OmniGlitcher

There's been lots of rumours regarding the existence and the chips and etc. The only thing official before this was "We have no plans to release new hardware before the next fiscal year.", i.e. April 2024 is the earliest we could see it.

Some people also see the whole "Nintendo telling the Mario + Rabbids crew they should have waited for the next console for the sequel" thing to mean a new console is somewhat near. I don't believe that's indicative of that though.

The hybrid design is probably the way they're going to go. I'd love a higher spec one that isn't though, even if it's just a pipe dream. The ideal set-up for me personally would be:

• "New Switch Lite" - Undockable, permanently handheld, like the Switch Lite but with better hardware.

• "New Switch" - Dockable, again like the Switch, but better hardware.

• "New Switch Pro" - Undockable, permanently docked, better hardware than the New Switch.

New Switch obviously not the best name, but my creativity is bankrupt. At least it's not Switch U.

Small caveat, they specified "releasing" rather than "announcing". Otherwise yes, the 1st of April 2024 is supposedly the earliest we could see something released, assuming Nintendo didn't lie to their investors or nothing got muddled up in translation.

I suppose this does leave room for an announcement pre-2024/4/1, but I wouldn't count on it personally.

My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.

I think I only watched until the end of Season 5. I'd clocked out of it largely by that point. I applaud their attempts to keep it in tune with the rest of the cinematic universe, but it ruined a lot of the plot they had going. Something I think the big Avengers movies did with a lot of the regular character movies.

The whole issue regarding Inhumans being delayed and ultimately ending up being released later badly also doesn't help, considering AoS was trying to lead in to it with their mutants.

I just read the first two manga chapters in response to seeing this announcement. Seems a bit weird, but it's Pine Jam so I'll probably enjoy it.

I'm in a similar boat. I'd argue Lemmy has had more success than the other platforms from the other times this has happened, but whether or not that equates to its longevity remains to be seen.

In truth, I'd rather have something different to Lemmy, as there's various annoyances I've had and worries I have with this platform. At the same time, it's my current best hope for a Reddit replacement, and it's not so egregious as to be unusable.

users can easily create new accounts on any random server

That's not really the ideal scenario though. Perhaps it's fairly inconsequential for you personally, but I'd personally be rather irritated to need to create a new account, not only needing to re-subscribe to all the communities I followed, but also finding replacements should that instance that contained them go down.

However,

the direction that a lot servers are going, with having to type a paragraph to join

I have yet to encounter this, but this does sound positive.

I have actually done that with a community I'd personally be willing to moderate already. Naturally though, filling a community with a subreddit's worth of content solo is a challenging endeavour.

Even some of the less niche communities, for example, Zelda, aren't really existant here yet either. I'd create them all myself, but I wouldn't be willing to moderate them all.

What we have here already is good, but it will take a long time to develop until it attracts the userbase necessary for niche communities to thrive. This is far from a complaint, in case it happens to come across that way, it's simply a fact.

My main usage case of Reddit was for the more niche communities by and large, so I can definitely appreciate that.

It's the case at the moment where the "popular" communities feel niche, or at least similar to how they did when I first started Reddit back in 2012, and unfortunately the formerly niche Reddit communities are essentially non-existent here. I view this as an issue that will be fixed with time though, should Lemmy continue growing of course, so I don't really have a complaint about that for the moment.

My main issue is that it doesn't all come under one big "Lemmy" umbrella. Different instances have different rules and different accounts by definition of a federated space. I just think things are better managed if the site aligns with a single goal and singular ruleset, rather than having loads of little separate ones. I acknowledge this is entirely personal taste, I have no desire to force my viewpoint, it's just how I feel about it.

Defederation is also a big issue. There's lots of claims that federating the site prevents the next Spez for example. In my view, it really just opens up the possibility of a lot of micro-spezs. There's theoretically nothing stopping the guy who runs lemmy.world from pulling the plug tomorrow, leaving myself and whoever is left to try and pick up the pieces. This is true of any instance and the accounts and communities contained by said instance. Even if it's not quite as drastic as pulling the plug, they could certainly pull my access from here, which would be rather frustrating.

Again, I do believe it ultimately comes down to personal preference. I think I'm just more willing to put trust behind a larger entity than a bunch of smaller ones. It also means that issues with the site can be directed at a single source, and a larger entity with more "firepower" for lack of a better term is harder to take down via nefarious actors.

I have not, aside from the story I've been following for a while on /r/HFY, I haven't actually used Reddit at all since that certain AMA.

Sad to hear that, especially with the amount of bots they have in the comments over there that would be affected. Though I vaguely recall the mods there actually don't like the bots anymore, so maybe that's part of it.

I did the same once upon a time. Ultimately though, I decided that flagging them as annoying was a worse solution to just actively blocking them and never seeing anything else they post.

I think RES style tags would be great to implement, maybe even the up vote counter so you can track exactly how you're engaging with a particular user's content.

However as far as a web of trust goes, I'm not saying it can't work, but a web of trust would require a substantial userbase trusting or distrusting eachother to work effectively. It really just depends on whether the userbase at large would actively engage with that system, which I don't think it would but I'm also not representative of the userbase.

I also forsee some potential issues. Could highly trusted users become the next power users? Could pseudo "cliques" form depending on who trusts who? Could people be brigaded as untrustworthy, and receive whatever negative outcome that entails? What if you trusted someone years ago, later they come out with a lot of bad stuff, and that then reflects poorly on you? I know these are simply what-ifs, but these seem very possible to me with that kind of system.