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Russia is the largest country on the planet, with boundless natural resources. All they need to do is learn how to keep their armies within those massive borders, and they would be everyone's favorite trading partner. Instead, they do ... this. They don't need to die. They just need to go home.

There are also the pre-order bonuses, like cool skins or early access. Caveat emptor on the actual value proposition.

Well, it eventually stopped missing...

It's funny reading people suggesting RSS on here as a way to replace Reddit. Aaron Schwartz helped create both of them.

I think that which 250k migrated will eventually end up making quite a significant dent. It isn't the technophobic lurkers that make up the Lemmy early adopters.

Maybe we'll eventually get the corresponding influx of tech writers.

Given its much smaller user base, it's a lot more likely that a human will see your post before it scrolls off of page 1 on Lemmy. There's a little less futility to posting

Agreed. As others have pointed out, voting helps to elevate higher quality posts (even if it doesn't always work that way), but karma takes that imperfect process to its ridiculous extreme.

That study has been called into question due to non-standard polling processes. The older study, sponsored by the American Association for Questionable Questionairres in 1973, is still considered the more trustworthy figure.

Not sure if this was an argument for karma, but it sounds like an argument for avoiding contraversy and trying to fit in This is why everyone on Reddit appears to have the same opinion. I much prefer a diversity of opinions, and no penalty for speaking one's mind (while treating each other with decency).

Karma makes sense, in theory, but in practice, it just punishes anyone who diverges from the herd.

I am not alone.

I feel like Outer Worlds should count. It's not post apocalyptic, but definitely heading there. And it's definitely inspired by Fallout. Made by some of the same people.