How big is their userbase? I presume it’s far smaller than Instagram’s, so there’s going to be less concern with having a sudden influx of users than with Meta’s Threads.

Can someone provide or point me to a quick rundown of how Misskey and Calckey/Firefish differ?

I heard that foundkey’s development has stalled. I’m guessing we’re gonna see instances move from Foundkey to either Misskey or Firefish?

So it seems their reasoning is as follows:

1. billionaires “control” (in some way) the US government
2. said billionaires have an interest in getting people to join their companies’ platforms
3. therefore, they will collude to make the US government ban the fediverse

I doubt that they will readily consider the following information with a level head, but if they are willing to listen, you may want to cite the following:

• “Big Tech” is actually rather politically unpopular right now.
• The US government has actually held various hearings grilling leaders of major tech companies. Unfriendly hearings, I would add. (Your friend may just try to dismiss this as “theater”…)
• The various major tech companies see each others as rivals more than partners. Doubly so with Elon Musk gratuitously adding his own ball of stupid chaos into things. Heck, tech companies are more likely motivated by finding new disruptive technologies to undermine their competition.
• Meta and Tumblr have both expressed interest in supporting ActivityPub.
• ActivityPub, Mastodon, Lemmy, and the rest of this whole shebang is all open-source. Even if you make the flagship organizations illegal, the open-source nature of the software will lead other people to create their own hubs, and even to develop these platforms further in the absence of a flagship.
• The US government is gloriously slow to do anything.
• Hell, billionaires hate digital piracy! Have they been able to ban it? (This might be your strongest argument…?)

Tangential sidenote: I find the Lemmy easier to understand than Reddit.

(or his mother)

lol, suspiciously specific denial

Yeah, I wasn’t really using Reddit much before Reddit had its meltdown and the threadiverse exploded onto the scene. I’ve had a lot of fun here. Frankly I think I understand how the threadiverse works more than I understand how Reddit works.

I’ve had a similar experience with Mastodon. Wasn’t a big Twitter user, but now I’m more active on Mastodon than I ever was on Twitter. On each of multiple Mastodon accounts.

So that means that programmers are being replaced with debuggers. Human debuggers.

Egads! An error SSL occurred. Secure connect to server be not here.

FYI this was also independently posted to https://kbin.dk/m/gaming@kbin.social/t/8585 and then crossposted to @gaming@kbin.social, !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com, !retrogaming@lemmy.world, !technews@radiation.party, and @fediverse@kbin.social . In case anyone wants to keep track of all the conversations on it.

I also wanna add that I’m really glad y’all set up a Lemmy instance for video game preservation. This is basically a huge artistic legacy that our era has been able to enjoy and something worth safeguarding for the future.

Does kbin standardly use “@magazinename@kbin.domain” instead of “!magazinename@kbin.domain”? (asking this as a Lemmy user)

Congratulations!

Yeah, 100% OJ is…interesting.

Though I’d say if you’re beating 25% wins or so you’re already doing above par. (Par may be slightly above that since CPU players tend to be stupid, though they may have improved the AI since I last played.)

I recently noticed that 100% Orange Juice is actually getting a competitive scene, it seems.

It’s a 4-player virtual board game where there’s strategy involved in deck construction (one funny thing is that anyone can draw your cards so you have to choose carefully based on your choice of character and their special abilities), movement choices, understanding probabilities and other tactical decisions, and balancing risk/reward under uncertainty.

I used to be huge into the game but I haven’t been following it for the past couple years or so.

JRPGs definitely did get dunked on sometime within the past couple decades. There was definitely commentary going around about how JRPGs were somehow bad because they’re too linear and tended to have too many similar story tropes/character archetypes and random battles were bad, yadda yadda. Some people even speculated that the genre was dying out. (That prediction obviously turned out to be wildly inaccurate.)

I guess it could be argued that some people did dunk on it for culture-specific reasons, especially for the anime art.

I’ve met such people before.

I disagree with them though, as the tropes and presentation of a game are more pertinent to genre labels, than is the nationality of its creators. There are many western-made JRPGs, and there might even be Japanese-made WRPGs as well.

Amusingly, Dark Souls seems to have spawned its own mini-genre, with people now calling games “Souls-likes”.

I’ve heard some people try to use “eastern RPG” instead, but I’m not sure it’s caught on.

For what it’s worth, “western RPG” (or “WRPG”) seems to have caught on; some people call this style “computer RPG” or “CRPG”, but I’d say that even more inaccurate of a label. So yeah, WRPGs and JRPGs.

And meanwhile, we also have action RPGs, which can be subdivided into games that are more similar to something like Diablo (action WRPGs) vs. games that are more similar to something like Ys (action JRPGs).

And then we have strategy RPGs. And then we have MMORPGs. And then we have dungeon crawlers. And then we have roguelikes, which are distinct from dungeon crawlers despite also involving going around a dungeon.

Okay let’s be frank here, “role-playing game” itself was never a great name to begin with in the first place. There’s the famous comment that if you’re playing any Mario game you’re playing the role of Mario. But rather, “RPG” is just the broad umbrella for games that are descended, however distantly it may be, from D&D. Kinda. (I’ve heard that at one point Zelda 1 was called an “RPG”, though obviously the meaning of the term has become a little more specific since then.)

That’s beautiful!

Just curious, have you sorted through the biodiversity of your yard, say with the help of a tool like iNaturalist or something? I’m curious how many species are native vs. exotic, and how many are common vs. uncommon, compared to both developed spaces and natural spaces nearby.