No, I don’t want to? Weird take.

It comes from Fortune, they can’t conceive of something that’s not a business.

The linked page specifically tracks Lemmy, although it’s not clear to me whether it’s tracking posts by users from Lemmy instances or posts to Lemmy instances, which is a medium-sized distinction (the latter would include kbin, Mastodon and other Fediverse users who are posting to Lemmy from their home instance, while the former would obviously include only Lemmy users).

Bit of a downer, but it is an Android news site. kbin currently doesn’t really merit much of a mention in that context. The PWA is nice, but by its nature barely related to Android, since it also runs on Windows, MacOS and everything else under the sun.

Thanks, this is extremely thorough and easy to understand. Very well put. I can see how for anyone with sufficient distrust of Meta and its users, it makes sense to defederate anybody who might serve as a relay between them.

In the meantime, I hope kbin can catch up before Threads starts federating, so I can just interact with people from here. Currently, there’s people who I can’t see/can’t see me from kbin, not due to defederation but simple bugs in kbin’s current ActivityPub implementation. If/when mastodon.social gets defederated, there’s people I won’t have any mechanism to speak to without registering a third account somewhere in the fediverse.

This explains why it’s a good idea to defederate from Meta/Threads, but why defederate from other non-signatory instances?

@MilkToastGhost As long as we’re YSKing, just want to let you know that the word “spaz”/“spastic” has a complicated history. While its meaning has drifted heavily in the US, in the UK especially it remains closely associated with the disability cerebral palsy, and is considered highly offensive to many. The relative innocuousness of the US version has led to it being used in pop culture (e.g. songs by Beyonce and Lizzo, and also Mario Party 8 for Wii), which in turn has resulted in recalls and edits when they were released in the UK to some offense.

I’m not the word police, you can say whatever you want, but it’s handy to know when you’re speaking to a global audience how your words might be interpreted.

On reddit you could see karma breakdown by subreddit which was useful to see where people were most active.

I’d argue that doesn’t really tell you where somebody is active. Most of my karma on Reddit was because I made literally one popular comment in a default subreddit. I could make a thousand comments elsewhere that would never see that kind of traction. You might get the impression that I was really into that subreddit even though I just saw it on /r/all and made a drive-by comment that struck a nerve.

I don’t know that this is really a problem as such. Maybe people shouldn’t care if other users get the wrong impression about which communities they’re interested in, but ultimately where you make your reputation is probably more a function of where you’re speaking to the largest audience. Unless you’re avoiding larger communities completely, basically everybody will get most of their reputation from posts to the largest, most-visible communities rather than the smaller places where they may be spending as much or more time.

• SNES

  • the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, just good platformers; first one hasn’t aged as well as people think, if you don’t enjoy it skip ahead to 2 and come back later if you feel like it
  • The Lost Vikings 1 and 2, fantastic character-switching co-operative (but playable solo) level-based puzzle-platformer; don’t play the sequel on newer platforms like PlayStation, they tried to modernize the graphics and only succeeded in making them hideous, stick with SNES
  • Star Fox 2, as long as you enjoy dated 3D and poor framerates, this is the most ambitious 3D game on any 16-bit console, with a very replayable campaign full of hidden unlockables that differs on each play
  • Super Mario All-Stars & Super Mario World, just an enhanced compilation of 4-5 seminal 2D platformers; while you could use save states on the NES versions, the SNES versions all support native saves, so easier to pick up and play
  • Tetris Attack, nothing to do with Tetris, just a match-three puzzler with deep, engrossing mechanics that can keep you interested long-term; also Panel de Pon with a translation hack if you want more
  • Top Gear, fantastic competitive racer with the line-scroll road effect you know from classic arcade games like OutRun and a killer soundtrack; pick the white car
  • Yoshi’s Island, another classic platformer

• Mega Drive/Genesis

  • Gauntlet IV, better than the arcade original, this is M2 (now known for developing emulators for many classic systems) flexing with some RPG mechanics added to the traditional Gauntlet gameplay
  • The Lost Vikings, SNES version is better but there’s a few brand new levels in this one if you want more
  • Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, basically the first Sonic that noticed it’s a home game, so it has saving and improved replayability with multiple characters, paths and unlockables

