I'm going to use three examples.

1. Reddit, High Moderation the absolute worst: I've seen many people including myself get wrongfully banned from that website, It has the strongest moderation possible that feels a bit authoritarian. It tracks your device with an ID and your IP albeit for 100 days. I've seen people getting banned because they were protesting against "ICE" as "Violence" I've known people getting banned on r/suicidewatch because when someone reports you on Reddit sometimes there's a bot saying "Hey, we are here for you" which is again crazy ironic that they don't have a team handling these sort of issues, not that it's their job to do so but due to Reddit's aggression with Bots and Filters it feels like hell.

I posted a NSFW themed meme on an NSFW community and within seconds the post was removed due to Reddit's filters leading with a permanent ban, What are Reddit's filters and what classifies as a "filter" who knows. I sent an appeal saying that my alt got banned wrongly (same email) but I know that they won't bother to check. Leaving someone with no choice other to start clean again which is against their rules as a Ban Evasion however I still believe it was a wrong decision so I'm worthy of another chance.

You can argue after Reddit's controversies with r/the_donald and a subreddit where there were people literally dying on camera, Reddit enforced harsher rules which is understandable, but what they still don't understand is that in case there's a mistake you need to have better ways of communicating with an actual person, the appeal message is 250 Characters long and that's it. There are literal Nazis there who haven't been banned but I did just because of a meme.

1. Lemmy, The Perfect Middle Ground: This website pretty much is in line with what I believe, that there should be moderation but without any stupid filters, karma requirements and power tripping mods, Is it because it's a much smaller community than reddit? Maybe. Will the rules ever change if Lemmy gets much more popular, Who knows?

2. 4Chan. The wild west: Almost to zero moderation, which to me is a bad thing because there will be people who will abuse that system and post illegal stuff and be borderline mental, I don't think I need to say more about that website.

To be fair there's still moderation, for example after the GamerGate drama posts on /v/ about specific people or e-celebrities is prohibited.

Basically, I've talked about this story before, I had an account with almost 100k karma, I liked participating posting high quality stuff. I think it's nice to be part of a community.

Then I posted an NSFW meme in an NSFW subreddit that triggered a bot and said "Your Post was Removed by Reddit's filters" and I thought, Welp it's fine I'll try to reupload it another time, I refreshed the browser and boom, I was permanently banned for absolutely no reason.

I don't know what the bot picked up since I literally didn't use a bad word, I didn't even think about appealing the ban because it doesn't like almost ever get checked by actual human beings, It's just a bot saying "No, we believe your ban was fair even though we didn't check it sorry"

So what now?

Welp Reddit mostly has a 100 Day IP policy, meaning they store your latest IP you got banned with or the one you signed up, for 100 days. Even though making a new account is considered a ban evasion, It's them sort of unofficially wink wink giving you another chance.

I do think their system is harsh because again Reddit is too big and whoever decided that it was a good idea to have an appeal system that doesn't get checked by human beings, wasn't the smartest guy. I think the proper appeal system would be to have some sort of a ticket and speak to a Reddit admin even after weeks, but to be fair It's one of the biggest community centered social media so I'm not sure how that could work, but hey maybe just saying don't ban people permanently unless for really messed up stuff, just saying.

Since then, I have changed my network I went on a new program with my ISP, not because of the ban but I basically upgraded my old connection, I have a dynamic IP and I thought why not, I've cleared my cookies, I've formatted my PC and technically, I'm in the clear already, however I haven't made a new account yet.

I might go back

Yeah eventually I will, don't get me wrong I do like Lemmy it doesn't have the bullshit filters Reddit has, with Reddit I always had this feeling that if I'm too active today I might trigger a bot that thinks I'm spamming so I always had this feeling that if I do something out of the norm I'll be banned for whatever reason, I've seen people getting banned for saying "Fuck ICE" so yeah.

I am a free speech absolutist, I think people should talk about their views. there were a couple of people on r/askconservative that were chill and r/politicalcompassmemes was mostly filled with edgy fascists but to be fair it was fun, because you got to read different views and I admire that in a way.

