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Didn’t another car manufacturer have a similar “glitch” with in-car ads fairly recently? This story feels so familiar.

Good! Hopefully more devs follow suit and pull traffic away from Fandom.

Also hopeful that they manage to fix the SEO on the site, as Fandom is still the top result for “Vampire Survivors wiki”.

Anything to avoid discussing TES6.

I believe it’s supposed to be more of a spiritual successor to The Sims.

You had a golden opportunity to say we are an old school tech company

Sony doesn’t want to tread on Nintendo’s turf.

Uhh, isn’t that kinda against the whole point of being a spokesperson in the first place? To put a name and a face behind a message?

Dunno why The Verge plays along.

I’ve been wanting a replacement for ages now. The problem is that Discord does everything it does very well (with a few exceptions), way better than any of its competitors. It’s incredibly hard to replace, because no other product really matches it in any category. Cost, ease of use, feature set, cross-app API support… Nobody else comes close; even if you paid a ton of money for premium services to replace Discord, you’re still likely going to downgrade your overall experience.

I really want to see more competition in this space.

I’m pretty sure that just doing “quick searches” is exactly how he ended up with AI answers to begin with.

Which is an outcome I actually worry about, if they implemented this feature in Funkwhale. A fascist fork of the app existing and having a userbase gives it legitimacy. It immediately sells itself to those people: “Come to our free speech music platform” will bring in a lot of new users, very easily.

“Man who works 10 hours per year tells underlings to work 60 hours per week.”

I’m a bit torn on the idea, myself. On one hand, fuck fascists, don’t let ‘em have an inch. But on the other hand, this does kinda take away a users’ freedoms with the software.

Honestly, I think it’s fine if it’s a plugin or something that you can install at your own discretion or something. Or if it’s baked-in, it should be an opt-in setting. I’m of the opinion that the actual software, itself, should be apolitical. It’s something I can respect the Lemmy devs for, after all; even though I disagree with their politics, the actual Lemmy code is politically agnostic, and I think that’s for the best.

Dang, there went all my legitimate plans for signal jamming.

Dammit, Bobby!

Oh that makes sense, thanks!

I can’t see any posts from the last year when viewing that from Mbin. Which is weird because I’m also somehow already subscribed to it, so I should be seeing newer posts.

For me, it’d be Prime. The game just oozes atmosphere from start to finish, and has one of my favorite game soundtracks of all time. I still sometimes listen to the Phendrana Drifts tracks because they’re just so damn chill.

Keep in mind, it’s not a real score. That’s only what that user sees, based on upvotes from servers their instance is federated with. My instance is federated with a different list of servers, so my score for you is slightly different at 25584. Somebody on a third mbin instance will likely see a similar, but still different score.

You know, just things that nobody really needs to begin with, right?

I just hope that in the future people will avoid using software names in their server branding, because it only confuses people.

100% this. For instance, one would think that “Lemmy World” is something that’s officially related to the Lemmy project development. But in actuality, the “official” Lemmy instance would be Lemmy.ML, which is notoriously defederated from many of the big players in this space. It’s all very misleading to the uninitiated user.

Herein lies a problem I’ve had for a while, actually. It’s hard to tell people about Lemmy, because “Lemmy” isn’t really a website, or an app, or even a platform, really. It’s a protocol that anybody can use. For instance, we’re not really posting comments here on Lemmy, as much as we are posting comments via Lemmy. Right now, I’m posting a comment on Lemmy World via Lemmy, from Fedia. The average new user is very quickly gonna get lost in the sauce with that.

So even the main recruitment page, “Join Lemmy”, is kinda misleading because how do you join a protocol? It’s kinda like saying “enlist with TCP/IP” or “create an account on HTTPS”. Like… what does that even mean to a user? It leads most people into thinking that “Lemmy” is some centralized community with a hub of some sort, which is ironically antithetical to everything Lemmy stands for in the first place.

I think one solution to this would be to stop referring to things as being “on Lemmy”, and instead use terms like “a Lemmy site” or “a Lemmy instance”, which I think would help articulate the fact that “Lemmy” is a piece of software and not the community, itself. So when trying to refer friends to join a Lemmy instance, we should use the instance’s name, instead of “Lemmy”. But this brings about another problem; how does an instance form an identity to begin with?

Take Lemmy World here, for example: What is LW’s “identity”? What kind of site is this? What’s it about? What is the community here for? It’s called Lemmy World, so is it about the Lemmy software? To the outsider, it just looks like an off-brand Reddit; which may be what some are looking for, but there’s no real identity to be found in that.

You do have some instances that are a bit more focused, however, and have a distinct “identity” about them. Unfortunately, a lot of those are defederated from the major instances because of those identities (Lemmy.ML, Hexbear, etc). But there are also a lot of really good ones like the solarpunk or literature instances, and interestingly enough, LemmyNSFW, which all have their own focused subject matters but are still part of the Fediverse at large. When you sign up to one of those instances, you know what kind of community you’re getting involved with. You’re there for a reason, just like everybody else.

I think Beehaw does a good job in this, specifically; even though they’re a “general purpose” instance much like Lemmy World, they have very clear guidelines and expectations for how users behave and what they post, which helps solidify its identity. If I tell you “think of a Beehaw user”, you can probably concoct an idea in your head about what that person is like. If I tell you “think of a Lemmy World user”… can you even narrow it down enough to create a caricature at all?

I don’t have any real point to all this, just rambling about some frustrations I’ve had for a while with the terminology of things around here. I dunno what the solution should really be.