DaughterOfMars

joined 1 year ago
[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is really cool! But -- and I mean no disrespect -- it's not really Tarot (or at least not the Major Arcana). Tarot is about symbology, whereas these cards are akin to the Minor Arcana royalty -- Page, Knight, Queen, and King. The art of the Major Arcana is specifically designed to contain certain symbols which can be used for readings. Of course, there are plenty of decks out there that do not conform to this, but they aren't particularly useful as Tarot. It would be really cool to recreate this symbology as Major Arcana cards in the context in Elden Ring though!

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we please get rid of these people who insist on remaining uninformed and then going out and spreading their ignorance by attacking others? It's contrary to the vision of this instance to allow them to continue this behavior.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

At least for now always sorting by new is very pleasant.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a somewhat reductive statement, I'll give you that, but I think the core idea is true. Most people will go to the easiest solution. Lemmy's userbase may continue to grow for some time, but it will not reach anywhere close to the level of reddit. I think it's foolish to point to the trends from the last week and try to draw conclusions about the future, as this is clearly an extraordinary circumstance.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you really think the average person knows or cares about that? No, of course not. They will congregate on the most populous instance so long as it continues to support the traffic.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a lot of chaos around the migration, no surprises there. We can't change the past, but we can set goals to make the future better.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

You're pointing out the exact problem that I am describing: Users will naturally flock to the largest, most stable instances, thus centralizing lemmy and removing the benefit of federation.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (9 children)

The reality is that reddit still exists, and is still more user-friendly (and that's a low bar). It's great that lemmy is getting this bump, but it won't last unless we make it easy to switch for most people. If lemmy was good enough to be a reddit alternative already, it would be. But it's not, and the only reason people are here is because of the protest.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't had any interest in FF games since the original 7, but I played the demo after I saw it on the store just for fun. I think I'm gonna buy this one.

Other than some gripes and annoyances, it's fucking fun. Closer to dark souls combat than the weird ATB stuff they've had for a while.

The writing is surprisingly okay, albeit with some cringe lines here and there and and overall trope-ey lore. Some of the exposition actually didn't feel totally out of place!

My biggest concern is about grind, as is the case with much of the series, but we'll see I guess.

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm not familiar with Hubzilla, but it sounds like one possible solution!

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Absolutely! Don't fool yourself into thinking this will be the only time this happens. Some instance owners will never be willing or able to manage their servers as well as the big players, and that means bad actors can creep into other instance through them!

[–] DaughterOfMars@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, I think there are other alternatives to accomplish a similar goal. It may be that lemmy will build in its own syncing of some kind. The method doesn't really matter much to me.

 

In my opinion, there are two big things holding Lemmy back right now:

  1. Lemmy needs DIDs.

    No, not dissociative identity disorder, Decentralized Identities.

    The problem is that signing up on one instance locks you to that instance. If the instance goes down, so does all of your data, history, settings, etc. Sure, you can create multiple accounts, but then it's up to you to create secure, unique passwords for each and manage syncing between them. Nobody will do this for more than two instances.

    Without this, people will be less willing to sign up for instances that they perceive "might not make it", and flock for the biggest ones, thus removing the benefits of federation.

    This is especially bad for moderators. Currently, external communities that exist locally on defederated instances cannot be moderated by the home-instance accounts. This isn't a problem of moderation tooling, but it can be (mostly*) solved by having a single identity that can be used on any instance.

    *Banning the account could create the same issue.

  2. Communities need to federate too.

    Just as instances can share their posts in one page, communities should be able to federate with other, similar communities. This would help to solve the problem of fragmentation and better unify the instances.

Obviously there are plenty of bugs and QoL features that could dramatically improve the usage of Lemmy, but these two things are critical to unification across decentralized services.

What do you think?

EDIT: There's been a lot (much more than I expected) of good discussion here, so thank you all for providing your opinions.

It was pointed out that there are github issues #1 and #2 addressing these points already, so I wanted to put that in the main post.

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