This makes me feel better about reporting Mordred to the Poast admins for refusing to mark media as sensitive. It’s the only report on Fedi I’ve ever made
Poast does, and I tried to address it with the guy reasonably at first since we had been mutual followers for some time. But he rudely dismissed me, so I felt it was reasonable to report him
@udon I think most don't even know this instance exists. They just see something they don't like in the federated timeline, and click the report button without any thought at all. At least, that's my theory.
@ryo But then unless you commented on their instances, they won't appear on their TL. Anyway, I was going to remind you not to seek out wars on other instances. Ignore those kids and they will get bored.
@udon They might still appear on the federated timeline even if nobody ever interacts with them. Unlike other Fedi softs, Masto instances pre-federate with all instances by default, which is like asking for trouble to be honest.
@ryo Oh. I see. I thought Mastodon instances just federates with whatever servers the local users have followed, and that is what it appears to be in my experience. The pre-federation sounds very cozy too.
@udon I'd say it's a double edged sword. On one hand it's nice to have the entire network in your reach from day 1, but on the other hand exactly because the entire network is in your reach from day 1, you get cancel cultists to take their pitchforks and torches all day long desperately trying to neuter their own Fedi experience to match their dogma as much as possible.
For example, when you have a fresh install of Pleroma, you federate with nobody, so you have to go out and remote follow people on other instances in order to federate, or get found by others.
@udon I'd say it's a double edged sword. On one hand it's nice to have the entire network in your reach from day 1, but on the other hand exactly because the entire network is in your reach from day 1, you get cancel cultists to take their pitchforks and torches all day long desperately trying to neuter their own Fedi experience to match their dogma as much as possible.
On the other hand, when you have a fresh install of Pleroma, you federate with nobody, so you have to go out and remote follow people on other instances in order to federate, or get found by others.
@charliebrownau@udon The report button is well known of destroying entire communities. Just look at gaming, back when we all had dedicated servers, you'd report, the admin would check, and ban an idiot if it's actually a troublemaker, or dismiss if it's a non-issue. Nowadays it's all on centralized servers, and anyone who reports you for even the smallest "offenses" has the ability to deprive you from the game you paid for.
Now that decentralization is on the rise again, they took their whole centralized mindset with them, and just ASSume it all works the exact same way, and then get shocked when their reports aren't being taken seriously.
* Prevent anyone above 200 ping joining * PC only (no console cross play) * No Joystick/contoller * Above 21 years old * Male only * No Gays, Lesbians, Trannies * No one that cant handle swearing
@charliebrownau@udon In all fairness, the whole free software movement was established by lefties, but that was back when they were still rebels against the system and actually had a brain, while the right was the system. Nowadays the left-right axis (it's a scam, but I mean as commonly defined) has flipped, now the right are the rebels against the system and actually have a brain, while the left is the system (and they still think they're the rebels, which is the funny part).
@charliebrownau@charliebrownau@ryo@udon Idk much about R6 games, but both Minecraft and Gmod let you self-host servers. Imagine not being able to join your buddy's server because you said nigger once on some other server.
@charliebrownau@charliebrownau@ryo@udon Even funnier is that some cheat client devs figured out a way to send doctored reports that make it look like you said something you didn't, and people got banned for it too.
@charliebrownau@udon@charliebrownau@ryo Yes, this is often referred to as cracked minecraft. Launchers like PolyMC (if I'm not mistaken) will let you launch it without an account, but you can't join any non-cracked servers.
@udon@lolicon@charliebrownau@ryo A few months ago I found a modified version of PolyMC in the AUR that lets you play without any account. It seems the package is now gone from the AUR. I don't know why, maybe because it's regarded as piracy. As far as I know, the original PolyMC needs at least one Microsoft account to function.
@ryo @lolicon@charliebrownau@udon Still, the mob generators are ugly. Imagine you stay in a middle of a great flat desert. Not a sight of anything, even no clouds. You casually rotate 360° several times and suddenly there is a house-sized dragon right in front of you. A miracle, bloody hell!
@charliebrownau@niko@charliebrownau@ryo@udon The description reads "Fork of PolyMC that adds Ely.by support and allows you to use offline mode without an account." I looked into Ely.by and it's essentially alternative auth & skin services outside of Mojang/Microsoft.
Also, supposedly PolyMC is semi dead and the new project is now Prism Launcher. Apparently PolyMC's lead dev made some remarks that don't conform with far-left ideologies so they forked it. Now there's PollyMC with 2 L's, adding offline support. The actual packages are `aur/pollymc` and `aur/pollymc-bin`.
@lolicon@charliebrownau@ryo@udon No, the one I saw has the word "cracked" in the package name (or description). But maybe that one works too. I haven't tried it though.
@udon@nk@charliebrownau@lolicon Of course a game made by a mega corpo is going to look better than one made in some random anon's bedroom, but if it means better performance, gameplay experience, freedom, and everything else in return, it's a price worth paying.
Smaller studio with gameplay, functionality with Linux/OpenGL vs Sandstorm with its UE4 engine and "publisher" turned it into an action fast paced battlefield experence
@charliebrownau@charliebrownau@ryo@nk@udon Eh, Sandstorm is a really well made game including the gameplay, and very underrated compared to actual big titles. But such is the nature of game development