Picking MMO servers, really? Which MMO is that? I’m genuinely asking - I’ve never played many MMOs, but every one that I’ve known has had a single persistent world.

I know you’re joking but I don’t like this take, even as a joke. They’re people, and hurting them is violence. It just also happens to be the right course of action.

Honestly, punching a nazi is the most loving thing you can do for them in the moment that they’re being nazis, because it shatters their delusion of superiority, and that gives them a chance to change, and a life of hate is not a good life. It’s miserable.

You ever see this gif?

Honestly an improvement in that guy’s life. Witnesses said he took off his armband after he woke up. Did he lose his fascist ideas, or just learn they were extremely unpopular and got a violent reaction? Whatever it was, he learned that going around dressed as a nazi was a bad idea, and that’s progress however you slice it.

So rather than “nazis aren’t people” I prefer “punching a nazi is an act of love”.

BJ saw it in 60s US, and you know what he did?

He got to work.

I just looked it up, very positive reviews and very cheap. No mention of boobies in the feature list but it has this:

Key features:

• First Ever Open-World Paris

Thank god, FINALLY someone did it.

I don’t know that they’ve ever been profitable. They might be a loss-leader in some way, feeding into google’s ad ecosystem somehow, or maybe it was always just theoretically profitable in the future in some ill-defined way that allowed the money to keep flowing. Who knows.

All I know is, if they follow the pattern the rest of them have, they aren’t going to be sustainable long-term.

That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

Honestly youtube barely has it currently. The vast majority of creators make very little on the platform and rely largely on supporter donations, merch and sponsorships, which could work on any platform.

By squeezing creators out of every penny they can, youtube has forced people to find other options abd made themselves less and less relevant. I guess that’s enshittification for you.

You can also gate access to certain videos on peertube, so a nebula-like model might also work eventually.

I have not but that does sound good. Although I’m thinking something a lot more grounded and realistic, like ARMA style maybe.

Oh my god we need John Brown simulator. Old western setting, open world, muskets, horses and hand-drawn maps, tracking down slavers and stalking them across the prairie and conducting raids on their properties.

“Nazi” x5

There’s all the explanation you need.

I can’t wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it’s got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

But you then need to unlearn a lifetime and career of pattern recognition.

I think this is honestly how Trump gets people who haven’t learned critical thinking. It’s all vibes and insinuation, so it sucks you into finishing his thoughts for him. And you think, “well actually that sounds reasonable”, because of course it does, because it sounds like you.

It exploits your natural impulse to meet the other person halfway and do the work for them. But Trump isn’t trying at all, he’s just doing pure word-association, and he’s not your friend. I think anyone who’s prone to unhealthy parasocial bonding is especially vulnerable to it.

I remember hearing his speeches when he was first coming to power and realising how seductive that pull was. I was constantly having to slap my own hand away from taking charge of where the sentences were going, and really pay attention to what he was actually saying, and it was always nonsense with a healthy dose of hatred, but usually couched in language that sounded vaguely personable, like, “Hey, we’re all friends here, you get it, what I’m saying, right?”

If you already agreed with him, it would be easy.

I think the last two games I bought at some high premium launch price were GTAV and Cyberpunk 2077.

That second one still stings. I played it longer than I should’ve probably because of the price, and I’ve not bothered with the DLC, even though people said it fixed the game. The price just left a bad taste in my mouth.

Hey, question about Voyager, I’m using it, and if I’m on my main feed and hit the back button, it opens a list of subs, and there seems to be nothing I can do to get back to the feed without refreshing it. It’s veru frustrating because I keep losing track of the post I was just about to tap on. Do you know anything about this?

The smaller alternatives will get bigger as the mainstream social media gets worse and worse. The job for us, in whatever way we can, is to build the alternatives and make them ready to handle the influx, and make them welcoming to new people.

Is the CEO trying to short the stock or are they just that out of touch?