I’m in the process myself, definitely feeling good about it; the plugins alone make it worth it.

I love how targeting yourself with ads relevant to your interests is presented as something advantageous for us. Sorry, I don’t desire to be constantly prodded to take interest in new gadgets and cat foods.

Holy shit there’s a way to avoid recommendations coming soon???

Can this be the social media trend for the rest of 2023? Please?

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I have an gaming buddy that is waaaaaaaaay down the conspiracy rabbit hole, I wish I had the energy and position to help him. Another friend of mine that is closer to him says he’s gone, she’s been trying for years to talk him out of it. He has a constant stream of right wing insanity on in the background of his house.

You’re doing a wonderful thing for this young man

COBOL, because I loathe myself and don’t want to be happy

I’ve never met anyone who hasn’t watched cartoons where animals pretend to be people before, what a day.

The Mega Man 2 soundtrack has been my favorite VGS since the mid eighties. The “introduction” music is what you hear when the main screen loads after you start the game, and has always given me little chills that I’m about to experience an amazing game.

https://youtu.be/lDC4X8Dgxr4

You don’t have anything to worry about. Chatgpt is super useful but it’s not great at wholesale coding

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just yet

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I don’t know anything about chess but these squares aren’t colorful enough. I think we need some new colors.

Mmmm, gotta love that enshittification strategy every big tech company is working on right now.

Smite or maybe another MOBA, because that’s what I already do and I apparently hate myself.

A factory game called shapez.

I’m feeling really good about the Fedivere.

I started out being “social” on the Internet with IRC in 1994 and it was so exciting to have people in my computer to talk to; it felt so cutting edge and so much cooler than chat rooms on AOL and such.

Then I moved into StumbleUpon, which was my first link aggregation type of site. Not much social about it but it let you pick categories and you could submit links to it. I found tons of awesome and weird stuff on it, it was like discovering a “find cool shit” button on my browser; I’d click that button for hours, for better or worse. I don’t know how popular SU was but it felt so innovative to me; I was so sad it was gone one day or at least just a shell of it’s former self.

Digg came next, and I had no idea what it was but once I got into it it was amazing; new interesting/funny stuff and a community that comments on it, everyone was hilarious and clever. We all know where that went.

Then it was Reddit, it felt like such a breath of fresh air after digg. It has all the edge of old digg and hilarious commentary that I liked from digg, without since of the stifling ideas that digg had. I have a fond memory of holding back laughter while sitting in a waiting room every week; of course there was no Reddit app back then so I used Reddit is Fun. And I never stopped until last week.

Fedivere has that vibe for me again. I loved the insane amount of content and communities that Reddit has with it’s 13+ years of history and Internet culture. But it’s just time to move on. Fedivere will probably have hiccups and might even fail to get a meaningful grip but this is such an interesting take on the social link aggregation site and I’m really excited to see where it goes! Thanks to all the hard work being done behind the scenes!

I think it’s a really good move. Keep everyone together while we’re smaller, and then as one or two games start to dominate the feed (Fortnite or LoL or something) they can split those communities out so they can explore their niche game needs without annoying the rest of the users, and just keep doing that indefinitely.

Awesome thanks!

Omg the look in their eye 🥹

I’m kinda there with you. My cousin has two chocolate labs and every time I’m at their house I hear their name combined with the word “stop it!” Or “get down” or some other variant every 5 minutes or so. I’m sorry, dogs are just inferior cats. Cats are pet perfection.

I’ve been unwillingly playing Fortnite for the last two years. I like competitive gaming with friends but big map BR games are just so boring for about 90% of the time you play them. Just soooo much running around. I consider time spent looking for opponents to be pretending to play a game.