Yep no DNS blocker will stop fullscreen local scripts from running. This shit is why forums and the legacy web are dead

I’ve seen many a forum in my day, but I clicked the X before I saw one at that dogshit URL

I mean, in a lot of ways the social media takeover is the antithesis to freedom of information. It’s all siloed off echo chambers where it used to be free flowing, publicly available, indexable and searchable.

I still believe in the freedom of information goal more than ever, but fighting for it in the post information era is increasingly difficult (and important)

Yeah it’s pretty bleak, although there have been some moves towards right to repair in recent years.

Respecting companies is always a bit fraught though. Even the ones you like are only doing it to profit off of your niche. It’s thanks to us that they even have a profitable niche to serve

AA is where it’s at now. There’s still insanely good games coming out, there just not by companies like EA and Activision anymore.

In some ways I think the good development studios are the same size they’ve always been, it’s just that a new class of mainstream games has risen to profit on the masses. If you ignore those, it’s not so bad. At least not until one of the AAA publishers gets their hands on them to ruin the IP and layoff the original devs

You have to go back like 30 years to get to a pro-repair Apple

That’s amazing but I was immediately wondering why the big bunny was robbing the smaller ones

Windows be like

cd …

ls

grumble grumble

dir

I’d leave it on read and probably never talk to you again

And we’re back to every day

This is my point when it comes to federation stuff. You don’t need to understand it at all to use Lemmy. Join and start scrolling just like you would on reddit

Yeah, that’s the type of motive I was struggling to find. I could absolutely see that happening.

Most of us are on both, because Lemmy still isn’t big enough

Realistically the solution would be instances moving away from the Lemmy ‘brand’. You could more easily direct users to a specific one and fast track newbies past all the fediverse details.

If we go with the email analogy, people rarely ever search for ‘email’, they just go to the specific ones they know. Then searching for lemmy gets you to places like join-lemmy.org that cares about the ecosystem, while terms analogous to gmail directs you more to a specific instance.

And I think this sort of branding model actually more compatible with the idea of decentralization. As a culture, I think we would better serve federation by directly linking and promoting our preferred instances, rather than harping on about federation and the lemmyverse.

Sure, but the complaints I see are never “I don’t see content there that I like”, it’s always “its too complicated and I can’t sign up/see content at all”

but if you make it to any Lemmy site, you’re right there on the home feed instantly, same as reddit.

So is it really a problem of users not even making it to an instance? Are they really all getting brick-walled by join-lemmy.org, or is something else going on here?

Yes, you’re a pedant intentionally missing the point to argue a different definition than the one I’m using

It really looks like you’re being intentionally obtuse here.

I’m in hundreds of discord servers, most of which have 10,000 to 300,000 thousand users each.

I do still use IRC, and I rarely find a server with more than 1000 users, most of which are bots, or users who only send bot commands. A typical ‘active’ channel has less than 10 active chatters over a week. IRC is dead.

I’m happy you are able to find niche use cases for it, but that’s obviously not what I’m talking about.

The fact of the matter is this: if I want to engage with any of the hundreds of broad communities I frequent, I am not able to do that on IRC anymore. They are just not there.

Maybe a knee high fence. It will slow the most basic and casual botting, and maybe eliminate some of that very very basic ROI, but it won’t do anything to stop the real professionals.

We see countless examples in games. It’s an arms race and all you can do is mitigation. As long as there’s something to be gained from botting, they’ll exist. It’s only a matter how much.

Nothing, it’s just additional friction and cost to create them