xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club
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Most of the problems America (and to a lesser extent the rest of the western world) faces stem from the fact that we either forgot about the power of civil disobedience or are just too cowardly to do it.
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@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
Hot take: I think it's proof that federation is working.
The utopian ideal of a single all-encompassing fediverse shouldn't be the goal, but that servers who want to interact can do so without interference from third parties.
You'll notice their attempts to police the entire network have largely failed, as more and more people splinter off and create new instances with saner policies and approaches.
I'd argue if they were being successful, Mastodon would be the only server software.
@bronze Arm your employees.
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@LukeAlmighty They're both display devices. What did you expect?
So it turns out that people still make dumb TVs. That's good to know.
@beardalaxy Does he have prior C++ or C# knowledge?
You could use GDScript but I've heard that it's too slow to be usable for the bulk of your game.
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So, what can be done?
1. Tell new people to use third party apps, they are better anyway and have more features. More info at https://fedi.tips/which-apps-can-i-use-should-i-use-the-official-app-or-a-third-party-app/
2. Tell people to sign up on the website. Mastodon's official site at https://joinmastodon.org is still asking people to choose a server, and is very professionally laid out. (I've also got my own amateurish effort at https://fedi.garden.)
3. If you're comfortable using github, give a thumbs up at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon-ios/issues/1023
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Yes, signing up on one server is much easier for people who are used to centralised services like Twitter, Facebook etc.
But as we have seen from Twitter, such a setup leaves you at the mercy of Musk-type takeovers. For-profit social networks do not like federation, they hate it as they see it as competition. It is very likely that a commercial takeover of a majority server would defederate it, to prevent people leaving and simplify its maintenance.
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For the first time ever, the most common way to sign up on the Fediverse is now directing people to sign up on one specific server, rather than making them choose.
This will make mastodon.social grow even more quickly than it has before, and future waves of new people may end up mostly there. It's very plausible this one server could become the majority of the Fediverse in the near future.
If that happens, the Fediverse would no longer be protected from buyouts by nasty people.
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There is technically still an option on the official app to "pick my own server", but it's much harder to read or notice, and new users will probably click the mastodon.social button without even thinking about the other button.
Mastodon.social just passed 1 million registered users about a week ago, out of a total network of approx 7 to 11 million users (dependiing on how you count them).
The official app is by far the most commonly used way to sign up on Mastodon and the Fediverse.
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>doom modding community protects a groomer
Wow I guess Eric Harris is no longer the most bad optics doom modder
Wow I guess Eric Harris is no longer the most bad optics doom modder
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The official Mastodon app is doing something new which is potentially very dangerous to the existence of Mastodon and the Fediverse.
The official Mastodon app now prompts users to join mastodon.social by default, when previously it prompted them to pick a server. If you're new this may sound harmless, but let me explain.
The entire point of this place is to be a social network spread out on as many servers as possible (the reasons are here: https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers/).
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Western journos explaining why after receiving trillions of taxpayer money it's incorrect to label them State Sponsored Media
@galena @PhenomX6 @alex @flappypaddle @silverpill @mint That's hachi logic right there.
@ResidentEvil I first thought that they were just parodying corporate and news outlet accounts like what you see on mainstream social media. I never expect them to have some anti-capitalist message behind it.
re: gamedev
@Rocket As a kid, I would play the flash version all the time on Midway's website.
re: gamedev
@coolboymew Yes. I thought about doing another shmup, but I didn't want it to be about spaceships or planes this time, and I know next to nothing about "magical anime fairy/witch type shmups", so I went with the Spy Hunter route. The challenging part is dealing with car physics. Namely, bumping into other cars.
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- Ioncom Official Site
- http://ioncom.helioho.st/
Joined Jun 2020
