Yeah exactly, most the people I communicate with using accounts linked to my real name are people I know in real life. I’m not ashamed of my opinions or hobbies, it’s not like I’m posting gay furry oc - that’s what alt accounts are for…
My controversial opinion is that candy crush is actually brilliant, yeah they want you to buy gold but it’s more fun not to. The same goes for a lot of advert funded / in app purchase games - they’re fantastic mobile games if you ignore the money option.
Morrowind ports and similar aren’t great mobile games, they’re great games but candy crush I can pull out my pocket when I’m waiting for a bus and get totally drawn into a few rounds. Airport control is another example, draw lines to direct landing planes and avoid a crash - super simple and repetitive but its complexity grows, cut the rope likewise is a true game in my definition because you learn skills and develop your personal ability beyond just learning game mechanics. They’re engaging and enjoyable with a complexity ramp and nice easy to understand ui and graphics - they’re everything a mobile game should be.
There are some great horror and story games too, especially the Indy ones
That’s how a lot of open source works tbh, often devs have jobs to make money and work on their project in free time then if the project gains traction they start making enough off donations or whatever to drop their other work.
Yeah that would be a good solution but not what the law proposes, the problem is the government isn’t getting to do the right thing either it’s just a knee jerk responce to a new thing existing.
I take it you’ve never delivered and don’t understand how the platform works?
The law change would mean that people can’t do things like multiapp or choose to only do one or two deliveries then stop for a bit, this ruins the flexibility which most people want when choosing to do it
So if they pass this people will be able to sign onto the app, ignore the deliveries and demand 18 an hour? So they’ll have to start firing anyone that doesn’t accept deliveries when offered and refuse people sign on when there aren’t enough orders to go round, etc… end result making it harder for people to earn by delivering food, making food delivery more expensive, but it strikes a blow against something new so everyone will feel like they’re winning.
Yeah but that will change over time, I think we’ve got the potential to make much better tech communities than Reddit had especially as this increasingly becomes the defacto nerd hangout
I think it’ll take time but as things settle a bit I wouldn’t be shocked to see a lot of uses spring up that draw in users without them really being aware they’re even using the fediverse.
For example one of the main draws to Reddit was always the tech knowledge of the users but us nerds are all here now so it’s only a matter of time before Twitter and Facebook have screenshots of Lemmy posts rather than Reddit posts, all the rabbit holes that used to lead to Reddit will start pointing here.
There are already interesting bots being written for communities here, I saw a chat GPT one and no doubt anyone making a fun toy is far more likely to design it to work here where it’s not going to have API access destroyed and everything is more flexible - I know that next bot I write will be for lemmy rather then Reddit which I’d normally use. I might even get round to writing the community RPG game that was going to work on its own subreddit, I could have it as a custom instance instead and allow members of federated communities to play.
There’s so many more possibilities and as they evolve they’ll slowly draw people over and when they have their toe in I suspect meny will stay. I’ve got a hundred ideas for things to make and with ai coding helping I’ll probably actually get round to finishing a dozen of them before the end of the year - I went to try new ways of visualising discussions, of working together and against each other to reach a common goal, I want to make games and mobile apps that work with communities in interesting ways and this is the perfect platform to do it on so I know I don’t be the only one
It’s so sad that the war on drugs people Keep making their rediculous arguments against it now there are so many places where it’s legal and nothing has happened beside increased tax revenue and lives no longer being ruined by the police.
Maryland started selling recreational a few days ago and if you weren’t looking for it you’d barely notice, certain shops now sell good quality, fairly priced weed to anyone over 21, society hasn’t collapsed.
It also makes it more dangerous for kids because when they can’t access moderated legal porn then they’ll go to communities that exist to avoid censorship which of course are likely to contain far worse stuff and possibly involve communication with far worse people.
Yeah this information has always been available up spez and co
Bit crypto does that by publicly recording all transactions on the Blockchain, this is kinda the same thing in that it’ll not just about being told ‘in total sixteen people agree’ and having to belive spez that he hasn’t just invented the number, it’s seeing who voted and how.
You can of course have more than one account and keep your identity private similar to crypto where your transactions are public but the owner of the walker can be private
This isn’t a corporation advertising to get your business it’s a collective movement of people working to create a better internet, I totally understand you not liking politics but the reality of this world is that politics is important - the people runnning instances are generally doing it with their own time and money simply because they believe in the importance of the project, of course these are going to be people with strong principles.
Personally I think having a complex ecosystem is going to be a great thing when it’s had time to emerge and settle but yeah for now it’s all a bit new and up in the air but that’s part of the fun
First I would bang on a neighbor’s door and pay them to follow me with a camera then run into the fairly nearby motorbike shop and yell ‘quick I’m doing a Mr Beast challenge I need to spend a million dollars in the next half hour!’ all four guys working would jump at it especially if I said ‘give yourself 10% commission on each one’
The only other shop near that isn’t just groceries is a wedding dress shop so I guess while they’re getting the paperwork ready I’d run in and buy their most expensive white gowns so that we could ride in style - though the train might get caught in the chain…
Oh and I’d run into the pub and tell them to ring up as much as possible before the time runs out so we can all go there after to relax.
Oh now there’s a game I could really play on a long journey, is it on play store?