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One of the larger instances is lemmynsfw.com, there’s a fair amount of porn there.

Not quite the levels there are on Reddit, though. And very little OC from what I’ve seen.

kbin is also a part of the fediverse. It’s similar enough to Lemmy that (as far as I can tell) they seem to be virtually interchangeable.

One thing that definitely contributed to this: when these games were coming out, those of us who were reading the gaming magazines at the time were aware that Sony had taken the IP away from the original devs, Singletrac, between 2 and 3. So we went in skeptical, and then… the controls were squishy, the power ups all looked the same (replaced the 2D icons with 3D pickups in an age where that just did not work), the weapons didn’t pack as much visceral ppunch… it just didn’t feel right. And knowing that this was an entirely different dev team, “not feeling right” felt like a betrayal. So while 3 probably isn’t a massive downgrade from 2 in an objective sense, that feeling of betrayal turned mild disappointment into HAAAAATE.

And then Rogue Trip came out, which was the new car combat game from Singletrac, and there was a collective “oh, this is what TM3 was supposed to feel like.” And that didn’t help matters.

I think the lighting on the original was quite good, enough that adding raytracing is only adding a tiny bit more.

What it really needs is upscaled textures tbh.

Yeah that would be trivial for them to block. With their new API changes I’d be slightly surprised if it even works at all. (Only slightly)

October/October no notes

Or promising to change

That’s not an “inherent flaw”. It’s a flaw that currently exists in Lemmy, but one that could be easily remedied with a patch that adds a “report” link to the profile. An inherent flaw would be one that is difficult or impossible to mitigate due to the concept of Lemmy.

Because piracy isn’t legal. For anything that can run afoul of the law, or bad publicity, or advertisers’ preferences, Reddit admins have to keep the content on a tight leash. Lemmy doesn’t have advertisers to worry about as it’s supported directly by users, and not being a for-profit company makes it somewhat harder for the law to come down on it (and if they do, the community can easily move). Really, it’s a fundamental advantage of federation.

Anything that is posted that is publicly viewable on the internet, cannot be deleted. Full stop, end of sentence. It may be deleted from the original service, but it will have been archived by services elsewhere within hours (or more likely minutes).

Any service that promises the ability to delete public posts is selling false privacy.

Very surreal (and a little flattering?) to search out a Bluey community on Lemmy and immediately see my own post from the Bingo Facebook group reposted here…

(For clarity, I am not upset about the repost. Cheers!)