Formerly @Elevator7009@kbin.run, kbin.run died, moved here.
Pleased that !automationgames@lemmy.zip has attracted posters who aren't me in its first few days of existence! Thanks to it I played some automation games again. Mindustry may not be for me… I'll give it an honest shot but I just hit the tower defense tutorial and am feeling a bit leery. I'm not a "violence in video games is bad" type so not sure why I am getting like this.
Waiting for the day the Fediverse gets more users. I mod 3 communities now and I am letting it go because small platform, someone has to provide content, and although I am fully capable of posting without being a mod the things I'd like to post about don't always have preexisting communities (or have a dead one, so precedent to recreate—the "hey that's too specific, just post in a big general community" hurdle tends to be presented less often when the community already existed on the Fediverse). But in a normal situation this feels too powermoddy.
I've come off seeing a lot of people express dissent in a rather acidic manner, so I just appreciate that you have stated an opposing view in a way that is informative, and a lot less "anyone who disagrees is [bad thing]", "I will say that anyone who approves of [thing I don't] masturbates to it as a way to be hurtful and insulting", "you disagree? I will position you as overly emotional and myself as the realist by saying 'Cope'", etc.
You've made me curious about various programming languages' efficiency, specifically in how choice of language might affect resource consumption. Not just CPU cycles but carbon and electricity. And I'm actually going to look into it instead of feeling put off enough by vitriol that I just wash my hands of the entire disagreement and walk away. +1, this is how you disagree online.
Yes, I may be venting my feelings about seeing too many people being mean online.
I still have not tried PieFed yet but I always find myself cheering it on whenever I see it.
There were some more genre communities I followed but they are not near active enough for me to feel ok posting here
No, I don't think so. On one hand I'd love to see this, r/gamingsuggestions is one of the few things I still look at Reddit for, on another I'm not sure how much activity it would see right now.
I wish you the best of luck with your instance, sounds like a solid smaller instance!
I felt disheartened a bit ago because I posted discussion questions sometimes on !otomegames@ani.social and did not get any bites besides my own starter comment answering my own question (not in the post body so as not to elevate my own opinion above the others, and posted also to encourage people to post: 1 comment is easier to speak up with than 0, I think, because that 1 comment might give you something to engage with if the post itself did not). I posted discussion questions in several communities today, including !otomegames@ani.social, got bites, and I'm delighted reading all the responses.
(in !pokemon@lemm.ee, !infinitynikki@discuss.tchncs.de, and one in !tycoon@lemmy.world that I crossposted to !citybuilders@sh.itjust.works)
Glad to see someone else with this view. When I pop my head into the Anime and Manga communities I saw people calling stuff that interested me low-quality and trash. It's perfectly fine to have your own set of preferences and express it, including dislike of things! But it did make me wonder if there was anyone like me who might enjoy what others consider trash sometimes, or even who might like the same stuff I liked, or if I would be mostly alone on Lemmy in liking what I like. It is nice to know I'm not.
I will admit that I don't think I have much of a quality filter at all. But I do have a finely-honed "will I like it?" filter.
to be honest if this isn't a pinned post or linked in the sidebar i feel like it should be, great writeup
Well, we all would like more engagement on the Fediverse, but most of us do not want it in exchange for engagement algorithm hell. There leads the path to even more politics than is already posted but now with an extra serving of vitriol, "hey let's look at this video of a stranger being an asshole, get enraged, and insult them," and controversial takes on someone's "am I the asshole?" post drowning out actual cool stuff that appeals to most, but that also doesn't make them type out 7 paragraphs online. And what cool stuff does make it up to some kind of Popular/Trending is frequently extremely short-form content, which a lot of people believe is lowering their attention span and frequently (though not always) just lower-quality than long-form content.
At least, that is what you get with an algorithm that tries to maximize engagement above all else. We'd have to balance engagement encouragement with quality, and try to avoid outrage porn getting pushed up so high at the expense of other things just because it tends to generate the most engagement.
