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poVoq, 9 hours ago

That isn’t a problem, but a feature, see: opensource.net/why-single-vendor-is-the-new-propr…

poVoq, 8 hours ago

These days selling the software itself is rarely successful nor a particularly good business model. Basically only computer games still work like that, and the commercially really successful ones not any more either.

poVoq, 12 hours ago

Anything that is not a walled garden like Meta & Apple hopefully. Those are sadly killing VR.

A SteamDeck like standalone headset from Valve (as rumoured) would be good.

poVoq, 9 hours ago

That isn’t the problem, the reverse is the problem. Meta generally has the right idea to offer a relatively cheap standalone headset, but the way they try to control everything on it, lock it down and try to establish a monopoly appstore with a huge cut makes it very unattractive for developers.

The few games that exist only on Quest are there because Meta bought the studio or directly paid for the development of the game.

poVoq, 1 day ago

You have a lot of unlearning to do 😊

poVoq, 1 day ago

Funded by a (somewhat controversial) tech billionair, see a recent interview with him here: youtu.be/5UHF84gyVWg

poVoq, 1 day ago

Some of the views he expressed in the past sounded a lot like Elon Musk before he went full bonkers recently. But I guess it could be worse.

poVoq, 21 hours ago

The very fact that the developer’s livelihood now depends on the investor is enough to influence development significantly.

poVoq, 1 day ago

We discussed the movie here before: slrpnk.net/post/2008096

poVoq, 1 day ago

It’s self-hosted on a refurbished older Xeon with 64gb ram. We recently upgraded it, so performance wise we should be good for a while, but I’d rather help other people set up their own Lemmy instances than continue scaling up the hardware to accommodate much more users.

poVoq, 19 hours ago

I think it would be great to have some non-english Solarpunk themed instance, especially a Brazilian one.

In general, I think more localised options, like city or region based instances are the much better idea over large general instances like Lemmy.world.

As for running instances, I think right now the biggest entry barrier is the image storage requirements. The main Lemmy dB is also relatively big, but it can fit on a typical medium sized VPS. S3 compatible image storage is finniky to set up and most providers sadly have hidden cost traps built into them.

Maybe a shared S3 storage option for Lemmy admins based on this project: jortage.com would be cool to have (preferrably in central Europe, near the cheap VPS hosts). It could also include image scanning via the Lemmy-safety project.

Personally I set up our server so that we wouldn’t need something like this, but I would be willing to help setting this up if some group of instances would be interested in running such a shared storage back end.

poVoq, 1 day ago

The problem is structural. Encouraging more left-leaning people to join these institutions will just make them very unhappy and likely to quit later. Furthermore, you can’t really abolish a broken institution from within.

poVoq, 3 days ago

wiki.slrpnk.net/fullyautomatedrpg:start

You can edit that page and the namespace as a mod of this community (however due to an incomplete authentication script you currently need to set a display name and an email address in your Lemmy profile, otherwise the login on the wiki will fail).

Edit: I need to check the size of the files allowed for upload. Looks like they are currently limited to 2mb which is a bit low.

poVoq, 1 day ago

Ok, the wiki now allows up to 50mb uploads per individual file. You need to be in your community’s namespace then then you can open the media manager and select the upload tab.

poVoq, 3 days ago

You need an Ejabberd server and this auth script: f-hub.org/Solarpunk/ejabberd-auth-lemmy