Modern games have become too focused on providing a clean, balanced and no-real-obstacles experience. Sometimes I want to play a game that is a cohesive experience without being laser focused on some big idea about how I should play it. As an example, I’ve recently replayed arx fatalis. It’s really fun how you can do everything in that game that you’d want an npc for in any other. It’s also fun how each playstyle requires its own big chunk of knowledge about how the game works. Modern games try too hard to be minimalistic and fail to see the fun in a truly open experience. Even when you have options, they have all the fun pre-balanced and pre-optimized out of them. They give you too much info. No sense of discovery

lol, I might just put a small image of like 6 of them XD

Thanks for the kind words! I’ll keep 'em coming :)

I like Michael’s channel, he’s got a good technical backbone and is able to explain things simply and without leaving important nuance out. He also edits really well visually in his other videos, if you can’t catch up to technical jargon you’ll just see and hear what’s going on. That’s how tutorials should be!

Though I totally agree, most youtube tutorials are a way rougher trip, but so are any written blog posts and guides. And those are more difficult to verify because you need to research writer’s credentials, where as in a video you can already tell how good the producer is.

I am a really slow and inattentive reader, so visual instructions work better for me. I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea, so I try to post an overview in text on what the video actually explains. That way, I’m not wasting text that most users probably won’t read and try to give a good idea of what the video covers to those who do. Part of it is also done in the title. Let me know if you have any feedback relating to that, I’m always looking to improve my writing style!

Ah, yes, the OTT. I got it up there for ya!

Put it up! Thanks!

You made a second post that is the same, mind if I take this one down? Your previous one seems to work just fine, and I suppose if you were to try something else you could try the upload image feature next time? Instance servers allow for uploads.

I see. Though, with the rate we’re growing right now we might not stay small for very long, lol. I think keeping the quality bar where people don’t just post random stuff with no discussion whatsoever is quite important, and as long as everyone respects each other it should still feel like a small cozy place.

I’m gonna hold off on the decision until I see a bit more input, but if the general sentiment is that staying open is better, I’m not gonna go against the flow there. I just wish Lemmy devs added some features to counterbalance the fragmentation of the fediverse

Wrote a long winded-reply and my internet cut off when I sent it so I’ll keep it brief. I agree that we don’t want to centralize. However, Lemmy isn’t feature complete. I’d love us to have some more reach. I don’t need control over where that reach goes or how big this community gets, I just want it to be big enough to be functional. And functional means having enough folks with knowledge to help out new guys and being able to able to post a thread looking for advice and be likely to get replies. That’s all I want. And for that to be a reality, Lemmy needs to step up it’s cross-posting game from reddit. I don’t like the attitude of FOSS community with regards to things like Linux, that user experience issues is a user problem, not a software problem, “just use the console, bro”, though that’s been getting better over the years. I just have to disagree there, it’s only valid up to a certain point that is reached far too quickly. I feel like we shouldn’t make it harder on users than we absolutely have to.

That said, you’re right, I don’t own this c/ and I don’t dictate the rules. I just hope that the rules we can agree on will help us build a community that people want to join. That’s my goal.

Defederation is a double-edged sword. In the end, those who defederate will lock themselves into a smaller space and lose out on content produced by users outside of their instance. With how hard it currently is to discover content, a big instance defederating from lots of other instances with little good reason can easily backfire. At least that’s how I see it from what I currently understand about Lemmy.

I think people are trying to defederate to filter content, which is not something that defederating is good for right now, cause every big instance has a lot of diverse communities. Also, there’s been concerns about bots and safety which makes sense, but that doesn’t mean that we’re under risk of staying defederated permanently or for any significant amount of time. Moderation tools, content filtering and discovery needs to become much better before that resolved for everyone in a satisfying way.

As for /c/thedonald and communities like it specifically, it’s ridiculous to take what seems to me as satire as 100% serious straight up bigotry, but I do understand that we’ve seen communities with origins in satire turn to serious on the internet before. I think an instance-wide flag for communities that signals that the content is satire when you open them or see a post from them. Allow communities to be created with it from the start but only modifiable by admins afterwards, so you can’t take it away or add it after a community is made. It might just work to mitigate this problem and help punish rule breaking quicker and easier.