Astrovenator

joined 1 year ago
[–] Astrovenator 19 points 1 year ago

Barely a week in and we all get an awesome example of why decentralisation is a good thing

[–] Astrovenator 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It's a valid point. We can't expect to be free of corporations and also expect people to maintain servers for free. Running a service costs someone somewhere, and running a massive service can't easily work relying on just donations. I'd be happy to pay a small monthly/yearly fee to a nonprofit to guarantee an independent server, rather than to be a product to be traded.

[–] Astrovenator 3 points 1 year ago

I think it's just that the whole concept of shooting/ gunplay really lends itself to the first person viewpoint. Another example is racing games or flight sims. Plus, aiming/ shooting is a great example of easy to pick up, hard to master skills in both games and real life. So I think it's just a natural use of the technology

[–] Astrovenator 7 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't trust it for a hot second. If there's one thing people do not miss, it's money. And if they are banks, they'll throw the book at you to get it back. I'd call them and not touch my account until it was sorted.

[–] Astrovenator 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good, I almost took an interest in my family last week

[–] Astrovenator 8 points 1 year ago

Mastodon let's you do exactly this, I think lemme should too

[–] Astrovenator 3 points 1 year ago

I too have landed on lemmy world. Seems nice here. I've noticed a lot of timing out over on lemmy.ml lately, seems they're getting dogpiled lol

[–] Astrovenator 1 points 1 year ago

For sure, we've been spoiled by by VC-funded slick polished apps for too long. If we want freedom from coporate control we gotta accept some jank.

[–] Astrovenator 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Hi. I just got here too. The app is bad and it's a little quiet but it seems to be full of nice folk. It's got that feeling of starting fresh.

[–] Astrovenator 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I sank so so many hours into OW1 in the first two years... I barely touched OW2. Its a hollowed out, soulless imitation of the original. Fuck what Blizzard has become.

[–] Astrovenator 20 points 1 year ago

Fuck yes I was hoping formuladank would make the jump. Instasub

[–] Astrovenator 84 points 1 year ago

Wow it really IS like Twitter!

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