I mean, have you played games recently?

What’s your mom?

I enjoy watching tournaments to see how much of skill difference there is between me, the one day a week gamer, and the pros who play every single day for 8-12 hours. It shows you what is possible and what the limit is.

Once I bought a game because I saw a pro playing it and thought it looked like fun. Boy, was I wrong. The gaming community is not just a shit-hole, it’s a toxic, radioactive bog of brain dead troglodytes caked in layers of fecal matter, impervious to reason or friendliness. Not only that, many multiplayer games have either no tutorial and you’re dropped into a war zone when you keep dying, all the while being screamed at by some dude with a supermarket mic that’s either in his asshole, mouth or 3 meters away on his console, with no possibility of reviewing what you did or a some kind of training chamber / level with bots to get better in peace and quiet.

That seems quite easy to game. Create a bunch of accounts across multiple instances, target a user you don’t like, find comments / posts with low vote counts and downvote all of those. That’ll skew the ratio and get them “preemtively” banned from communities that use that bot.

Out of curiosity, I looked at what I was banned from: some of them are communities I’ve never even interacted with like !tesseract@dubvee.org? What is that even?

And slrpnk has an automated bot now that bans and unbans people. Again, from a community I don’t even recognize (pleasant politics? huh?).

USA: the stitocracy

Nice marketing campaign for hate-purchases.

How is Lemmy doing in the Turkish community? Is there a Turkish lemmy instance?

Turns you PC into spacewarmer for just 70 bucks!

Hmmm, wanted to say Brasil, but maybe Sweden?

It’s what is called guessing. The author isn’t saying “this is how it is, it’s fact”. They are postulating and guessing. But you read it and take it as if this was a scientific paper published in a journal with a dataset = 20 or something.

Chill out dude. Not everything is rage bait.

Well said, keyboard warrior.

I think the moderation team has been working quite well. I’m 200 comments deep and only two mentions of LGBT.

Honestly, I’m surprised it’s only 50%. They don’t have a cost of living crisis there?

I have never seen a swastika on steam… how do you guys find them? I have come across “git gud” idiots and met one single nazi on there. What in the world are you people up to?

instances of Pepe the frog, a meme appropriated by the far right

LOl, get outta here. I use pepe all the time. It’s a friggin’ frog. I won’t let the far right take him away from me. Fuck off.

Bluesky plans to generate revenue via subscriptions at some later point and by providing other paid services, like access to custom domains.

This looks like a very important point. I doubt we’ll see true federation with “access to custom domains”.

About time? The solution had been staring them right in the face since the beginning.

I’m glad they at least name mastodon and not bluesky as an alternative.

Like we don’t have enough of them already.

Don’t buy it new, buy it second-hand. Or better, buy a FairPhone.