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I still don't get it. If a r/pics mod goes to lemmy.ml and makes c/pics, I can go to lemmy.ca and make c/pics, and you can go to kbin and make m/pics. You're right that probably one of those pics communities is going to end up being the favorite but that doesn't mean the others can't post good relevant content. Also no one needs to "move communities" you can subscribe to every version of pics that that exists. I'm subscribed to multiple different communities of the same topic because each of them are going to have their own slant or take on the topic. Over time the content and comments will be what determines my favorite of them, not which is the biggest.

On the fediverse I think content is king, much more than anywhere else, simply because there can be so many versions of the same topic. The one that rises to the top will be content based, not based on server or who the owner is. I can create 50 communities, but can I post 50 communities worth of good content and foster 50 communities worth of good comments? I mean, maybe. But probably not.

Because that is the goal of any totalitarian regime. You think Putin has the welfare of his country in mind? Or Kim Jong Un? No. Money and Power is the only goal. There was an article recently on North Koreans saying how they're starving and just waiting to die. The people are simply the means to generate wealth and exercise power. Their welfare has nothing to do with it.

I used to think the Republicans were wannabe dictators, but in the last few years they've demonstrated that they are actual fascists and a dictatorship is their endgame. There is no way to deny this anymore. If someone tells you who they are, you should listen to them. Republicans are no longer hiding it.

Listen, this is hard thing for me to type but I think is relevant to the Republican mindset. Hundreds of children are being murdered in their classrooms. Literal murder. Of children. This is not enough to sway Republicans on gun control. If actual murder of 6 year olds doesn't have any effect on them, surely 6 year olds being hungry is not even going to make them blink. This is the reality with these people. They simply do not care about you, or your children, and everything they do is governed only by money and power.

It's definitely an interesting selling point. I've always said you have to take the good with the bad on social media, but having independent instances who can curate things a bit means you don't actually have to take the bad if you don't want. Even though the Beehaw admin themselves said this is essentially a nuke and not how they'd preferred to have handled it (Lemmy doesn't have the tools just yet to do it any other way) it's still interesting and unique in social media.

Beehaw is creating an identity for themselves and sticking to it, rather than being a general instance. Some people will love that, some will hate it. But ultimately it's whats going to make Beehaw a unique place to be for those who want it without taking anything away from those who don't. This is all still early stages for Lemmy and there are growing pains for sure, but this sort of thing, to me at least, shows the possibilities of a Federated network.

I'm sure you're right about this. Probably the framerate bounces all over the place which feels much worse than simply locking it to 30fps and having a consistent experience. I think a PC has the potential to simply brute force it into 60fps, but an Xbox simply cannot. Which is probably fine. The game is said to run at 4k and 1440p depending on which Xbox you have, and for a game like this where exploration is going to play a big role, those visuals will do a lot of silent storytelling.

I would rather walk over a hill and see an incredible alien sunset on some moon, than have more frames, especially if those frames are bouncing around between 60 and 40 and going over that hill stutters and jerks spoiling the immersion.

you begin to feel like you have to also be toxic in self-defense [...] Then you go somewhere that’s not toxic and it’s like a culture shock

This is exactly what I've experienced! I'm not looking to make any excuses for my time on Reddit but seeing the cause just laid out like that makes me feel.. maybe not better, but differently, about why that behavior didn't seem wrong at the time. I'm sure at some point early on I was downvoted and mocked and thus started the cycle of retaliation downvotes until it became normalized.

Then I come here to Beehaw and I can't even downvote you. If I disagree, I have to actually engage with you. And in this instance at least, if I just treat you like garbage the mods are going to notice. That means if I want to engage, then it needs some thought behind it. All of this leans in the direction of starting conversations instead of silencing them.

I do not like disabling the downvote button because of this, but i think it is better to disable it, if we tend to abuse it

In theory voting things up and down for relevancy is a fine idea, a good one even. But human nature is often the reason why we can't have nice things. It's just way too easy to fall into that trap. Simply having an upvote button does allow the best ideas to rise to the top, but it doesn't silence alternative opinions or encourage dog piling on someone with groupthink.

Yes, I completely agree with you. Reddit could become such a nasty place, and I fully admit that I was part of the problem. It didn't feel like a problem because it was so socially accepted, even encouraged, within Reddit's own culture, but I was definitely part of the problem down voting people into oblivion for "being dumb". I never thought twice about it until the last two days. Now it feels dirty. Now I recognize I don't want to be a part of that culture any longer.

I suppose it does make sense to have undetermined because people might not make a selection in that box at all when posting and without the undetermined option set, you'd not see it. It should probably be the default though, like a setting that is always on. That would prevent having to make the selection and potentially even making an undetermined post by accident.

We have both of these already, don't we? When I go to settings I see Interface Language which I assume is the website itself, and then a whole list of languages below it which I assume are post languages. Those assumptions could be wrong as I'm new here, but that's what they seem to indicate to me.

Below that you have Type and Sort Type, and selecting these will make it your default feed view. This one I know works because I've experimented with it a bit myself. If you always want to see popular posts from all of your subscribed communities set it to Subscribed and Hot and it will stay that way by default.

I can't say that I have. I've never used lidarr though so if there is an issue with that I'm not the person to ask.

I find Plex to be pretty bullet proof, and I have family scattered all over the US, and one in Europe, who all use my server and we don't run into many issues. Very occasionally I'll get a message something isn't working and just restarting Plex always seems to fix it. I like self hosting but I'm not any sort of tech wizard. If it took a lot of work to maintain or had a lot of problems with multiple users I'd probably just abandon it, but I've been running it for the better part of 15 years now and it's pretty solid/dummy proof in my experience.

Plexamp has completely replaced streaming services for me. Plex will now sonically scan any music you add and is able to give recommendations through Plexamp for sonically similar tracks, and also use that data to build mixes based on mood and style.

There are all sorts of auto generated mixes that Plexamp will make on it's own based on the music you have. You can also make a playlist of say, your top 20 tracks and when the playlist ends Plexamp will just start playing songs that match the sonic theme of what you've been playing so far. Note that I say sonically similar rather than of a similar genre. I love this because genres are often very subjective, and while Plex does take into account the tags you've given things, it also will group songs based on how they actually sound. You can control how many degrees of separation too if you want to keep the theme close to your playlist or just let it wander through your collection.

For me at least, Plexamp is every bit as good as Spotify. My music collection has grown to around 20,000 tracks over the years and it's pretty easy to get stuck on the same handful of artists. Mixes and auto playlist generation in Plexamp has helped me rediscover music I forgot I even have.