But is this not an evil move to do that? force responsibility on others?

• super tux cart
  • ... I actually was surprised by the maps with cool shortcuts
  • nice singleplayer experience, if you just want to chill while listening to some of your music offline
• Zero-K in case you miss supreme commander / like managing a robot army
  • some robots are cheap and expandable, some are expensive and have special abilities that require micromanagement.
  • I personally play in skirmish mode against bots
• 0AD if you like micro manage your own RTS population
• minetest
  • minceclone2 "subgame" to get somewhat interesting mobs
  • I wrote some mods for it myself in lua, adding static blocks is way easier than adding any kind of ~~intelligent~~ mob

do they work on Linux without additional driver installs?

in ancient rome they had public toilets like these, so they could talk while ... accessing toilet services ... makes me wonder if "shame" associated with the toilet is an invention from the middle ages?

The registration process for an account is annoying: Having to look into email and having to explain how you are not a bot ... I guess? Also I can not imagine this scale well, if every registration request is checked by a human. Is there no better solution?

The borders of spain did not change at all since then?

damn ... why is there so much unclaimed white space in (north) africa? Below Tunis for example... why did no one claim the Sahara space until/ before colonization?

• 👎 Con reddit: Buggy web page on desktop. It always asks me to use the app on mobile. No thanks.
• 👍 Pro: Lemmy: fast loading web page, no banners. It works.

Since Lemmy instance are not backed by commercial interest, but rather by nice volunteers and donors that have money and time to spare, they will be heavily affected by economic downturns (we still can see commercial interests still affect users negatively tho with reddit). Here are my thoughts on the matter:

• as far as I understand the owner of the domain: https://lemmy.world even has to pay for this fancy domain name in the DNS system ... every month subscription service style
  • (and tbh I hate the Domain name system) why should I fund it with my own money?
  • if you hosted with an onion site over tor that expenditure would not exist, but how would users discover your site then? Let me know if you know something about this
• in times of deflation (meaning money becomes worth more, spending some money on a self hosted lemmy instance becomes nonsensical)
• tbh if I hosted a lemmy instance and the users of my instance posted high quality content in quantity I would use it to train my own LLM, that would at least create some economic incentive for me to host such a page ... but managing spam and bots will be HARD

That is why you should always back up your comments on your personal device, would be nice if lemmy had an automated way of doing this (I should look into this more)

there are multiple ways evil can behave on lemmy:

trolling

• trolling, it is annoying, if 25% of all posts are troll posts, the site can be annoying to use.
  • content voting systems can mitigate this tho, but bots will eventually find a way to game this?
• the difference between trolling and spamming (imo): trolls type in their message with a physical keyboard. Spammers use bots to automate trolling

(Bot) Spamming / automated troll farms

• spamming, creates huge load on storage capacity of the server owner, not good if you host for ~~free~~
  • spam can be hard to detect in the age of chatgpt LLMs in general, because normal spam would be detected by how random it is. for example

adfjakjdfkl would be easily detected as spam

• spamming huge amounts of text is still better than spammers creating huge amounts of video and photographs
• proof of work algorithms can mitigate this issue somewhat, tho this also makes performance worse for everyone

any other thoughts on proof of work, or how evil doers can behave on social media sides?