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Zagorath

@ Zagorath @lemm.ee

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  • Hashtags do not replace groups.

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  • Oh right. No, it doesn't work that way in my experience. I've seen Mastodon users post to Lemmy Communities by @ mentioning them, and Mastodon users replying to posts. It often looks weird because replies have an @ mention (or multiple, in the case of replies to replies), but everything shows up in Lemmy how you'd want it to.

  • John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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  • Eh, Lemmy is way more mature as a platform than PixelFed is, and he mentioned that.

    I think the explanation being in relation to what it's intended to replace is more likely. He doesn't care as much about getting people off Reddit as he cares about getting people off Zuck and Musk's platforms.

  • Hashtags do not replace groups.

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  • Why yikes? The scenario you described is literally the same as 50,000 users signing up to Lemmy to post in a Lemmy Community.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • I would have put it in less harsh terms, but yes, basically this.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • LW definitely can't handle more traffic than it already has. It already (thanks to the admins' refusal to update to the latest version of Lemmy, which fixes this issue) takes multiple days for LW content to get federated to other instances properly, which is why I've had to switch over to this alt account of mine because there are zero comments on this post in my main instance. With more users, that delay would grow from days to potentially weeks.

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • IMO bridgy is not well designed. The fact that it requires both the follower and the followee to specifically opt in basically makes it DOA. Both Mastodon and BlueSky are completely open and public in terms of post visibility, so bridgy should have been designed to require explicit opt outs from anyone who didn't want their content bridged.

  • It do be like that

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  • Sorry for the late reply, I don't use this account very often.

    But by "it", I meant "entering characters using the HTML entity code". But I can see how my comment could have been interpreted to mean the nbsp itself.

  • It do be like that

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  • On platforms that support it (Reddit definitely did, and I suspect Lemmy will), you can enter the nonbreaking space with  . 0 mg.

  • Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds

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  • The law would probably make sure customers whose products are being bricked are counted as creditors. Ideally after employees (unpaid wages) and before investors. They may not get full refunds, but they'll be entitled to something if it's possible.

  • I'm afraid we've been bamboozled

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  • I like that in Fahrenheit 0 is a cold winter's day, and 100 is a hot summer's day.

    Fahrenheit fans always say stuff like this, but it just doesn't work. 100 isn't too bad in that respect, but 0 is just insane. If you want it to be equivalent, 0 °F would be 0 °C. Because there's no way that -18 °C is as cold as 38 °C is hot.

    Besides that, knowing about things like snow or ice outside, whether your fridge is likely to cause some stuff to frost over, etc., or whether the thing you're cooking has reached boiling point are all just as valid things for your day-to-day experience.

    But besides all that, SI is a package deal. You use Fahrenheit and now you've got to redefine all the other units that are derived from the Kelvin, because now you're suddenly using Rankine.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • I appreciate it, and if I ever do get around to doing something about aoe2 or aoe4 I may use that instance, or if I see someone else express interest in creating game-related communities I'll recommend they head in your direction. But for now I've already created it on this instance, and don't see the benefits as being strong enough to outweigh that.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • [Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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  • I don't think the hobby drama subreddit back on the old site required the drama to be on-site. You could post about the time WotC tried to revoke their OGL, or when Hans Niemann allegedly used an anal vibrator to cheat at chess, or things like that.

  • [Weekly thread] How are you doing with your communities?

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  • Ooh, I should get a good photo of my bike for !oldtimers_youngtimers@lemmy.blahaj.zone. It's a hand-me-down from my dad's old racing days and the bike's older than I am, and it was my faithful day-to-day commuting bike until I realised the bottom bracket was busted.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • Yeah I really like the idea of topic-based instances. There are some issues doing it that way with discovery, and potentially with what happens when communities split (see for example what happened with !risa@startrek.website splitting to !tenforward@lemmy.world), but on the whole I really like the way it can reduce the drama caused by entirely unrelated factors. I'm a big fan of ttrpg.network for that reason, and I guess you could describe my main home instance of aussie.zone as being one, too.

    I'm curious about that business. With so many Mastodon and other fediverse instances available for free to anyone, what's the business model for a paid service?

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • Yeah sort of, but it's not quite as convenient as me being able to take lemm.ee/post/41243313 and change it to aussie.zone/post/41243313. Obviously, for that to work, the IDs would have to be non-sequential: probably the easiest/dumbest way to do it would be with UUIDs, which are pretty massive to use in a URL, so I don't really blame the designers for doing it how they did. But it would be nice.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • It's not so much a new game as a remaster of the old game. Back in like 2016 they announced they were making Age of Empires 4 and also "Definitive Editions" of 1, 2, and 3. The DEs came out in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and AoE2 and 3 DE were both really good and successful. Then a couple of years ago they announced Age of Mythology was getting a similar treatment. It came out for people who ordered the Premium Edition last Wednesday, and releases to the general audience tomorrow. So far it's been a massive success critically both in mainstream gaming press and with Age players.

    edit: AoE2 DE did a fantastic job of unifying disparate communities. Before it, most low-level casuals played on the 2013 HD edition and most high-level and pro players played on Voobly with fan patches based on the original CD version of the game. After DE, everyone plays DE. The same seems to be coming true for AoM. Previously there was a split between Voobly and the 2014 "Extended Edition" (which also included some very controversial patches around 2016 to coincide with an equally-controversial expansion DLC). But already it seems as though people are embracing the "Retold" edition of the game, whether casual or pro.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • Oh wow, I didn't even realise you could do relative links like that in Lemmy.

    It's a shame post IDs aren't globally unique so you could do something like that with individual posts.

  • Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game

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  • Oh neat. I've never even seen that instance before. I was thinking at some point I might get around to creating an aoe4 community too, and possibly creating an aoe2 one on a less controversial instance than the current !aoe2@lemmy.ml (and with a mod who's not inactive). But I've my hands full already so I won't be doing that too soon.

  • [Closed] Moved to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip @lemm.ee
    Zagorath @lemm.ee

    Created a new community, !aom@lemm.ee, for the newly-released Age of Mythology game