Flatout2 - LAN
Anyone know how to get Flatout 2 Lan gaming to work?
It used to work earlier (1;5years ago), but now I don't find any of my Windows-friends when searching for LAN games.
(Disabled firewall, tried different wine versions. Tried Steam version, tried Gog version. Game works fine, but can't find anyone else on LAN and nobody finds my if I try to host).
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Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42525295
[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.
Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.
Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba...PeerTube.world
Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.
Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba...PeerTube.world
Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/42525295
[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.
Video - Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
[from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba acts as a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah has been dismissed as complete nonsense by Cubans, just one in a “long list of lies” says the Cuban government.There are, in fact, hundreds of Palestinians in Cuba, but they’re here training to be doctors, alongside medical students from over 100 countries at the Latin American School of Medicine.
We asked them what they thought of Trump’s claims.
Is Cuba a safe haven for Hamas and Hezbollah?
Donald Trump made several allegations against Cuba as he enacted an executive order blocking oil shipments to the island on Thursday, but one took Cubans completely by surprise. His claim that Cuba...PeerTube.world
PieFed vs Lemmy. What say you?
So, it seems like PieFed is becoming a real alternative to lemmy.
What are the differences between these two? From a tech perspective, and also morality/ethics, if you want. Any differences in vision for these services?
Say whatever is on your mind. I want to know.
On which one should we put our weight?
Edit: I will leave this post here, which is a post by one of the devs of Lemmy that enumerates some of the things Lemmy 1.0 has. Lemmy 1.0 seems to be already in alpha stage and is already testable. The feature selection does look fantastic. Here is the post I am referring to: lemmy.ml/post/40744781
Lemmy Release v0.19.15 and Testing for 1.0
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top. Thanks to @[url=https://ukfli.uk/u/flamingos]flamingos-cant[/url] for contributing to resolve this.Changes
We messed up the previous release and did not include the full list of changes. In fact there were a handful of other bug fixes, and notably a maximum page limit of 10 to prevent a DDoS attack. Some users were also hitting this limit, so with this version the limit is increased to 100. We apologize for these mistakes.Here is the full changelog since 0.19.13:
- Don't allow accessing page numbers greater than 10 by @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] #6017
- Update deps based on cargo audit by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6258
- Increase page limit to 100 by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6252
- Ban federation for deleted users by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6207
- Federate mod actions on deleted users by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6199
- Allow admins to view deleted user profiles by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6194
- Adding creator and community indexes for post_aggregates. by @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] in #6025
- Ignore apub person banners which cannot be parsed by @[url=https://soc.ialis.me/users/nutomic]Felix[/url] in #6015u
Now for the good news, the development version of Lemmy 1.0 is available for testing on voyager.lemmy.ml with lots of new features. Registration is open, you're welcome to create an account. Feel free to post spam and try everything out. Here is only a short overview:
- Multi-communities: Combine different communities together into a custom feed.
- Post scheduling: Specify when your post should be published.
- Keyword filter: Automatically hide posts about certain topics.
- Private communities: Only followers can view the content, and need to be approved manually by mods. Other community visibilities are also available (unlisted, local only).
- New notification system: Including notifications for mod actions, and subscribing to communities and posts to be notified about new comments.
- OAuth: Login to Lemmy with existing account from another website. Use this link to signup with your Github account (the UI still needs to be improved).
- Post Tags: Categorize posts within a community (UI part not implemented yet).
- User vote totals: You can see the total number of upvotes and downvotes given to each user.
- User notes: You can keep notes on other users.
- Combined Feeds: View your saved, liked posts and comments together in a single list.
- Comment Locking: Mods can now lock comments recursively.
- GDPR style data exporting: You can now export your full posting history as a JSON file.
- Plugins: Can be written in JS, Python, Rust, and any other language that targets Webassembly. The test server has a plugin for automatic language tagging of posts.
- Cursor pagination: Don't lose your place in the feed when switching pages.
- API v3 compat: Lemmy 1.0 can be used by existing apps with no changes (but most new features are only available via the new API v4).
- More: Countless smaller features, bug fixes and improvements, too much to list here.
All the above mentioned features are already implemented and fully working, but may need some polishing. If you encounter any problems, please open an issue (backend, frontend). voyager.lemmy.ml is automatically updated to the latest development version every night, so that changes can immediately be tested.
Keep in mind that Lemmy 1.0 is still in alpha state. There may be breaking changes and critical bugs, so do not attempt to upgrade your own instances yet. We intend to publish the first beta version in January, along with API docs and upgrade instructions for test servers.
