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Ashtear

@ Ashtear @lemm.ee

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  • Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say

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  • And I’d like to block users with consistent negative behaviours.

    This is where I'm at it with it. Votes are already public to those who really want to see them and that cat's not going back in the bag. Anyone that goes out of their way to inject it into the conversation is showing their ass and adding a (likely extra) level of toxicity that blocking would fix.

  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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  • In the short term? Possibly.

    In the long term, it opens up space for competition, which is better for end users, advertisers, small business, and more.

  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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  • You can also read about Lina Khan, the current chair on the FTC side of antitrust.

  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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  • Just spinning off Android would shake up map software. It's how they get traffic and other data.

  • 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days

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  • I was never much of an /r/all user, it's always been niche communities for me. I feel like almost all of my niches have content here now (if not quite as much engagement as I'd like). !retrogaming@lemmy.world in particular has exploded with activity lately and arguably can now serve as a full replacement for its subreddit counterpart.

    Thing is, when I try to bring people on Lemmy, it's always "why?" and if I make it that far, "how?" With the how, I've been using the analogy of signing up for email, though it's still not as smooth as it could be. Eyes glaze over when anyone starts asking me about how the Fediverse in general works.

    The why is harder. I don't know how much user bleed-over niche Reddit got from /r/all users but I'm guessing it wasn't a trivial amount. I'm sure a lot of Reddit's growth was owed to AMAs, so it's possible Lemmy might need something flashy to draw in users who will then filter into communities waiting for them. Some sort of content unique to the platform. I do think before we get there we need a friendlier way to help new people find communities they may have interest in.

  • 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days

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  • I'm out of the loop, what are the highly requested features?

  • It’s not them, it’s us: the real reason teens are ‘addicted’ to video games

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  • Unfortunately, NIMBYism comes into play should teens start making heavy use of any outdoor spaces, including trails and parks. Low or zero-cost can't be the only factor in providing places for kids, there also have to be protections against or ways to assuage older persons that are being fed constant streams of fear.

  • Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana coming west. Western release mistakenly leaked by XSEED Games.

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  • Yes, it's a light remaster of the 2005 release. Seems to be part of a larger effort on Falcom's part to get their older games more accessible on newer hardware. Players have needed a PC to have access to their catalog.

  • Active communities promotion thread

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  • Subscribed to Imaginary Witches, thanks!

  • [OpenCritic] The Legend Of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak Reviews (81 Top Critic Average 100% Critics Recommend)

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  • This isn't an anthology like most games in this genre (or video games in general). It's a continuous narrative, like a long-running novel or TV series. Newcomers could get on board with this one, since it's introducing a new cast and location, but they'll have to go back at some point. Otherwise, they should start at the beginning (Trails in the Sky). Even if newcomers start with this one, they are going to be lost in Daybreak 2.

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?

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  • Funny thing is, out of all the disc "cleaners" we sold while I was at Gamestop, we got very few complaints about it. Make the discs look like they went through hell but the product worked.

  • Square Enix is still working hard on indie/small-scale games, CEO says

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  • That was Matsuda. He was replaced last year.

    I suppose this is newsworthy because Kiryu's biggest splash so far has been saying they were cutting back on smaller projects.

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?

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  • It's hard to top the inkjet printers I've owned. I still can't believe 30 years later home printer tech is not only unimproved but worse between lower quality production and squeezing people on ink costs.

  • FromSoftware says Elden Ring's popular Seamless Co-op mod is 'definitely not something we actively oppose,' and may even 'consider ideas like that with our future games'

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  • Wish Capcom had learned from this, too. Monster Hunter World's multiplayer restrictions were so backwards, and now they are bringing them back for Wilds, ugh.

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  • Crossposting from popular posts is also a good way to promote your smaller communities!

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  • What I've been running into is that even if it's the same link, if you change the body text it won't list the crossposting.

  • What movie character you happen to have a crush on, even though the character clearly shows dozens of red flags?

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  • Lenore from the Castlevania Netflix series.

    Tons of consent issues for sure, but she's gorgeous and smart as hell.

  • PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities

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  • lemm.ee has been great, very level-headed administration.

  • I've got this idea baking because I saw a guy post that it's been as many year from 1971 to 2024 as it was from 1971 to 1918. How do the global wars compare in the two periods?

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  • If we define the end of the Cold War as the collapse of the Soviet Union, that was over 30 years now. Considering other potential flashpoints (e.g., India and Pakistan), I'd say it's more nuclear deterrence in general. No one wants to be the first to get into sustained conventional, symmetrical warfare with nukes on both sides.

    We also seem to be seeing a shift in soft power. Now that raw footage of conflict is readily recorded and broadly accessible, regimes aren't able to control messaging like they used to be. Still need public support to wage war, and it's that much harder to obtain when people can see the faces of the people you're killing.

  • Number of monthly active Lemmy users rising again

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  • Welcome! Hopefully you know about Lemmy Explorer, I've found it very useful in finding communities of interest to me.