AwesomeLowlander

That sounds like a you problem, not a them problem, as far as they’re concerned

Funny, there’s a lot of people on lemmy itself (especially around dbzer0) who would agree with the judge wholeheartedly.

What’s the defaultism here?

IDK about that, the Saudis have like a million units sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

It’s not me wanting everything. It’s me not wanting fucking MTX and FOMO mechanics in games I paid for.

I wasn’t referring to the DLC, I was referring to their login bonus cosmetic skins, and trying to sell me paid cosmetics in a game that I already paid for.

I loved the game, but fuck tencent, and klei for selling out

Given how much ONI in the past couple years leaned in to the MTX plague, I’m staying away from this one.

We actually don’t. This won’t kill AI, this will mean only conglomerates like Disney can own AI.

proton with steam and add the cracked games to steam though that carries a significant risk of a ban

Never heard that, and can testify that’s absolute nonsense.

Not sure how much you’d want to trust his list. During the Luigi incident many users were instance banned simply for supporting Luigi, and the bans stand to this day. His ban list is not just malicious users but people he disagrees with.

ActivityPub*

Why? Proton works really well nowadays. As long as it runs, who cares if it’s native Linux?

Threat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?

Yeah, it’s one of the factors causing echo chambers to form online.

Not that I doubt you, I just don’t understand how a user bidirectional block works when other instances don’t support the feature.

Tell me more about this apple up your ass

Tell me more about this apple up your ass

Edit: Replied to wrong comment

How does that work from a technical perspective? Do non-piefed users still see you?

I’m not sure how or why it hasn’t been mentioned yet, but one reason blocking is the way it is, is because in a public forum like this, blocking somebody else from seeing your content is extremely open to abuse, while providing no real benefit from a protection perspective. As accounts are essentially free and unlimited, any malicious user can logout or spin up a new account to bypass your block.

On the abuse issue, it was previously shown with some testing on Reddit that by posting something offensive and controversial, then blocking everybody who responded in a negative manner, you could within 3 - 5 rounds of blocking reach the point where you could post practically anything and have it seen like a popular opinion, since everybody who disagreed with you and was willing to call out your bullshit couldn’t see it any more. Hence technical reasons aside, there are very good systemic reasons the blocking mechanism works the way it does.

The article linked to a list of applicable research. https://news.engin.umich.edu/2019/09/most-powerful-laser-in-the-us-to-be-built-at-michigan/