We hope that you are as excited about these new features as we are. With all this said, happy testing and Merry Christmas!
Upgrade instructions
There are no breaking changes with this release.Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.
If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.
Thanks to everyone
We’d like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, donating and reporting bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.Support development
We (@[url=https://mastodon.social/users/dessalines]Dessalines[/url] and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.
- Liberapay (preferred option)
- Open Collective
- Patreon
- Cryptocurrency
LemmyNet/lemmy
🐀 A link aggregator and forum for the fediverse. Contribute to LemmyNet/lemmy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I have no idea. I'm a vanilla, semi-norm who came from Reddit, mainly because they banned me after 15 years of active and mostly chill engagement.
I'm basically just a slightly opinionated guy who's interested in what other people have to say on a variety of subjects.
I'm only dimly aware of PieFeed. I like lemmy as it feels like early Reddit and I access it through the boost app on Android, which was the peak Reddit experience before they locked down the APIs.
I've no interest in spreading myself over multiple platforms - I just want access to other humans via the path of least resistance.
With this in mind, is PieFace better? And if so, in what way?
Hello,
Hope you are doing well. Any time-frame (even rough) in mind for Lemmy 1.0 release?
Community tags by dessalines · Pull Request #3795 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui
Description Adds the ability for community mods / admins to create community tags. Fixes Support creating community tags #3566 Adds the ability to add community tags for a post. Fixes Support addi...GitHub
Something to help lead people to the Fediverse
I modified a image I saw going around last year on Global Switch Day
old.reddit.com/r/solarpunk/com…
Perhaps we could use it to make people aware of Reddit alternatives etc.
If you can imporve upon the image please do so, and feel free to use it.
I just threw it together in KolourPaint in a few min.
#1 Post in r/BuyCanadian mentioning PieFed.ca -- 76,000 Views and counting.
reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/comme…
Say no to Palantir in the NHS
Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight backNo to Palantir
Not sure where all of this come from
Some context for people reading this and out of the loop
Piefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/10059…
Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
The onboarding process helps with that.
Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have
- cross-posts comments consolidation: example: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777… . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
- multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
- built-in keyword filters
For a detailed list: join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
On the other hand, the Fedecan guides are quite helpful: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-starte…
But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: lemmy.world/post/35166124
That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.
(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@lemmy.zip )
There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:
There has also been a post about the Piefed filters I mentioned above: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326
It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:
This position is a bit surprising, as quite a few Lemmy instances have a Piefed instance as well
- lemmy.dbzer0.com and anarchist.nexus
- lemmy.blahaj.zone and piefed.blahaj.zone
- lemmy.ca and piefed.ca
- lemmy.world and piefed.world
- lemmy.zip and piefed.zip
If Piefed was as bad as the posts against it say, then probably most of the instances would have shut those instances down already.
Both software coexist and are federated, so this kind of targeted posts against one of them seems counterproductive.
That's it for me, good Sunday everyone.
Choice Overload | Laws of UX
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.Laws of UX
Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)
Edit about the 4chan image blocking, I asked Rimu directly:I wrote a long message about how that checkbox only notifies about federated posts.So the difference is for local posts it blocks the creation of the post entirely, but for federated posts it just notifies the admin.
chat.piefed.social/#narrow/cha…--
Original message:codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/c…
A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That's not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
piefed.social/c/piefed_css/p/1…
That CSS line can also be used by any user wanting to hide the score at the user level.
Public view of PieFed | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in PieFed without logging in.Zulip
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There's one point you haven't mentioned that, to me, is the most important one and is honestly, I think, the core issue most people are talking around: Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.
If some libs want to go off and make their own little safe-space reddit clone because seeing a post sympathetic to China makes them angry, sure, go ahead I guess. But I'm a Socialist, and all serious Socialists - or Liberals who believe in the merits of free discussion and debate, of which there are vanishingly few these days - are going to be opposed to that sort of thing.
I moved to Lemmy because /r/CTH was banned and /r/GenZedong getting quarantined was the final straw. It is clear to me that the goal of the administration of the major PieFed instances is to recreate the same Anticommunist culture of Reddit within the fediverse.
If the developers of PieFed want me to like their app (or at least be neutral to it), literally all they have to do is refederate with Lemmygrad and enforce moderation policies that do not infringe on legal left-wing speech. If they choose not to, it's they who are putting their politics ahead of their development goals, much in the same way (if this isn't too melodramatic) Imperialist states suddenly stop caring about free markets and the international rules-based order when it comes to the Cuban embargo, Iranian and Russian influence, or Chinese loans.
