That's why this whole debacle is so mystifying to me. If they would have tried to monetize the 3rd party space by way of charging a reasonable API price to the devs, it's not hard to imagine that most serious Reddit users wouldn't have any qualms with parting with a few bucks here and there to keep the status quo. I can't imagine that Reddit is able to create a situation where they earn more from their advertising platform per user than having users simply pay to maintain the existing experience.

The only theory I've heard that makes a lick of sense is that if Reddit fundamentally changes the site experience to pursue other monetization options (Hello Reddit NFTs), then 3rd party apps would've been able to just ignore implementing those features entirely.

That's the real killer for me. I didn't like Reddit's API business decision, but when they think they can just lie to everyone about the entire situation surrounding it that's what's getting me to nuke my accounts and ditch the platform completely.

Utterly disrespectful.

I agree with Jamie. While it is certainly possible for a bad actor to spin up burner instances for the purposes of evading defederation, that's a disproportionate amount of effort compared to just creating a new account somewhere that already exists.

Will we see it happen? Probably. But it honestly seems easier to deal with than if those bad actors were to hide themselves in established instances.

I've always been pretty good about limiting my casual reddit browsing to only when I have literally nothing else I can productively do with my time, so I'm very pleased that for the most part Lemmy and kbin can already pretty effectively fill that gap for me despite containing a fraction of the firehose that is reddit.

And you're absolutely right that it's a great excuse to refocus on any other hobby.

Whoa, what a cool project! It seems like way more than I need for single-user purposes, but I've been relying on Moonlight, Sunshine, and Chiaki quite a lot more than I ever expected to since I ended up taking quite a liking to using the Steam Deck as a pseudo thin-client. Kind of the best of both worlds letting another machine do the heavy lifting somewhere else in the house, so any advancements in the local game streaming space are extremely welcome to see.

Glad to hear about your successes in the trip! I'm still incredibly early in my own studies, but I've heard the best way to study listening comprehension is by regularly consuming media in the language. What that looks like might change depending on someone's particular interests, but I've really enjoyed putting on Japanese Twitch streams in the background for games I already know (or don't have any need to know, like competitive esports).

As expected, quite a lot flew over my head. But I was also surprised by how much I picked up on, both from the gradual improvement of my more formal studies and also from the loan words that tend to show up when talking about games. And I'm able to leverage my existing knowledge of the subject matter to just let my brain do what it can to contextualize what it's hearing.

I've noticed the same situation in some threads on my own instance too. But I'm under the impression that it might just be backlogged on the responsible instance that's supposed to send out the federated content. I've noticed this when just having my home feed set to New and then suddenly seeing like thirty posts from lemmy.world come across all at once with widely varied timestamps.

I suppose the best way to test if this is the case would be to note down any threads that are missing substantial amounts of comments on your local server and then check back with that thread periodically to see if and when they start to fill in.

I definitely wouldn't be surprised if there's a notable overlap there. Probably not a stretch to imagine that the technically-minded users would be more in tune with the protest.

Ohhh Gamber isn't one I'd considered before. Just from what I'm imagining, it could be another proc-based job and maybe share some inspiration with the AST card system for its job resource system. I think a job that shares the Scouting set is a likely addition, and this might fit that scenario.

Either way, would love to see it happen one day.

I had a strange issue where the Store interface couldn't be interacted with until I swapped to the Library and back again. I side-stepped the issue by just telling Steam to always open to the Library tab on launch which is honestly preferable behavior anyways.

Thanks for the helpful tool! Posting this from my new single-user Lemmy instance. I ended up tweaking the compose template a bit to remove Caddy since I already have it running on this VPS for other services. Wasn't too bad to just take the Caddyfile information and add it to my own existing framework.

An interesting approach. It essentially turns the thumbnail into a thumbprint.

I snagged a couple of VPS from Racknerd in the Black Friday sale. One of them became a home for my Mastodon instance and now the other gets my new Lemmy instance. No issues to speak of with them yet, so I'm perfectly happy with 'em.

Guilty Gear -STRIVE- is one that really stood out to me recently. It's was my first exposure to the series, but I really enjoy how they use each character's theme as a chance to flesh them out and tell their story.

Katana ZERO ended up being a standout soundtrack to me as well. I think the impact is greater if your first exposure to them is in the context of playing the game, but the tracks do stand really well on their own merits too.

I'd also mention Paradise Killer for a really entrancing exploration of City Pop, Jazz Fusion, some Funk, and other such genres. IMO the OST is the secret sauce for the game's setting and mood in a really fundamental way.

Back on more mainstream games, Yasunori Nishiki's work on the soundtracks for both Octopath Traveler 1 & 2 is outstanding. For anyone on board with the style of music typical of JRPG soundtracks, they are very worth your time.

Absolutely, it's an incredible soundtrack. It does so much heavy lifting on setting the game's ambiance and tone that I couldn't imagine it with anything else.

Both phenomenal picks. The Bomberman 64 soundtrack is dear to me since I used to speedrun that game for quite a while. The euphoria of the staff roll hitting has never gone away. And Katana Zero is great for getting the player in to a flow state. I love how visceral it gets on some tracks, too.

The classic! For me, I gotta give it to Heavens Divide from Peace Walker. Such good music to pick from across the series.

Probably another replay of the parable of the Nazi bar. But as the end of the article says, people who don’t want to hang out at the Nazi bar will just go elsewhere.

At least if things get to that point, we'll hopefully have had some time to really build up places for those people to go.

Absolutely gonna be checking out that Sea of Stars demo later. 👀