I’ll just paste here what I wrote elsewhere:

• The average person is tech illiterate, so having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask. It may be easy for you or me, but we’re here on Lemmy, so that immediately makes us not the average.

• The average person also doesn’t care what a federated platform is. They just want something that is convenient and works. Same as the above point; maybe we would be willing to sit down and figure things out, but others will consider that a waste of time and bad.

• In that sense, federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience.

• From personal experience, trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating. Some rules were too restrictive, some rules were too vague, other rules looked like they were created for sensitive little snowflakes. It was like reading through the rules of Discord servers. Not a good look for a social media platform.

• Something like Bluesky tries to be both; a platform without algorithms (or only user-created algorithms that you can choose to subscribe to), where you can make your own instance or just be part of its centralised instance. The fact that the overwhelming number of people choose the latter should tell you enough about what people want.

Everyone is using Gmail or Hotmail. So it’s not the same, even if it technically might be.

When I searched for Mastodon a few years back the first page I landed on was one where I had to browse and choose an instance. If that was what most people saw back then during the first Twatter exodus, then nobody is going to look back.

The average person is where all their friends, who are also average people, will go. And that’ll be on the platform that requires the least effort to sign up to. Which isn’t Mastodon.

I’ll just paste here what I wrote elsewhere:

• The average person is tech illiterate, so having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask. It may be easy for you or me, but we’re here on Lemmy, so that immediately makes us not the average.

• The average person also doesn’t care what a federated platform is. They just want something that is convenient and works. Same as the above point; maybe we would be willing to sit down and figure things out, but others will consider that a waste of time and bad.

• In that sense, federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience.

• From personal experience, trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating. Some rules were too restrictive, some rules were too vague, other rules looked like they were created for sensitive little snowflakes. It was like reading through the rules of Discord servers. Not a good look for a social media platform.

• Something like Bluesky tries to be both; a platform without algorithms (or only user-created algorithms that you can choose to subscribe to), where you can make your own instance or just be part of its centralised instance. The fact that the overwhelming number of people choose the latter should tell you enough about what people want.

Mastodon sucks really bad. It’s a complete dead end for an artist.

Yeah, I’ve seen headlines like this pop up for the past few years near Christmas. I think companies just want to cheat their devs out of Christmas bonuses.

Now where is that politician that was so passionately talking about coal the other time…?

Comment sections under these articles are always filled with two kinds of people:

• Ones who won’t miss the water until the well runs dry.

• Ones who understand what it means to have a well.

If you think they’re bots, you can just subscribe to a user-curated block list for bot accounts.

No thanks. The game isn’t worth my time even if it were completely free.

Guess I’ll have to wait till the game is a bit more cooked. Bummer. I hope they win this stupid lawsuit from Nintendo, because Palworld does have good potential.

Thanks for the answer. How are other elements in the game?

I wanted to get Palworld until I saw a friend play it near launch. I held off of buying it for these reasons:

• Bad pathfinding with enemies and allies getting stuck or easily confused by terrain objects.

• “Dumb”/static enemy AI behaviour, such as just standing and doing its basic attack animation.

• Character clipping issues with player structures.

• Occasional really weird physics issues.

Good they fixed the map falling issue, though.

Is Palworld still a janky mess?

Here are some:

• The average person is tech illiterate, so having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask. It may be easy for you or me, but we’re here on Lemmy, so that immediately makes us not the average.

• The average person also doesn’t care what a federated platform is. They just want something that is convenient and works. Same as the above point; maybe we would be willing to sit down and figure things out, but others will consider that a waste of time and makes something bad.

• In that sense, federated platforms are a major failure, as picking instances and creating accounts is a hassle rather than a convenience.

• From personal experience, trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating. Some rules were too restrictive, some rules were too vague, other rules looked like they were created for sensitive little snowflakes. It was like reading through the rules of Discord servers. Not a good look for a social media platform.

• Something like Bluesky tries to be both; a platform without algorithms (or only user-created algorithms that you can choose to subscribe to), where you can make your own instance or just be part of its centralised instance. The fact that the overwhelming number of people choose the latter should tell you enough about what people want.

Well… Then… Just don’t follow those people. My personal feed is 100% artists and scientists. That’s the fun part of Bluesky; unlike Twatter, you’re not forced to see all the cringe and ragebait.

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Only started playing it fairly recently. It’s been hanging out in my Steam library for some time after I received it from Humble Monthly quite some time ago. Decided to try it on my Deck. Runs flawlessly despite being marked as “unsupported” by Steam.

English voice acting is surprisingly good. In a JRPG I’d always find someone who’s jarring to listen to, and it’s pretty terrible if that’s the main character. But so far I haven’t found any character that annoyed me, and like you said, the actress of Velvet seems to have no weakness in voice acting skill; she can sound soft and tender, moody and dark, and scream with rage. I wish anime had more English VAs like that, instead of the default 3 voices everyone seems to use.

Not sure how I feel about combat, though. I know it’s a staple of the Tales series, but I’d much rather fight enemies on the map than being sucked into an encounter like a turn based JRPG.

I’m at the part where Velvet joins with a pirate Reaper to take over a fortress to clear the way forward. I’ve cleared out the control room and soon will be capturing an enemy battleship. So far the story has been… incredibly edgy. I’m not sure if it’ll change, but Velvet is basically female Sasuke from Naruto Shippuden in attitude. I really like the presentation, however. Cutscenes are animated in-engine and transition to animated anime slides. Very clever.

Yeah… I’m not expecting that one to be finished… Ever. :(

“Mandatum?.. Yay.”

“Camundament?.. Imenaso!”

• Age of Empires series.

“Breach in starboard fusion chamber.”

“Green line confirmed.”

“This is a cakewalk.”

“Guidance failure, we’re losing control.”

• Homeworld series.

“Bring it, yo!”

• The World Ends With You.

“ASSUMING DIRECT CONTROL.”

“THIS HURTS YOU.”

• Mass Effect 2.

“For the sampler Chancellor!”

“Watch out for those wrist rockets!”

“Just like shooting womp-rats, aye kid?”

"We have lost a command post! Take it back!!"

• Star Wars Battlefront II.

"Have you seen those warriors from Redguard? They got curved swords! Curved… Swords!"

• The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim.

“Friendship Frameshift drive charging…”

• Elite Dangerous.

“DEVOUR!!!”

• Tales of Berseria.

“Darkness within darkness becomes you, Riku”.

Except on Bluesky you create your own algorithm. You’re not rage-baited by an algorithm that exists to “maximise engagement”, and although spam bots exist on Bluesky, they have virtually no reach.