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“Piefed defederates actual Socialist instances (Hexbear, Lemmygrad, Lemmy.ml) by default in a blatant bid to suppress left-wing speech.”
It has less to do with your politics and more to do with pretty much everyone collectively deciding they don’t want to deal with your toxic instance culture. You guys create such a massive moderation overhead in instances where you engage that it isn’t worth having you around.
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Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn’t ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
This! But it does draw into question Piefed's decision to an instance chooser into the registration page.
I going to stop engaging with this stuff now. I'm just so sick of this inane inter-software fighting. Piefed does some nice things, Lemmy does some nice things, both have questionable aspects. That's just software, baby!
Instead you should do something fun, like listen to this dope album out of Czechia.
Choice Overload | Laws of UX
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.Laws of UX
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I feel the same. I'm going to be a bit self-centered and quote myself from the piefed matrix chat:
I like lemmy. I still use, run communities on, and donate to lemmy instances.Different threadiverse implementations just means different features available to people looking for them, and a bigger, more diverse threadiverse is a better one.
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It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:...
How is a post that has "Piefed is cool" in the title a "campaign against Piefed"?
The other two posts are by one person.
Piefed is cool! Lemmy is too! What's not cool? Infighting, it drives away new users. Unfortunately this seems a common sentiment...
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I've definitely noticed some anti-piefed sentiment in the past week or so. But before that it seemed mostly vocal Piefed users against Lemmy.
It's all silly.
Lastly, even though I have blocked hexbear and lemmygrad, I find it lame that'd they'd ban it by default :P
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With many of those comments being the recent code-level takedown of PieFed. I mean, I'm not saying that this user is a nutomic sock puppet account, but it would be hard to make it more obvious.
Irelephant's OP there is a solid point, but the comments down below are horribly misleading disinformation.
To name just one thing wrong, nowhere is lemmy.ml ever hard-coded in as a defederated instance (hexbear and Lemmygrad I believe are, but not Lemmy.ml). I've seen this piece of disinformation floated several times now in multiple posts - but it is simply not true.
The PieFed devs welcome honest questions and feedback, but if someone is going to spread criticism about the code all over posts in several communities, it could help if they actually read it first to confirm what they are saying?
We're here to answer any questions you have about PieFed's code
I have received word that there are people combing through the PieFed code looking for anything that might be harmful. This is excellent and can only make PieFed better and less harmful.We appreciate their interest in PieFed and look forward to answering any questions and showing people around the code. Please join us at chat.piefed.social or matrix.to/#/#piefed-developers…
There's no need to listen to rumors and amateur speculation when we're right here and happy to help. Come on in, the water's fine!
Public view of PieFed | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in PieFed without logging in.Zulip
Piefed: defederates from instances full of really obnoxious trolls
Obnoxious trolls: but, but, but, then how will we troll them? :(
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Piefed admin settings that allow to enable or disable content filters (they are disabled by default, see body for details)
Edit about the 4chan image blocking, I asked Rimu directly:
I wrote a long message about how that checkbox only notifies about federated posts.So the difference is for local posts it blocks the creation of the post entirely, but for federated posts it just notifies the admin.
chat.piefed.social/#narrow/cha…
--
Original message:
codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/c…
A few people in the other thread assumed that it was required to fork the code to disable those filters. That's not the case, the filters can be configured, and are off by default.
To hide the reputation system, here's a line of CSS that admins can add in the admin area to hide it for every user
piefed.social/c/piefed_css/p/1…
That CSS line can also be used by any user wanting to hide the score at the user level.
Public view of PieFed | Zulip team chat
Browse the publicly accessible channels in PieFed without logging in.Zulip
piefed.zip/c/fedimemes/p/10125…
Not sure where all of this come from
Some context for people reading this and out of the loopPiefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/10059…
Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
The onboarding process helps with that.
Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have
- cross-posts comments consolidation: example: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777… . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
- multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
- built-in keyword filters
For a detailed list: join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
On the other hand, the Fedecan guides are quite helpful: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-starte…
But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: lemmy.world/post/35166124
That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.
(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@[url=https://lemmy.zip/]Lemmy.zip[/url] )
There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:
There has also been a post about the Piefed filters I mentioned above: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326
It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:
This position is a bit surprising, as quite a few Lemmy instances have a Piefed instance as well
- lemmy.dbzer0.com and anarchist.nexus
- lemmy.blahaj.zone and piefed.blahaj.zone
- lemmy.ca and piefed.ca
- lemmy.world and piefed.world
- lemmy.zip and piefed.zip
If Piefed was as bad as the posts against it say, then probably most of the instances would have shut those instances down already.
