Ah. That’s too bad, I think that’s a worthwhile topic. His hardware is in the Netherlands if I remember right though, so everything has to comply with EU and Dutch law. Or, gone it goes, by necessity. That would need to be hosted on a different server.

That’s kinda funny. It’s still a barrier to entry though, as a niche, technical hobby. It’s going to get less crap than, say, a news community, which does not require monetary investment and some genuine interest to engage in.

With all due respect, a 3d printing community is going to draw extremely low levels of bullshit.

Other communities are seeing quite a bit of tomfoolery already. Personally, I do not think attracting all internet denizens equally is a sound strategy for healthy long term growth.

… good point. I have a lemmy.ca alt for this exact reason.

For me it’s more about something with the potential to undermine the deathgrip of facebook, twitter, etc from our societies, in an attempt to partially address the steady increase in utter braindead stupidity and mindless vitriolic hatred stemming from profit-driven algorithmic control of our broader information ecosystem.

That requires the eventual growth of a decentralized sister ecosystem of sorts, able to act as a viable competitor. So, to compete with the giants, that’s basically a fairly significant chunk of everyone. On Earth.

Fortunately you can always just defederate the highest population centers, I imagine that would become very common eventually. Especially if they tried monetization or something, which would probably not be unheard of with larger userbases.

All that said, I do feel you and also personally like smaller communities. But I’ll just move to one once World gets too big.

I mean, yah… When Steam puts damn near every game in existence on sale like 4 times a year like clockwork, they know damn well they’re setting up a habit/tradition in their consumer base that they can use to control the broader industry.

They’re big enough to survive with sheer volume on smaller margins for most of their revenues, and occasionally getting full ticket price from someone impatient or using their parents money.

Any upstart competitors will have a much harder time of it.

Honestly I think I just got myself worked up over Ice Pick, since I like Pathologic. I think was subconsciously doing that thing where the quickest way to get an answer on the internet isn’t to ask a question, but to make an incorrect statement.

edit: Someone else did point out that Ice Pick is still around too.

What frustrates me about that is Pathologic is a really dark, gritty, sometimes miserable experience. It fits the “hard” Russian worldview very well. Additionally, it’s well regarded as an extremely artistic game, really pushing boundaries in what kinds of experiences we put into gaming in general. “Does a game have to be ‘fun’ to be ‘good’?” is Pathologic in a nutshell. You could make an argument for it being high art.

This much respect and admiration should be a cultural victory for Russia. They should’ve given those guys medals and put them up in a fancy studio so they could make the project as good as possible, to bring respect and accomplishment to Russia.

Instead they probably got drafted, shipped to the front, and got a grenade dropped on their heads from a quadcopter…

Pisses me off man.

Anyone else notice how many Russian devs just kinda … disappeared over the past year? I’m kinda hoping the guys working on Pathologic 2 are still like … alive. The game is unfinished.

Russians sometimes do some really good work in game development. It’d be cool if they were free to kinda get back to it.

Well, I was of the other opinion, but you have decisively convinced me, thank you.

Thoughts on the cons of making all upvotes visible to all users? I’ve always felt that would be a net benefit, but now I’m not so sure. Any idea?

Minimal. It frankly just doesn’t actually advance his goals very significantly. Nor is he a particularly clever man that thinks of unusual strategies.

I think his focus is on squeezing his current userbase more than any kind of long term caring about the size of it. Wouldn’t be surprised if he plans to quit his job in the next 5 years and collect a fat severance anyway. He’d rather people not leave, but DDoSing a small chunk of people somewhere else doesn’t really help much.

This is a random attack, so ask yourself who benefits? For one thing, it’s fun. It also pisses some people off. It also irritates a fairly politically active population.

Who wants all those things? Trolls, of course. Why are they, specifically, trolling? Varies individual to individual, but mainly it’s about causing pain to others.

Absolute. If you want to maintain control yourself you need to Self-Host.

Welcome to the internet.

… yea probably. I’d do that if I were spez. It’s a sound move from his position, surprisingly.

If you don’t want to be on a large Lemmy, then I recommend you move to a smaller Lemmy. If you always want to be in a smaller Lemmy, then I recommend you make sure it is one where the admins want to remain small. There are many of these. It will take work to find and join one, however.

But I think it would be more effective than complaining about a service growing big after trying to grow big.

It’s not a meme. It’s a paraphrasing of a basic philosophy that runs contradictory to most others in the modern world. You know it when you see it.

You can give the benefit of the doubt to whomever you like. But this is not some universal open communication platform like some may wish it to be. (we already have one of those, it’s called 4chan) It’s just a social media organization, just like dozens before it. That’s why we have the tools that we do.

Given that at no time in human history has shit ever “just worked” without looking from an extremely narrow viewpoint, I think it’s fairly easy to discern this Instance’s goals: to be a bridge from the extreme right to the rest of the community.

Certainly fits the pattern.