I do think there should be moderation, as is on Lemmy. I believe without moderation you could have people trying to maliciously "abuse" the system, but Reddit has to cut the bullshit bots that just wrongly flag your messages, so far with Lemmy it's much smoother but it's not as populated which is a big issue for me because with Reddit I used many niche subreddits.

So will I go back on Reddit? Probably yeah, am I rushing though? No.

I'm quite younger so I wasn't around that format war but depends on who you ask you get different responses.

This might make seem like a douche but so be it. I hate "ur" I hate "hi" basically anything that doesn't seem like it's written by a human being I hate it. I lose interest on Hinge when I receive a "Hiiiii"

It's petty yes but I don't believe I'm on a high horse.

(Basically a response I made on a community, feel like it belongs here too)

I think toxic podcasts have a big influence on young men, especially those who grew up without strong father figures. My own dad wasn’t perfect (I joke a bit about it on my profile), and many of us went through that risky “2015 phase” of consuming unhealthy online content.

What many politicians and advocates on the left often overlook is that toxic masculinity isn’t solved by telling men to be “less masculine.” You can actually counter unhealthy masculinity with healthy masculinity. Instead of shaming men, we should be teaching a better version of manhood one that includes therapy, emotional intelligence, and being able to talk honestly about what’s going on inside.

As corny as it sounds there’s a reason when there’s a bad take by a misinformed feminist calling all men evil on twitter ganders a response like “This is why men turn right” and sure while that stuff doesn’t work on me anymore, It’s not 2015-2016 there’s still some vulnerable people that unfortunately fall for it, does that mean though that the feminist is wrong in her views? Not really, but I’m not talking about myself I’m talking about a lot of men that do fall for it.

Most working-class men who grind through 9–5 jobs, going from shift to shift, are worried about affordability and stability. If someone comes along and says “I’m going to make your life easier,” that’s who they’ll vote for even if it’s Trump. You can call them naïve or say the leopards ate their face or whatever , but the reality is that many of these men are desperate for change. And they’ll keep voting for whoever promises that change. When society pushes these men aside or dismisses them, some end up looking for someone to blame. That’s when you get people saying, “Women are the reason my life is hard,” or “Jews control everything.”

Of course, some people are genuinely racist or sexist, and there will always be trolls who just want attention. But why do those trolls exist in the first place? Often it’s because they feel insignificant, and attaching themselves to extreme movements gives them a sense of identity and purpose they don’t have otherwise.

Goofy character and title aside I really like my free flight, I haven't done any cargos yet which is what I want to do, the performance is terrible I'm on a i7-10700, rx6700xt with 32gb of ram and yeah the game is installed on my nvme. The Orison planet was the worse so far in terms of performance but on my space jump travel the game completely froze on me for a few seconds.

All and all I've been hopping on free flights here and then, I don't remember my last one but I still like the scale of it, I liked the music when you first flew your ship, the game definitely does what Starfield failed to do in a way i.e space exploration

If you have anything on how to fix my performance that would be great, guys on chat said I should raise my settings to leave the load of my CPU

Ask me anything as I wait almost an hour for my impound to expire

In this post I'm talking about Death Stranding 1 please don't spoil anything from Death Stranding 2

I've always been a fan of Hideo Kojima games. I wondered what that man could possibly bring to the table after the MGS series. he experimented with Silent Hills but it didn't quite pan out, To my disappointment, in 2019 his next video-game would be a PS4 exclusive and I didn't have one, so much like this community I was patient and waited.

While I was waiting, I remember checking how divisive this game was, a Hideo Kojima game that didn't crack the 90s on Metacritic. What did the game do that disappointed some people? Well, when I heard the words "Walking Simulator," I thought, Oh no...

I held that Oh no for years until I finally played it as a free game on Epic Games Store 2 years ago, and that Oh no turned into Oh yes, this is actually good.

