xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@lina Because they are a bunch of markov-chain bots that are only here to get other people depressed so that they will kill themselves.

@PurpCat @RatPoster @coolboymew My main issue is that I don't understand why people think that Fedi should be a replacement for imageboards. Social media/microblogging is literally the exact opposite of imageboards. On imageboards, everyone is completely anonymous, all posts are judged by content and not by the poster, and things like "blogposts" are discouraged unless it's for something like an /agdg/ thread. Here, everyone has a reputation whether their accounts are linked to their real ID or not, people try to only post things that won't make them lose followers and will get them enough likes and reblogs, and people will ignore your posts if you have a bad enough reputation. People love to claim that imageboards are hiveminds, but I would argue that the fedi (post-2021) is worse.

There is also the fact that on imageboards and regular forums, threads are grouped into subforums or boards so if you want to take a break from politics and just talk about tech or video games, you can do so. Granted, some political shit might bleed in, but even then you can check each thread. Here, there is no escape. It's guaranteed that the posts talking about $CURRENT_EVENT will be the ones cluttering your timeline.

@beardalaxy Another engine within an engine and it seems like it's meant for 2D games so there is literally no excuse for it. It reminds me of when people were trying to make game creation toolkits in GameMaker.

@PurpCat @RatPoster @coolboymew I really hate how the places that many of those users went to afterward are fundamentally worse, fedi included.

@coolboymew @berkberkman @RatPoster
>I'd argue that 4chan back then was even "worse" in what was often happening there back then than it is now

Are you talking about the site itself or how the community actually affected things in the real world?

4chan is worse than it has ever been. Nothing but Pepe and Wojak template threads. I had to mute that greentextbot on here because every time I saw a 4chan screenshot, I'm reminded how soulless that website is now. It's probably a bunch of markov-chain bots making those threads.

@coolboymew @berkberkman @RatPoster Notch frequently posted on 4chan, during the early days of Minecraft.

@berkberkman @RatPoster @coolboymew Even before THQ Nordic, there were a bunch of indie game devs that openly posted on imageboards and even held AMAs on them. Hell, Running With Scissors had an official board on 8chan. I'm not even joking.

@coolboymew @RatPoster I was browsing 8/v/ at the time and I saw that AMA thread and thought it was a joke.

@PurpCat If the shooting was real and organic, and the CulturalPhilistine Youtube account was him, then that goes to show how being obsessed with philosophy and taking it literally can have devastating consequences.

@beardalaxy How about replacing the open-world with procedurally generated content? I think that would be a good compromise as they offer the same amount of replayability, in my opinion.

@RustyCrab
*devault screeching*