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I can see that. To maybe overgeneralize, the people that are active on reddit today will consist primarily of the people that were inconvenienced by the protest. Quite a lot of them are pissed that they were inconvenienced. Support for the protest on the platform will kind of evaporate because the majority that understand why it was necessary are already gone.

Different platform, but exactly the same deal moderating Twitch chats. I think my favorite insult that I've received was that I was personally "the downfall of Western civilization."

The upshot to those disruptions happening in an active chat like that though is that everyone sees how much of a knob that person is being and is perfectly happy to see them gone.

Yeah, I don't have hard numbers or anything but I wouldn't be surprised if the active Reddit users today consisted more heavily of people that are pissed that they were inconvenienced by the blackout.

I saw that a short while ago and actually laughed out loud. The only thing left is to get the popcorn ready I guess because this is going to be hilarious.

After Unity's clarifications, I'm honestly kind of expecting the old "null-route the web address in the HOSTS file" to be a valid method to prevent their installer from phoning home to increment the counter. It's gonna be incredible if people start trying that just to frick with Unity.

The fact that we can even have this discussion should be proof enough to Unity that it's a complete non-starter of an idea to let user behavior influence the developer bottom-line.

Agreed, this whole Unity thing seemed more like they were surprised the peasants were revolting. Completely unaware of the danger of putting developer bills directly in to the hands of the end users, and not considering that a "trust me bro I counted how much you owe me" blackbox accounting method was too much to ask.

The best mods are the ones that have the good sense to turn down the position. ;P

I'm definitely interested in seeing how the single-user instance offerings develop across the various federated applications. I have no interest in taking on the role of admin or moderator for people I don't know personally, but am more than happy to run my own front-end service that'll let me lurk and interact with all varieties of ActivityPub content.

For now it seems kbin might win that fight for me since it's equipped to handle reddit-style communities and threads while also providing a workable microblog interface. But it does seem to be a bit on the heavy side... I wonder if we might see some software created for this particular usage scenario one day, if it isn't already being worked on somewhere.

Exactly. Reddit needing to force communities back open is the point. This protest is forcing Reddit to follow through on burning the bridge rather than just getting back to business as usual for free.

That's kind of where I'm at with the whole idea too. Should we be in such a situation, it just moves all our existing questions about "What is reality and the universe?" up one meta-level to the theoretical actual reality. I doubt we would stop finding out as much as is possible about this layer, but we would be wholly unable apply our findings or assumptions to the true reality.

But even if that true reality remains forever unknowable, it at least sets what I would consider some "sensible" bounds on our universe. As things are now, I'm not sure if I'm more dumbfounded by the idea of an infinite universe or a finite one - both boggle the mind for different reasons.

Yeah, I don't really expect any further voting on any given subreddit's side to be particularly successful from this point on because of that.

But honestly I'm kind of okay with a slower start on this side of things. If we see any kind of concentrated surge of users on to the various /kbin or Lemmy instances then I think we'll find out really quick where the breaking point is from an infrastructure and moderation standpoint. Like a few others have mentioned in this thread, we don't really need Reddit to die - we just need these alternatives to grow in to viable platforms in their own right.

Certainly a possibility, but I don't really expect it to be a common concern. Defederation is mostly about keeping problematic people out when an instance's admins either can't or won't resolve whatever problem is at play. Most instances will never even realize a single-user instance is lurking at all if they don't bother to crawl the logs and said user doesn't cause a scene.

I'd expect most whitelist-only instances will have been that way from the start instead of growing large and then shutting the door, because the goals of running an instance like that are fundamentally different.

I wouldn't consider myself a power user on ebook servers by any means, but I spun up Kavita a few weeks back and it definitely handles everything I need it to so far. Feels better to use than calibre IMO too.

Apple: "I play Lawyer in attack position."

It's free for Apple honestly, just for unauthorized use of their trademark alone.

Hit the nail on the head, I'd say. Some future competitive game that endeavors to weigh in an evaluation of personal contribution over just the binary win/loss condition and that implements ways to automatically mitigate the negatives enumerated for long duration matches is going to start off in a really good place.

Handling those issues honestly seems like Step 1 in tackling the kind of negativity that is notorious for cropping up in these sorts of games. If everyone's having a better time and doesn't feel punished for things outside of their control, it seems reasonable to assume that the baseline behavior will be a lot more chill.

Great recommendation. There's something special about doggedly tearing down those massive hulks of metal piece-by-piece and executing your plan of how to crack the thing wide open.

I finished that one up last week and loved it! Might be my GotY, honestly.

Sea of Stars is jumping straight to the top of my To Play list once that drops. I've heard great things about Chained Echoes too. I should make some time for it.

If I'm not careful, an entire afternoon will disappear before I notice if I fire up Trackmania. It's just so good at getting me in to a flow state of just really dialing in my gameplay.

100%. What an experience.

Journey is just One Of Those Games. I like to replay it once a year, usually on some quiet December evening when I can really just shut out the world and focus on a front-to-back play-through.

I'm making use of a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for this purpose actually. While I wouldn't necessarily recommend it just for the purposes of RSS, it's a nice addition to the platform for someone who happens to be running an instance for other reasons already. Most of the web-based RSS reader solutions I've come across relied on advertising or other premium membership models to support the service, so an alternative would have to be pretty damn compelling for me to transition away from Nextcloud and start subjecting myself to ads again.

Nah, it's per device install. So unless you modify your PC enough to generate a different hardware fingerprint or go install a game on a fleet of laptops or something, most people won't be running up that counter too much.