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this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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I've seen a lot of LW users behaving like this.
They want a single comm per topic, preferably in LW; and everyone should go to that comm, no dissidence allowed. Always talking about "not splitting efforts", or some FUD like "unless we gather together Lemmy will never succeed".
And, when you tell them a clear "no", they throw a tantrum. Like Serinus did there.
I think that they got out of Reddit, but they didn't get Reddit out of themselves. They still behave like this was a Reddit-like monolithic platform; so when they see decentralisation - like multiple comms for the same topic, in different instances - they treat it as a bug, when it's a feature.
~~Anyway, I'd call that FAPTB (failed attempt of powertripping).~~ EDIT: wow, they removed your mention of the other comm! Talk about pettiness. PTB.
Maybe we should point them out to Discuit and their 181 weekly active users: https://discuit.net/DiscuitMeta/post/NlAdOWAp
Some people indeed don't seem to understand that if Lemmy has 43k monthly active users, it's thanks to the different instances and community. Would ml been a single forum, most of the people wouldn't have even registered. LW could have a decent following, but the regular debatable policy updates would have probably pushed people away.
Sounds like Discuit should add apub integration. At this day and age it honestly baffles me that people like the devs of raddle and discuit go all like "No we don't want to talk to anyone else. You have to join our walled garden!"
There are at least 4 or 5 forums on /r/Redditalternatives which could definitely benefit from ActivityPub, but they don't see the appeal.
One of them even asks for people credit card information to avoid bots
Ye I know, it's fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn't have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.
Lol, at an age where people are preconditioned to assume this means a subscription lock-in and the rest don't even own one, I wonder how many people took them up on that offer.
I also love the naivety of thinking $3 once will stop spammers. As if that wouldn't be a perfectly cheap amount to pay to spam all their users if they had a lot of them. Twitter has $8 a pop and it's innundated with spam
Well put. It's a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms...
Software devs and their "I can build this better from scratch in one weekend" mentality, mate...
Maybe its old age and laziness, but at least 99 times out of 100 I think "someone else built this better from scratch in a weekend, I should check some git repos first".
If I find nothing, start a project, get it functional, and then randomly run across exactly what I'm looking for (or close enough with minor updates I can send upstream).
Reminds me that we could keep an eye on https://clubsall.com/
Okay so while true, this is also highly ironic given the nature of the OP.😜
I'll restate your words as "instead of splitting our efforts, why not contribute towards enhancing the existing options...?" (I know the answer, I'm just saying it's ironic 😛)
That's fair 😄 As stated in the OP, in this case there is no effort to join on the LW community unfortunately 😅
I don't know the game so therefore why you'd want to promote a second community for it, but if you feel that you want to, then go for it! But yeah you definitely seemed to have pissed off the owner of the previous one, so I'm not sure it's worth that - and yet with all the delays in federation of content (not only to Australia and New Zealand but also I've definitely been impacted by it several times in the USA) I do see that there is some value there.
I almost wonder if it's worth offering to hand the new community over to Serinus if all you want is to help move some communities off of Lemmy.World. On the other hand, there are so many problems with that like how cross-instance mod reports don't federate yet, and there seems to be some special reason (the specific computer coding) to keep that particular one on Lemmy.World.
In that case then, is there any reason why Serinus should be particularly happy about you having created the other community, without consulting them first? All the more reason to not go into their community then and post advertisements to move over to the new one? Even if you meant well, Serinus may not see the same value in that which you do, so I think that was a bit of a mistake on your part. Even as Serinus' reactions here and there are on them (which I told them as well, directly).
You might rather enjoy working together to achieve both of your aims rather than being at odds with one another... ofc you do you, and whatever you feel you must, I just hoped that might spark something in you, even if I am too far removed to fully see all of the situation to make an accurate judgement call.:-)
To be completely fair, I might not stick with the game much longer. The company which manages it recently enshittified it, so the player experience is getting worse and worse.
We'll see!
Yikes, that happens so very often: they lure people in then abuse them for cash, just like Google and Microsoft and Apple and Meta and Reddit and X etc. It would be cool if people developed better open source alternatives.:-) But especially it gets so tricky with anything multiplayer bc people want so very badly to cheat:-(.
They just made the game very difficult for new players, basically killing userbase renewal.
Milking benefit before killing the game as a whole.
A tale as old as time, and somehow we all keep falling for it, saying how THIS game will be different. And then it is... until it isn't anymore:-(.
I am sorry you are having to go through that.:-( I feel the same about my game that's currently doing the same as well. Another Eden is the only mobile ga(t)cha that I allowed myself to play, bc of it being a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger, arguably the best JRPG of all time. And it was that, for a time, and to some extent still is, but it is also in process to not be thus anymore, and has been moving steadily in that direction for a long time.
Then again, if I were still a mod of that community then I'd have to remain on Reddit where it stayed, so letting it go freed me to seek out other things such as Lemmy:-). Perhaps you won't have to "quit" yours just yet, even if you can no longer recommend it to newer players starting out. Another Eden has been coasting like that for years.
Sorry to hear too...
Thankfully we have !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works for hidden gems!
There was a plan (never successful, not actualy possible to implement) to put a price on email - a fraction of a cent per message, with proof of payment encoded in the headers to make scam spam uneconomical
That could never work with a reddit-like service, for money spam and for ideals trolling wouldn't care about $50 a year.