At least we’ll always have the ironic laugh at how the US, a country with guns for everyone, didn’t even get a tin medal in shooting the Olympics, and how the US, a country with the 2nd Amendment, can’t even kill a tyrant right.

Which means 15m people don’t mind being fascists, which functionally is the same as they actively want to be fascists.

But hey at least they don’t want to be Canada… I guess?

effectively forcing their own personal feed preferences on everyone who uses Lemmy

But… that’s how voting literally works. Hence one of the smartest ideas I saw once for Lemmy (and for the Fediverse in general) was to substitute upvoting/downvoting for “voting on tags”, such as being able to tag a post as “fake news”, “inspiring” or “AI generated” and have people vote on those instead of on the psot / comment proper. Alas, I don’t know what ever happened to that proposal, and could never find it again to track it down.

But, see, that’s the thing and that’s why there’s an important difference between blocking and downvoting:

If I block something bad, like say fake news or fascism or AI, I block it only for me, it’s only protecting myself; but if I downvote it, I also help protect my peers. If we want to make community, that’s very important. And like any measure, it can be gamed, but so long as it’s the one option we have, we gotta use like that. I expect AI slop to be batch-downvoted; if I didn’t, I’d be back at Reddit.

…What, being like Canada? 👀

punishing people for downvoting AI slop

Now that would be quite the turn… Downvoting AI slop is the basic human decency I’d expect from Lemmy.

Well, then kick him out. Or maybe guillotine him out, so that he doesn’t return.

Like, if people were actually that irked that he won, they’d be doing something. But no, from what I hear El Trumpo actually won the popular vote: the US wants to be fascist. Maybe Canada too. (No, not as in the US wants to be Canada… although that’d be an improvement…)

with the exception of completely removing the air bounce combo thing on the insect glave

they did WHAT???

Also the idea that monsters can’t hit you while you are in the air sounds like very bad news.

I don’t get to play the beta since I mainly drive a Linux laptop, so not even polygons for me. But I want to look around here for people’s experiences and see if polygons are enjoyable.

One thing that’s looking clear to me from other feedback to the open beta, is that this is a game where XKCD 606 strongly applies.

So basically they balked, went for a “more of the same”, then balked off that and went back? Can’t imagine why.

Then again XMPP / Jabber is so much easier to host, you can do it in the cheapest Linode VPS, yet communities don’t use it either.

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…something… does not compute.