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It’s definitely exposing a lot of creeps on Lemmy.

I think the point is just finger pointing, one-upmanship, and division. It’s Schrodinger’s outrage fuel.

Unless they’re getting paid directly, like through something like Nebula or their own service like a Dropout or Viva sort of thing, why wouldn’t they want their views to be somewhere that drives more meaningful numbers? Peertube isn’t going to bring them new users, and from what I’ve seen a lot of what’s on peertube seems to just be unauthorized reposts that pull away views.

Like, if I enjoy a creator who’s on YouTube, I’m not going to watch their stuff somewhere that doesn’t give them any meaningful recognition. Something like Patreon is great, but driving up their numbers on Peertube isn’t going to bring them to a wider audience the way driving up their engagement on YouTube would, and those numbers bring more people to their Patreon.

Is there an actual incentive for any for-profit channel to have a peertube channel? It seems like it would just reduce engagement that they actually get paid for.

I would honestly love to see a Fallout with the sort of gameplay in 4 with a story more in the style of New Vegas. The dialogue tree in 4 left a lot to be desired, the plot didn’t leave as much room for player choice as it might have, and there were lore elements that weren’t consistent with previous games, but the combat was great. And honestly, it was much more open-world than 3 in a way that felt more like the other installments. Fallout 3 was a lot of being hedged in by limited options in the ruins of DC and a lot of very samey subway tunnels. The environments of 4 had a lot more variety and let the player roam more.

It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.

Do you talk to people like that in person?

If you switch to the piefed you can block their entire instance.

Lemmy is absolutely inundated with bad faith actors who seem suspiciously intent on sewing as much division as possible, getting the left to be as politically ineffectual as possible, and never offering anything as a viable solution. There’s no meaningful barrier for entry so it’s pretty trivial to make a bunch of accounts and push an agenda.

That’s by no means limited to Lemmy, but Lemmy is absolutely littered with them. It’s been like this for quite a while.

I mean personally, it’s not something I expect to be reminded of in the top of the feed for what is otherwise a pretty light webcomic community.

I lost two people to cancer this year. Sucks.

I’m not sure this comic is the heartwarming post you think it is.

Is this fun for you?

For some people, possessing any empathy at all qualifies as “virtue signaling”.

I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.

It’s an environment that’s mechanically centered around dunking on people. It’s all upvotes, downvotes, and arguing. The design of the platform itself encourages it, because that’s what it’s built to do. Lemmy isn’t really any different, it just hasn’t had as long to develop the same level of toxicity. The same mentality is here too, though, and is growing pretty consistently.

A year ago Lemmy felt like a relative breath of fresh air in comparison to what it’s quickly become. These threads are half arguments and the feeds are half people spamming 6 threads in five minutes to build up some sort of visibility.

Honestly I feel like Lemmy sort of tricked me into wandering into Reddit 2 after having mostly left Reddit.

Meaningless hair splitting. I still have my entire collection of SNES cartridges. They’re still playable, and no one can take them short of robbing me. If my ownership of those games was limited to a license that could be revoked, that might not be the case.

That’s not the story Billet told.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

That’s not how you spell “steals”.

That is absolutely untrue. Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files. No serial numbers to redeem, no servers, no downloads or updates. Sometimes you’d get a booklet with the game that had some codes in it that the game would ask for on startup to make making copies a little more difficult, but that was it.

You’d literally have everything you need just on the CD, disk, or cartridge. We 100% owned the game and the system it was played on, and the only way to revoke that would have been to physically break into your house and steal it.

This whole games as services thing is about 20 years old tops, and it wasn’t even remotely approaching the standard for quite a while after that.

Imagine being lucky enough to have hands and squandering it with capitalism.