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Yewb, 11 months ago

They want us to eventually just pay monthly forever to own nothing, that is where we are going,.
This will lead to more piracy -- I am sure some community is already working to reverse engineer the servers for D4 without blizzard.

Also fuck bobby kotick for ruining a whole generation of gaming.

freebrick, 11 months ago

Ernest Bois

Sausage, 11 months ago

@ernest doing the business. What a dude.

If you have the means, sling him some funds

Zippythezigzag, 11 months ago

Only real redditors don't use reddit.

jake_eric, 11 months ago

Hmm, yeah, I don't like this at all. I can see some benefits but I really don't want to have to worry about what I'm voting on. If I downvote some lunatic I don't want them being able to harass me about it. And it feels way too social-media-y for me. This could be a dealbreaker for a lot of people if there isn't at least a way to opt out.

princessofcute, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Consolidation is bad because these servers are generally run by regular people not a million dollar company being bankrolled by investors. Think about centralized platforms and how much they struggle when there's an influx of new users, they still struggle even with tech support teams and wads of money. A single person with a home server setup or a basic cloud server is going to have infinitely more troubles and add on the fact that it's likely also a hobby for them so they won't be able to troubleshoot and fix things at the drop of a hat. So what happens when a major bug happens and they can't fix it for a few days? People leave and don't come back because it's broken. Also bigger instances have a higher likelihood of problem users congregating which means smaller instances defederate with them which means that all those users are now cut off from certain spaces (look at lemmygrad) and while some of them might not be bad or agree with the problem users the whole instance gets banned. Another issue with large instances is that if their instance owner decides they're done suddenly you have a lot of people that need to find a new home (this is a big issue with centralized platforms) But if say those thousand users were split between 100 different instances if one instance goes down that's a lot less displaced users that need new homes. I'm sure there are other reasons but those are all I could think of off the top of my head.

Also sorry for the novel I sometimes get a little verbose in my replies haha

ernest, 11 months ago

An admin can ban such an account or clear its content. The admin can "delete" an account, in which case all posts are erased, but replies from other users in the threads remain. They can also "purge" an account, in which case all posts, along with replies, and all actions are completely purged.

I am also considering a change in the Roadmap and replacing one of the points with improving moderation tools and implementing basic anti-spam protection or early warning alerts. I didn't realize it would be so significant at this stage either ;)

eatmoregreenfood, 11 months ago

Point 1 is paramount. 5 is important also from a tech standpoint. The rest are very good points.

QuantumFilament, 11 months ago

1. Greater attention to user anonymity. For example, right now, you can look at any thread/comment and see who upvoted it and who downvoted it. In addition to causing arguments and drama, it also can be used to build a profile of what a user likes or dislikes - which can have significant ramifications for many people. Users need to be able to trust in certain aspects of anonymity and have control over what information they allow to be public. That also includes public access to know who follows a particular user as well.

2. The ability to save threads and comments.

3. The ability to expand/collapse comment trees.

4. Better moderation tools, including the ability to be notified when new threads are created in a magazine you moderate.

5. The titles to threads need to directly link to the linked URL instead of opening the kbin comments page. You shouldn't need to go through twice the effort to get to the linked URL. It also adds twice the load for the kbin servers.

eatmoregreenfood, 11 months ago

We should have the ability to manage what of our data goes out to the internet/advertisers/scrapers/other users. Non negotiable.

eatmoregreenfood, 11 months ago

Advertiser makes a user account that is a bot for harvesting data. Now it isn't between human users anymore. And more than that I don't think I want people I don't know having access to information I don't want them to have access to.

LChitman, 11 months ago

I think you can block them using the button next to subscribe - at least that's what I've assumed it does! You can also filter the main page to show subscribed magazines only.

sheepyowl, 11 months ago

@aroom I don't like this because I know that people in public and especially on the internet, can have absolute psychopathic reactions to simple discussions. I don't need some lunatic looking through my history because I downvoted them for saying something that is clearly insane - I would rather stay relatively anonymous.
And that is without even considering doxxing.

emzzy, 11 months ago

I think this defeats the purpose of (down)voting. Voting's a quick and approachable way of interacting with a post by design. By tying it to the reputation of an account, it introduces a lot of additional complexities to the voting system. Alongside "this is a post that I think should (not) get more reach," we now also have to consider "is this a post that I want to be seen with?", which is a point that can affect some people more than others, including people of marginalized demographics. It adds reason to editorialize and a compulsion justify our votes to the public, which I think -- in combination with other nuances that potentially may surround the voter, the post, and/or the poster at hand -- can make votes a lot less honest. Even if not, potentially opening up a can of worms to the internet, and potentially real life, for clicking a button, makes voting and interacting with posts less desirable, in my opinion. And what's the point of social networking if not interaction?

I do like the idea of adding accountability for the feedback that we provide on posts, just not at the cost of anonymity. I would love to see something like the labeling system from Tildes. I think it makes voting more thoughtful without making it less approachable.

ernest, 11 months ago

I noticed, but it's not me... not yet. The traffic simply dropped to an acceptable level. I'm working on maintaining this state permanently, and I think I'm on the right track. I want to do it really well and make use of the new possibilities we have now. In the meantime, I'm organizing the git/issues and will be on Matrix where we resolve certain technical matters. But I'll be back here soon and will tell you everything :)

Good morning, everyone!

KirbySSM, 11 months ago

I'm hoping we get the feature Mastodon has where you can migrate your stuff to other instances

ernest, 11 months ago

I'm starting to work on this topic. I have made the first temporary changes, they are not perfect yet, but I will improve them over time. Soon, there will be the possibillty of full customization.