Both software coexist and are federated, so this kind of targeted posts against one of them seems counterproductive.
That's it for me, good Sunday everyone.
Choice Overload | Laws of UX
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.Laws of UX
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piefed.zip/c/fedimemes/p/10125…
Not sure where all of this come from
Some context for people reading this and out of the loopPiefed has some filters that are disabled by default and configurable by admins: piefed.zip/c/fediverse/p/10059…
Piefed does more hand holding during the on-boarding process: when you first login, you get a list of a few topics you would like to follow, so that your Subscribed feed already has a few communities, instead of directly arriving to the All feed.
A regular issue from newcomers is that all there is on the Threadiverse is US news: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
The onboarding process helps with that.
Piefed also has a few features that Lemmy does not currently have
- cross-posts comments consolidation: example: piefed.zip/c/privacy/p/1011777… . Community fragmentation is a regular criticism of the Threadiverse, and this solves it.
- multi-communities, so that smaller communities are not drown in the most active ones in the Subscribed feed, allowing once again to avoid the "all there is is US news"
- built-in keyword filters
For a detailed list: join.piefed.social/features/
Lemmy 1.0 is planned to add some of those features, but still doesn't have a defined release date yet: lemmy.ml/comment/23570258
Due to all of this, Piefed is currently considered a better platform for new joiners than Lemmy. This can change once Lemmy 1.0 is released, but that's how it is right now.
Why not point to both? Now that most of the tech crowd left Reddit after the 2023 API shutdown, the average Redditor isn't ready to go through a lot of hoops to get to a new platform. See also lawsofux.com/choice-overload/
A recent comment showed the disconnection between a Threadiverse enthusiast and a potential new joiner: old.reddit.com/r/BuyCanadian/c…
On the other hand, the Fedecan guides are quite helpful: fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-starte…
But even beyond that, as we all know, people don't have to understand federation to use the platform: lemmy.world/post/35166124
That's why a few people have been pointing only to Piefed recently.
(Why should we even try to get people from Reddit to here? More people allows niche communities to become active rather than relying on one single poster, if any. That's an issue we usually see on !fedigrow@[url=https://lemmy.zip/]Lemmy.zip[/url] )
There have been a few posts recently on Reddit promoting Piefed:
There has also been a post about the Piefed filters I mentioned above: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62580326
It seems like since then a few Lemmy users have been on a campaign against Piefed:
This position is a bit surprising, as quite a few Lemmy instances have a Piefed instance as well
- lemmy.dbzer0.com and anarchist.nexus
- lemmy.blahaj.zone and piefed.blahaj.zone
- lemmy.ca and piefed.ca
- lemmy.world and piefed.world
- lemmy.zip and piefed.zip
If Piefed was as bad as the posts against it say, then probably most of the instances would have shut those instances down already.
Both software coexist and are federated, so this kind of targeted posts against one of them seems counterproductive.
That's it for me, good Sunday everyone.
Choice Overload | Laws of UX
The tendency for people to get overwhelmed when they are presented with a large number of options, often used interchangeably with the term paradox of choice.Laws of UX
Israel bans MSF from Gaza after charity refuses to hand over staff list
The organisation said it was unable to secure basic assurances regarding the use and protection of that information. "Despite repeated efforts, it became evident that we were unable to build engagement with Israeli authorities on the concrete assurances required," MSF said.
The charity added that it sought guarantees that staff details would be used only for administrative purposes and would not place employees at risk.
MSF said those assurances were not provided and that it therefore "concluded that we will not share staff information in the current circumstances".
Israel bans MSF from Gaza after charity refuses to hand over staff list
Israel has banned the international medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) from operating in Gaza and the occupied West Bank after the organisation refused to hand over a list of its Palestinian and international staff.MEE staff (Middle East Eye)
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TechnoCat
in reply to oyzmo • • •TechnoCat
in reply to TechnoCat • • •Oh also, one time I was in a 4 player demolition derby and we all chose the flatmobile. It was a map where it went to a ramp in the middle and everyone started out pointing right at it. We all just raced to the middle and simultaneously crashed and also crashed the game. I think that was the only time I witnessed the game crashing.
Sorry, just so many good memories of this game!
oyzmo
in reply to TechnoCat • • •Flatout2 is the best cargame ever. Wreckfest could be great too, but the devs absolutely wont't add a nitro option. That nitro is what makes Flatout great; no matter how far behind you lag, there is always a chance.
Btw. Anyone know if there exists a nitro mod for Wreckfest?
anon5621
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