I think a lot of us also like that we can read the unread posts and click off, instead of forever being encouraged to scroll more, so adding an addiction component on purpose would probably be unpopular.
About the artist thing specifically—I see artists more often on Mastodon and BlueSky. I think it is because Twitter was their home platform, so naturally they flee towards other microblogging platforms.
Yep, this happens to me and it's kind of frustrating.
When I see a discussion-based post or question I do try to answer because I know the Fediverse needs engagement and I know what it is like being on the other side. But sometimes I truly just have nothing to offer and the fact I don't have a good answer isn't interesting enough to be worth posting (for example, "What is your favorite football team and why?" in some general ask community. I do not have one so I can't participate in the intended discussion, but that it isn't special or unique to not have a favorite football team either, so talking about that wouldn't add a fresh perspective to the discussion. I'd just feel like a party pooper typing that I don't have one as a response to that hypothetical post). So I say nothing. Or people are arguing and getting hostile over it, and I am not interested in getting in a fight myself. Or what I do have to offer feels very very spammy and generic ("picture looks good!").
Seeing a lot of upvotes on a post or comment feels nice, seeing that mass social approval of whatever my contribution was. But I also never had any interest in engaging in low-effort posts to get that same reward. I also think the Lemmy hivemind disapproves of low-effort posts like that so such behavior would not be rewarded.
I do wonder what motivated people who made low-effort posts for karma, and why I don't seem to see it here even though we share an upvote/downvote system. Identifying that might help us at least figure out what not to do so that we do not set up a system that encourages that behavior. We do still clearly have the ability to see upvotes on posts and comments.
It is also possible I'm seeing low-effort posts but they are not rewarded as heavily and I mentally dismiss it as "just someone trying to get any activity going on the Fediverse at all." I sometimes just post a link and let it be because it's relevant to the community, I thought it was cool, and I'd like to see some Fediverse activity there but don't really have anything original to say. It's possible the low-effort posts are not rewarded not because the Lemmy hivemind disapproves of low effort but because they just don't see it in the tiny little community I posted in that receives maybe an average of 3 upvotes per post.
For what it's worth, I'm not using "Lemmy hivemind" in a derogatory fashion here, I just mean it as "the general sentiment of most Lemmy users".
What Redditisms are you speaking of? The OP seems to be talking normally, I don't really see any quips.
Well, that was touching.
I wonder what the Ditto's motive was. Just to cheer up a sad person? To find a trainer to befriend?
Also, I'd recommend crossposting to !pokemon@lemm.ee
I wonder how or if she's going to get Jelly's memories back.
Hey thanks for the information! I didn't even realize that was going to be the assumption, even though you are absolutely right about games with that kind of icon often having characters designed and animated with horny straight men in mind (even if non-horny straight men and people of other demographics enjoy it too).
Part of why some women like the game is because we have nice hair and clothing physics (first game I have played where I can put waist-long hair on a 3D character without it clipping into their back!) but no boob jiggles or clothing flying up to reveal underwear or the like. In my opinion the most sexualized thing at all is the fact that there is a clothing style called "sexy." Even these clothes feel very designed for the eyes of women, and very not designed for titillation purposes.
I keep forgetting I seem to be in the minority by refusing to touch c/All, thanks for letting me to know that the "daily" strategy captures what is probably the majority who will use c/All.
I do the same thing about referencing my communities, !otomegames@ani.social and !bunnies@lemmy.world with a link relevant, but thanks for the tip.
daily
I am kind of surprised. Communities with daily posts tend to be overwhelming if I have some communities posting a few times a week, so I've personally been sticking to a few times a week for posting. Good to know that some people actually want daily and that maybe that would be an actual growth strategy, instead of something that would make people feel spammed and thus something to purposely avoid doing. Genuinely, thanks for the advice. I'm just me and sometimes I guess incorrectly at how other people would feel.
(For something big like Gaming or Books or Anime I know to expect a few posts per day, just by sheer amount of people participating, but for NicheTitle I'd expect a few per week.)