@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I lurked on various Mastodon and GNU Social instances before the brief federation of Gab and the culture was kind of like what you described. A lot of people were just simply posting their nature walks or whatever projects they were working on. There were still a few people like that on here when I first joined, but I think Poast scared them off.
@wowaname @Milo @PurpCat @S-Config I'm afraid that you can't have that kind of culture on a decentralized network in this political climate (which I don't think is going to change anytime soon). The only way you can have it is on a centralized network with moderation to keep all the political posters, blackpillers, etc out.
For example, there are a couple of imageboards and textboards out there that strive to be more comfy instead of complaining about how much they hate the world, but those admins realized that they either need to sacrifice freeze-peach and/or be relatively obscure in order to keep it that way.
The fediverse has neither of that going for it. Yes, there are more laid-back instances on here that try to replicate that pre-2014 experience, but it is inevitable that users get dogpiled by Poast and NCD users who think they own the network. You could also just have an isolated, webring-like network of whitelist instances, but that kind of defeats the purpose of decentralization in the first place. You might as well just have a Ning site.
UK to go after YOUR PeerTube instance any day now....
RE: https://www.minds.com/api/activitypub/users/875492121426010128/entities/urn:activity:1757149844863979520
@mr_penguin It truly says something when even peaceful, law-biding activists are stalked and attacked by feds.
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@mr_penguin Are you asking if people think you're a bot or a federal agent?
@threalist @gvs You should try CryptPad instead. I haven't hosted it myself, but at least it lets you upload multiple files at once.
@wowaname That's what I expect.
>PS5 still has only like 3 exclusives
>Xbox Series X|S doesn't seem to be fairing much better
>Now Switch 2 is probably going to be a failure because nobody can afford it
It seems like the 9th gen is just going to end up as a failure (Steam Deck doesn't count). I never thought it could ever get worse than the 3DO era, but here we are. Just to think that if console generations were as long as they were 20 years ago, it would be wrapping up.