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TORFdot0

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  • Quote of the day by Gabe Newell: "Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue" — Sony just proved why digital storefronts are broken

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  • People who cared about physical games haven’t been PC gamers for 20 years. You could still care about physical games on consoles until about last week.

    Valve is also good to gamers with consumer friendly pricing and their client extends the gaming experience rather than running in the background, mostly useless like the console features and the other store fronts.

    I also don’t care for steam but I’m not upset about it because I just stopped playing on PC for years. The games I do play, still came out on disc. I remember that CoD MW2 was the game that broke the camels back, even though you installed it off the disc, it still wouldn’t launch without steam. (Same with HL2 but I knew that going into it and didn’t buy it)

  • What do you like about the fediverse and why?

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  • I really liked using Apollo to browse Reddit back when it was good. Voyager fills that same void but with less noise than using Reddit at the end

  • What do you like about the fediverse and why?

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  • Yes so much of the advantage of the fediverse is that it’s a thoughtful person on the other end of a post and not just content engineered for the most engagement

  • Just a friendly welcome post

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  • Votes don’t do anything on the fediverse so don’t be afraid to speak your mind. If you get downvoted, nobody really cares. I’d rather be downvoted than have my post sit at 1 score with no replies. At least then I know people bothered to read it.

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    Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?

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  • If you have a family it’s definitely expensive. And I literally sat down in a booth the last time I went to a McDonald’s and there was a huge turd just sitting on the seat next to me, no lie, and so it’s literally crap as well.

    I’ll never go back after that experience. I just can’t trust any location, the business model is to enshittified

  • Redlib is running on borrowed time — so I built a Reddit front-end that archives what it serves

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  • I almost can’t use Reddit from search anymore because the app nag completely locks up the web page but if you can’t be bothered to write the post pitching your software, makes me wary trusting the software itself

  • Are you gonna be buying a Steam machine?

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  • I would have, if it was $750. I just can’t justify the price at $300 more. I have an ancient PC that still plays the old games I love and a PS5 for the new games. Not sure there are many PC exclusives that require top of the line hardware to run.

  • [META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate?

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  • You don’t have to go closed source to monetize your software (although it does make it easier)

  • If you are coming from Reddit: YSK that Lemmy and Piefed have no karma. Don't delete your posts.

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  • I figured it was just instances culling old posts without a lot of engagement. I’ve had posts or comments that I’ve made get deleted and I didn’t request them

  • Anniversary dinner.

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  • How did you prepare the ribeyes. Looks good. I might do something similar for our anniversary this weekend if I can find some pork chops

  • Shrimp Tacos with Cilantro Lime Rice

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  • It was good! Thanks for the compliments. I agree with some of the other comments that the heavy dairy based sauce was a bit too much. I’d probably make it again with a lighter sauce and maybe pico or fajita veggies instead

  • Anyone using twtxt? It is for posting entirely as plain text.

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  • How is this more useful than just posting to an rss feed? Not trying to be snarky, just curious about the design

  • Have you ever had a productive discussion on the Fediverse or gotten anything positive out of interacting with other users? What was the thread about?

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  • I think that just being exposed to other points of view is productive. I’ve had enjoyable back and forths about plenty of media I enjoy and others have enjoyed.

    I think it has helped me have a more well rounded worldview. I consider myself more conservative that the average poster on the fediverse. I still dont think that I’ve moved that leftward but I’ve evolved from hating the term enshittification and not really seeing it as a big deal to be all in on the resistance to it.

    I just enjoy being here and the conversations I have here.

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  • You bring up a really good point about how Facebook once provided a really good and convenient service. Being able to have automated reminders and a place to send well wishes for birthdays is convenient. The same for having a central place to share photos with contacts rather than having to maintain a personal webpage or print slides and gather everyone over for a viewing party with a slide projector. It’s easier to say “follow my Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page” than it is to say “subscribe to my mailing list” and then maintain it.

    That’s why the platforms became so popular in the first place. If that was still the primary function we’d probably still be there. But instead we have the choice to make. Whether we will put up with the enshittification in order to maintain access the neglected vestiges of what of what once made these platforms great; or if we maintain our freedom and go back to the old less convenient ways.

    The fediverse won’t ever really be a replacement for those functions, the network effect is a filter for that. But it’s also not really designed to be, it’s meant to be pseudo-anonymous, decentralized, distributed, and portable and ephemeral. Great for being able to make arbitrary posts to a small network, easy to pick up your things and leave. It’s not great for putting your personal details on it and hoping your friends find you (there could be issues with federation keeping them from finding you, there is nothing keeping someone from impersonating you on the network)

    I believe the fediverse is healthy for its use case, I don’t believe it will ever fully achieve the use cases of the platforms it’s replacing and that’s ok with me. I (and 1M+ of MAU on the the fediverse) find it perfectly fine for its use case

    Edit: I may have misread your point and gone on a huge aside but my point is that I’m ok with the threaded platforms not chasing users to get to critical Reddit mass, I don’t see how mastodon can really be any easier to use, and friendica is more translating the fediverse experience to a familiar Facebook like interface than being a Facebook replacement. I think that maintaining the network is more important than recruiting people outside of it. If it’s a good experience, people will come in their own time.

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  • If someone is looking for a place that has “everyone” then the fediverse is not going to be the place for them.

    The important part is that there is enough people here that the network is healthy. Overpopulation is as bad for the network as underpopulation.

    If someone is looking to connect with their relatives and close friends… Call them! Send some pics in the group chat. Shoot them a text and ask how they’ve been. The best part of getting off corporate “social” media is actually getting to socialize with your contacts again!

  • Overpriced premade garlic bread is a sin

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  • I can make frozen garlic bread in 10 minutes and still help my kids with their homework/break up any fights/whatever duties I have tonight. Unless your time is worthless homemade isn’t really cheaper. But it is better

  • Everybody's heard about the berg.

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  • Looks like it’s roasted in oil (edit: I see it’s grilled not roasted, still the char looks perfect and I bet it was amazing), they aren’t going for healthy broccoli, they are going for delicious. Personally I think roasted broccoli pairs well with a proper cheeseburger. If anything it’s the tater tots that don’t belong on that plate

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • The high point of reddit was The Swamps of Dagoba story and Woody Harrelson’s absolute shit of an AMA.

    Let’s talk about Rampart

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • I had been on Reddit since 2011. This place feels a lot like the Reddit of 2011 but with less rage comics. I didn’t get banned. I left during the API debacle of 2023 when Reddit decided to push to make itself just a TikTok clone with occasional text and link posts and blocked the 3rd party clients using the API. Apollo kept Reddit as it was and without Apollo, I had no reason to use Reddit any more