• Game Boy

  • Donkey Kong, this is not a port of arcade Donkey Kong, it’s a full-blown puzzle platformer you can play one level at a time
  • Kirby’s Dream Land 2, easy-to-finish platformer but with tons of content if you’re playing “properly”, using the sort of rock-paper-scissors logic to use the right powers to enter the secret areas
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, just a proper “mid-period” (SNES-esque) Mario platformer which you can play over as long as you like

• Game Boy Color

  • Balloon Fight GB, predates Flappy Bird by literal decades but like if that was a proper game with a campaign
  • The Mummy, based on the Brendan Fraser movie and an awesome Konami puzzle-platformer with short individual levels and password save (use save states on emulator), super underrated
  • Pokémon Puzzle Challenge, Tetris Attack but with Pokémon if you prefer that theming
  • Wendy: Every Witch Way, based on some kind of comic book I think, developed by WayForward who developed the Shantae games and then branched off into Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight), Wendy is a gravity-flipping platformer where you’re in control of which direction is up or down

• Game Boy Advance

  • Advance Wars 1 & 2, adorable turn-based strategy war game with a campaign based around small, self-contained levels, except for a few huge ones
  • Drill Dozer, developed by Game Freak (Pokémon), is a sort of level-based Metroidvania platformer with lots of backtracking to older levels as you unlock new abilities
  • F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, the only true sequel to SNES F-Zero, don’t at me
  • Game Boy Advance Video: Shrek, endlessly replayable
  • Metroid: Fusion and Zero Mission, they’re Metroid games
  • Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3 e-Reader version, I think you can get this officially on Switch somehow, but you’ve been to the Internet before; this officially-released modified version of the original game includes a bunch of brand new levels previously distributed only on scannable cards, I’m not telling the whole story but they remix elements from the first four mainline Mario games into basically a whole original game. This is New Super Mario Bros. this is Super Mario Bros. 5, still don’t at me

Of course it’s subjective. The terminology of the left-right political divide originally referred to 18th-century France. In the 21st century, we’re usually not defining the political center of a nation by how it compares to the French Parliament of 250 years ago. The center moves over time and space, and the left and right are relative to that center.

I do think this comment thread is confusing people, though, as noted in an above edit. For clarity, nobody is saying neoliberalism is a center-left movement.

All left-right political terminology is inherently subjective, so you can argue neoliberalism is promoted by center-left parties as long as you’re defining the center as being to the right of that. Since this post seems to be about the United States, that center is already pretty far to the right as measured from, say, Denmark (picked a name out of a hat). I think the bigger argument here is about US-defaultism rather than whether or not it’s OK for Americans to describe things in terms that relate to their political climate.

EDIT: I think the comment I’m replying to is confusing people. Replying solely to the words “center-left” makes it seem like the OP described neoliberalism as center-left, which people are objecting to. However, the OP only used the phrase center-left once, to say that American center-right and center-left parties have enacted neoliberal policy. As a statement of fact, the Democrats have enacted neoliberal policy. By American standards, the Democrats are regarded as center-left. This does not mean the OP was saying “neoliberalism is a center-left ideology.” There is an argument to be made here that the Democrats are not a center-left party, but I think the issue is getting confused here because people are reacting as if the thing being described as “center-left” is neoliberalism, when it’s actually the Democratic Party.

For me, it felt really easy to leave because I had zero social connections on Reddit. I’m not sure if I’m the weird one, but I never learned any individual users’ names or felt ways about stuff, except in the rare case that they became a meme, like shittymorph. I was there for like 12 years and nothing tied me to it. Moving to the threadiverse was as easy as changing a bookmark.

Personally, I feel like having the block button constantly appearing next to every magazine name might be overkill. I’d be happy to have an interface like …

• Block

  • Block User
  • Block Magazine
  • Block Instance

… under the “more” menu.