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I’m not surprised.

It reminds me of a maze I made for a game server. I laid out my paths and then looked from above and realized that some intersecting corridors had accidentally formed a swastika. Upon noticing it, I thought “oops”, and adjusted the maze to remove it. I didn’t stubbornly leave it in because it wasn’t intended to be that, I recognized what it looked like and immediately knew I didn’t want it in something I designed.

If I were making a board game and I realized I’d just about put the SS logo in it as a resource marker, I’d do the same and just change the marker. Easy. I think most people would if they noticed it. When someone makes the decision to instead include it, it might mean that they just didn’t notice. But it also might mean that they did notice and give zero shits about being associated with nazi imagery, even if they weren’t intentionally going out of their way to include it.

This dev may not be a straight up nazi, but they certainly don’t seem to give a shit about being associated with or known for espousing bigotry.

A quick search and this all makes a lot of sense.

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3158444/do-not-support-terraforming-marsfryxgames-ownerceo/page/1

The printer knows it’s being used to make a nazi symbol and it’s revolting.

Blocking is completely unrelated to free speech. You having the right to say something does not imply that anyone should actually have to listen.

I’d probably do less blocking if I could downvote instead. Not sure if that’s good or bad.

Fuck this nazi bag of shit.

Eh. Not really very effectively. Misskey does a half decent job of talking to Mastodon and Lemmy, but Lemmy and Mastodon do a pretty poor job of talking to each other and I think Misskey is more compatible with Lemmy than Lemmy is with Misskey, if that makes sense.

If you use Misskey or whatever it calls itself now, it works well with Mastodon and okay with Lemmy.

Yeah, there’s a version of using AI to help with coding that’s more along the lines of cobbling together pieces from tutorials to figure out how to do something and making it fit your needs rather than just straight up asking for code and blindly adding it. It’s obviously not going to be as good as code from someone experienced who’s managed to internalize the relevant documentaion, but it’s at least informed by a human who understands what it’s doing

What do you meeaaan? Stoats are fucking adorable!

I literally use Piefed every single day and am enthusiastic about the growth of the Fediverse. If it can’t even take internal criticism from regular users with a vested interest it isn’t ready for outside interest.

Most of them have Patreon for that, which actually produces income.

What’s the incentive? All they would be doing is pushing views away from platforms where having viewers actually benefits them, either through metrics or income or both.

Honestly the best way to get that going might be to have a company and offer sponsorship deals with the requirement that creators also post to Peertube. But that would require companies having a reason to want people on Peertube.

Yeah, agreed. The one thing the platforms you see that aren’t YouTube that creators actually use have in common is financial incentive. Nebula is the best example here. Creators get a cut and have more creative freedom, so they actually use it and try to direct their audience to it for bonus content, which seems to actually work. Patreon is similar for a lot of creators, letting them put out additional content with fewer restrictions and letting them get more income from their viewers.

Some people also seem to have some success with independent platforms. If you look at like a Dropout or Viva Plus, these are both putting stuff out on YouTube and then drawing users in with subscriptions, and that seems to be a sound model.

But Peertube produces zero dollars for creators, which means they have no incentive to push users there. In fact, they’re incentivized to avoid doing so because there are other platforms that will actually pay them if they can direct traffic there. Peertube lacks both the money-making side of things and the exposure side of things, so there’s no real reason to use it.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see something independent like Peertube take off, but the model doesn’t really work.

I mean, the way to use Lemmy/Piefed is to have multiple accounts. You don’t need to “migrate” anything, just start using it.

I do see this tendency from people coming from reddit to kind of fetishize the “status” of their accounts and try to preserve everything they’ve ever said as if anyone cares, but that seems both unhealthy and unrealistic. Nobody is digging through your posts from 6 months ago for content, and no one will care that you haven’t reposted all your passing thoughts to a new instance.

If you look at the users who are active across multiple accounts, they’re recognizable without worrying about what instance they’re on. Like I have no idea what instances Stamets or cm0002 or whatever are using at the moment or how many of their posts exist where and I don’t really care. I read my current feed, comment a little, post once in a while, and it seems like that’s what most people do.

Do you walk around with a tape recorder meticulously archiving every spoken conversation you have in real life? Would such a thing make your interactions more significant? Just keep that shit in your brain and the collective memory of interactions with others and get on with your life.

Peertube isn’t really a viable alternative. There isn’t a substantial enough audience for creators and there isn’t really enough content for an audience. I guess if you’re one of the 100 people watching transport evolved that’s cool but it isn’t really a meaningful alternative. I suppose it could be supplementary, but why would creators want to drive their traffic to a site that doesn’t actually matter for their visibility? I imagine the same probably applies to loops.

Also, like, with video you kind of want a reliable host that you know isn’t going anywhere.

The rest are okay as long as you’re not super worried about how many people are seeing what you post. Lemmy and Piefed are great for content aggregation and discussion, but they seem to be the only ones that at this point actually do anything that might be helpful.

I’ve tried Mastodon and while it’s way better than Twitter it isn’t exactly providing a way to reach a substantial audience. Personal websites are probably a better bet for ease of access.

You forgot having to be flexible enough to not have any particular workflow that works for you personally. Linux is great if you don’t need to use anything that doesn’t have a comparable equivalent.

How so? Aldi is pretty dramatically different from every other grocery store here, both in how they’re set up and in their prices.

Looks like it’s mostly being covered by left-wing and neutral sources.