@gamingonlinux You joke, but I would like to play this in VR, with the new headset that Valve is rumoured to work on that's wireless. I loved my time with the Quest 2 a year ago (before I sold it), but I'm not buying any wired headset again.
How many of you see this account's avatar in a circle rather than a square/squircle? 🤔
Edit: TYSM for the quick responses, folks. Reason: I updated the account avatar earlier and wanted to check the black speed bubble part wasn't getting clipped by rounded avatar apps/etc.
@omgubuntu Seeing a square. I am using the default web app.
FYI, there are themes that various instances can set up, that can modify things like the shape of the avatars. There is, for example, Bird UI: https://github.com/ronilaukkarinen/mastodon-bird-ui. As the name suggest, it leans heavily on Twitter.
This order was done specially for Tokyo Xanadu.
While I had the Vita version since launch, I just want to make sure I have the PS4 one as well.
And the European release is insanely expensive, so I jumped on the US version as I found it for €22!
The other PS4 games were ridiculously cheap at €12, so I couldn't resist.
Will seems to be sold out everywhere, so I quickly grabbed this copy just to be sure I don't have to hunt one down later on.
[NSW] Fate/Samurai Remnant – 34,728 / NEW
[NSW] Infinity Strash: Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai – 24,367 / NEW
[PS5] Fate/Samurai Remnant – 21,569 / NEW
[PS5] Ys X: Nordics – 18,563 / NEW
[NSW] Pikmin 4 – 18,307 / 882,536
[NSW] EA Sports FC 24 – 16,485 / NEW
[PS5] EA Sports FC 24 – 15,863 / NEW
[NSW] Ys X: Nordics – 15,846 / NEW
[PS4] Fate/Samurai Remnant – 12,203 / NEW
[PS4] EA Sports FC 24 – 11,750 / NEW
@ryanhoulihan Isn't the Pro model like super big? If you put the phone in one of those controller thingies, and turn the thing into a proper handheld gaming device, I don't see the issue. Not that different from playing it on a a Steam Deck at that point. (except it will likely run better on iPhone)
@Toastie Wait until 2025. When website detect that you use adblocker, they will use 0-days to hack your PC, remove any ad-blocking extensions and hack into your payment services to force you to subscribe and pay them. And somehow that will all be legal.
you know that saying about how a compiler made by N teams will contain N+1 passes?
like every big program contains a replica of the organizational structure that created it?
It's fun sometimes to see big programs made by one person, because they're a sort of inverse mold of their brain structure.
@foone I think large part of this is just that understanding code is often really hard, even and often especially, if it's well optimised and efficient. Good documentation can help greatly here, but it's often missing and few projects really maintain a detailed one.
Sometimes we should step back and appreciate just how well Mastodon actually works. Watching this whole #Meta#Threads thing play out, makes it really clear how vital algorithm free #hashtag search is for truly democratized engagement.
@mastodonmigration I think my bigger issue with Mastodon is how bad it appears in comparison with CalcKey. It has quotes, it looks by default far better. If it does not have the same problem with remote post discovery, then it would be virtually perfect. Meanwhile, Mastodon seems unwilling to add features, improve its UI. Of course it appears better than Twitter, which is actively being burned down to the ground by its insane owner.
@puniko The weirdest thing is when people use Discord like a repository.
Ah yes, the famously easy to search site Discord, the perfect place to archive important things.
@Migueldeicaza Feels more like Red Hat is bemoaning that this is happening/might happen, but it also kinda comical since it is clear they are powerless to stop it. No idea why that paragraph exists, makes them look pretty dumb. You could call it honesty, I guess?
So, I have a simple question: why is the "Fediverse" so dumb about interactions between instances? Like, I just checked out Lemmy. So I make an account at one instance, and great, it works. That is, until I want to check out other communities at other servers.
When visiting non-local communities, I do not see all the posts there are. Some are missing, and sometimes it pulls years old posts as "active". Lots of posts missing inside threads too. Completely unusable. #fediverse#lemmy
I am also not sure this will ever be really fixed, mastodon has to this day similar problems where posts from other instances, that you see via boosts, never show you how many replies, boosts and favourites there really are. I really don't understand why such basic information cannot just be pulled from the other instance.
Is it to save bandwidth? Then what's the point if it comes at the cost of making the networks essentially separate "worlds".
@maegul Well, I cannot speculate about the technical ins and outs, and I am not really interested in exploring it. Given the last 50+ years on work on distributed networking, it strikes me as comical, to put it nicely, that it does not seem to handle this easy task.
If the issue is cost, then I am more than open than paying a monthly share, but it just strikes as inherently unviable at the moment. Wanting to see all posts there isn't a super high ask, it's the bare minimum
I disagree with the current CEO of Mastodon about his stance on mid-sized instances. We don't want to be run in isolation, we are part of the Fediverse. "Normal users just want the default", he can repeat that as many times as he wants, it doesn't make it true because of that.
Diversity is the DNA of the Fediverse and Mastodon is just one part of the whole. Thousands of people spend their time and money to make it successful. Anyone who dismisses that and single-handedly tries to market the Fediverse as a Mastodon brand and use "crowding out" techniques to prevent users from even being encouraged to choose an instance from a diversity will ultimately fail.
I am super disappointed with the direction Mastodon Corporation is taking. If there is not enough headwind here soon, then sooner or later it will lead to a schism.
@aral@louis I think it's also useful to think about it from another perspective: the way Mastodon currently works, you have a pretty poor experience when you see posts mainly from other remote instances. It won't load all the posts, you often see no replies (even though they exist) and it barely feels like a working social network. All those issues go away if everyone is in one central instance. Mastodon had years to fix this, and did not.