Story:

Story-wise, Kojima isn't known for writing brilliance, not just with women characters. I guess in Metal Gear Solid V I liked him quite a lot he somewhat proved that he could write a gritty story with serious political undertones, until it goes back to fantasy villains. Quiet thrusting her ass at the camera to remind you that you are playing in fact a Hideo Kojima game, Dude has his fetishes as we all do I certainly do (profile says duh), you do, It's like expecting a Tarantino movie not to have feet in it. I don't blame the guy.

Kojima has always been portrayed as this larger than life developer, a genius a guy who can't do no wrong and for a lot of his career we always placed him above a pedestal, people like to point out mistakes and miracles onto one person, however Kojima Productions is a team with other hundred talented developers.

But a new start for Hideo, well the story of Death Stranding is about rebuilding America, and I wish Kojima had left it at that without going into detail, because the cutscenes bore me and some of them didn't make sense, In the MGS games I was invested with the characters so I didn't mind long cutscenes, In Death Stranding though I don't know why he expected us to have the same sort of connection, I personally didn't care much about what anyone had to say, there were some highlights but not a scene I could go and watch back.

The writing at times was quite laughable specifically the "I'm not that fragile line" and "I'm Mario and you are princess beach" which sounded funny, a lot of dialogue in DS could be attributed as "Characters delivering exposition to you" which in a non gameplay context like if you compare Kojima's writing to RDR2, Kojima's mumbo jumbo doesn't make any sense, I found myself laughing at it than with it. So if I didn't like the story what did I like about it so much?

Well, Gameplay:

Okay, this is why I loved this game, and this is where the game needed to deliver and deliver it did. The game has an enjoyable gameplay loop, and it's a really simple loop: here's a package, deliver it there. How you do it is up to you. Do you want to walk there? Use ladders in neat areas that give other players an advantage? You do you. I'm not going to hold your hand figure it out yourself

My only gripe was that I didn't understand how many players I was collaborating with. I'd assume there were a lot of players because I would occasionally walk by a ladder that made my distance much easier, and it would have a lot of likes.

But a fair argument would be: well, if you're trying to skip the game with clever structures that basically skip entire terrains, what's the point of even going through all the trouble? Well, the game doesn't force you to take them—whether you decide to is up to you. But what I like about the game is that it's your basic human instinct that says "I need some help," because the deliveries feel like a journey and you just can't wait to finally catch a rest at an outpost. And to me, that's what mattered, you actually were immersed as if you were Sam all along.

My favorite moment and basically the part that solidified the experience for me was when I was walking down a hill when unexpectedly Low Roar's I'm Leaving started playing, I literally felt chills and thought, Holy shit the game is absolutely beautiful when it wants to be, I immidiatelly added the song on my playlist and walked to my destination as soon as the song started to fade away.

Are the mechanics perfect? No, obviously there's some clunky stuff. But the game, for me, delivered on what it set out to do which is a journey.

The destination, though? Was it worth it? Eh. The bosses weren't all that great they felt needless. I wish Kojima experimented more with the ideas he had rather than just throwing some bosses your way. There was a war section I didn't like while the setting was cool, it felt like I was playing a Third person shooter when the game tried to have a story beat instead of serving me that gameplay loop which I liked, it failed.

All and all Death Stranding for me was a gameplay marvel that saved the whole game from being disappointing and for free? What a steal, I'll play Death Stranding 2 someday.

Thanks for the support on my Cyberpunk review I really like posting reviews here :)

Reddit had a PM which is basically sending a Private Message, Lemmy has that as well but Reddit also had chat which I enjoyed because it popped up as a small window on the bottom of the screen and I could use Reddit and chat at the same time.

Are these similar in a way? Thank you for your help, I'm new to Lemmy but I'm enjoying my stay so far.

Basically I haven't played this game in like forever, I remember I touched it twice while it was free to play years ago, I remember liking the idea of going through corridors just to find my ship and how realistic it was, I like the scale of it.

However it might be cause of my ADHD but I don't like when games have like a hundred things you have to grind, my favorite thing to do was just delivering packages for credits, how much has it changed since like 2022 or 2023.