to 3D print structures for habitation in space.

AI is also used in medicine to come up with new protein structures to create new medicine. It’s also used in environmental sciences, to help predict earthquakes or monitor land use, etc.

There’s a lot of practical uses for AI.

I think it’s a matter of content type. We have a lot of links to interesting articles or pictures of memes with no additional input from the poster. Those make me less inclined to comment. I just tend to upvote/boost and move on.

I think for more discussion/opinions, people need a spring board to jump off of.

Base building games sound like they could work for you, Terraria, Frostpunk, Don’t Starve. If you want something even chiller, you could go for games like Stardew Valley or My Time at Portia.

Yup. I never used any of the apps (always opened reddit through my mobile browser) so I wasn’t affected that way. I am sympathetic to all the issues brought up, and I do really like the fediverse, but I don’t think the users are here yet.

I like going to reddit to read about opinions or someone more knowledgeable than me talk about things. I find there’s a lack of discussions in the fediverse at the moment for me, and maybe that’s due to me having to curate my experience more. I don’t know. But for now, yes, I still use it.

I wouldn’t say it’s unaffected. The quality of the content has dropped, less people are posting which makes the feeds look and feel stagnant, and some subs are just gone now. Whether or not that stays the same months or years from now, who can say?

I don’t think any censorship is happening though. Reddit is still very much an internet subculture thing and fediverse apps even more niche.

There was a subreddit that was all about posting NSFL content, “eyeblech” (play on “eyebleach”-a wholesome sub). My stupid ass got curious enough to have a look at it. The worst thing I saw on there was video of a father who was breaking down trying to hold up his very young son. His wife had committed suicide by hanging, and she had included their child in the act. So they were both there hanging side by side as he broke down in what looked like their living room/kitchen.

After that, I no longer let the morbid curiosity win and will only look at NSFL pictures/videos when necessary (ergo, for news).

Android for me. I just don’t like feeling stuck to use Apple products.

Have you tried Hannibal? Although it follows two characters primarily, I consider it more psychological crime drama than character driven.

I’m pretty sure you just click on it again. I just tried with your post.

It’s kinda tricky because a lot of people who just left reddit, left for the reasons you’re ranting about. I think that’s why there’s such a prevalence in posts that are anti-Meta/anti-Threads/anti-corpo. It’s so fresh in everyone’s mind how greediness has ruined a lot of communities they’ve built.

I will say, there’s a learning curve to using the fediverse (I’m still getting the hang of it). But there’s a way to get more “normal” content, you just have to deal with the reality that a lot of those communities are starting out and need your contribution to become a real community.

Besides, you don’t have to completely give up reddit. I still use mine and I don’t have any intention of deleting it any time soon.

I honestly think it needs a collective cultural shift by the users to not get so clickbait-y. I think one of the issues in social media is the constant pressure to stay updated, not just to post but also react. Interactions have a deadline and if you don’t meet it, too bad, so sad–which, to a degree makes sense for its usage. If I just want to keep people updated on the goings-on in my life, quick reactions are more than enough.

But if I want more meaningful discussions (which is what I hope for in the fediverse and what I tried to get from reddit), interactions should be normalized or even encouraged to have longer lifespans and users would ideally contribute more thoughtfully. This comes with the consequence of not having as much content, or having to be one of the few people constantly commenting and posting to keep a magazine or community active.

This is why I’m on the fence about “rule” posts. On one hand, it’s one way to populate the fediverse and I do like variety in my scrolling, but on the other, it detracts from being able to see discussions, and it can get tiresome to see meme after meme; because honestly, if I wanted a barrage of shit posts I would’ve stayed on reddit.

I think it very much depends on the type of games you play. Some microtransactions or DLCs aren’t just cosmetic.

I don’t remember which game had mounts and extra inventory space as microtransactions, but they exist, and sure, they’re optional, but it still kinda sucks that a player has to either grind for hours for rare RNG loot or just shell out 20$ for something that would make the game run better.

Single-player games aren’t immune to this either. I still remember the fuck up that was Mass Effect 3’s Day 1 DLC. Bioware insisted the character on the DLC was optional but many, including myself, felt that a character who represented a race that has been at the core of the series was absolutely necessary, and that his removal from the base game was a simple act of greed. Especially since he was ready to be played at the onset.

I wait for deep sales now. That usually comes with the downside that the game isn’t as hyped up or commonplace, but on the flipside, it’s been patched and surely someone on the internet has fixes to any issues that may arise.

I do buy into monetization sometimes, but I tend to budget it very tightly and only go for cheap skins, or novelty gacha characters.

I imagine if the kbin bird gets a name we’d follow along so either, Kibbies/Binks/Kebins?

Ohhhh, I see. So it’s only by the users subscribing to other communities that the instance is populated with content from other instances?

Yeah, I was hoping I could find an old post from him regarding the name, but google just shows me code, and I didn’t want to bother him because I imagine he’s busy. 😅

So… Each instance has a copy of all the other instances’ content? I thought they just had access to each other’s content but not a copy?

If they each have a copy then how would refederation work? I assume they just sync back together. So if instance A has a post with several comment threads on it from other instances, and B defederates, then it gets a copy of the post. If the original author on A decides to delete their post, then their post stays on B’s instance, but if B refederates, does their copy of that post repopulate or does it sync up to be deleted?

Agreed. I think the closest one would be Garrus actually, but even then, there was a gap.

One thing I will say about DA:O that I think they did better than ME, was how some romantic interests would take initiative towards the player, which I found surprising and caught me off guard. It helped build the illusion that the characters were their own person, and thus the relationship between player character and them was more genuine.