CoderKat

kbin currently has a bug with the [!Utah@kbin.social](/c/Utah@kbin.social) syntax. Your link becomes https://kbin.social/c/Utah@kbin.social, which isn't valid (should be https://kbin.social/m/Utah). It's a little weird because while the c/ part is what we'd expect if it was a Lemmy sub, it still shouldn't be repeating the domain. I'm sure that'll be fixed shortly, though. Maybe I'll go dig into the code myself.

At any rate, the @Utah@kbin.social syntax should work in kbin. I'm unclear if it works for Lemmy. Here's a link so you can try it: @Utah

EDIT: filed https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/issues/199

Ah, thanks. Done! To save anyone else thinking similar from having to scroll up, it's: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/kbin

As someone who enjoys games and loves to discuss them, it's really disappointing what so many gamers are like. I like to call them "capital-G gamers" to differentiate them from those who simply enjoy games as a hobby.

Capital-G gamers are the ones who do stuff like send death threats to people who gave their favourite game a bad review. They're the ones who will review bomb a game because the game includes the "political" gender (i.e., women). They're also the ones who will ardently defend toxic practices like lootboxes. That one probably isn't the same individuals as the other examples -- the point being that capital-G gamers are a diverse group that can largely be summed up by one character trait: toxic.

I haven't played CK2 yet, but if its DLC is like Stellaris or Cities: Skylines, it's arguably usually worth it. Very expensive when you add it all up and not all DLC is worth it (e.g., the race packs of Stellaris aren't really that interesting), but for how much play time you'll get out of the game, it's pretty great. I regularly think about how often I want to go back to Stellaris lol. Part of the reason I haven't tried CK2 yet is because I'm pretty confident that I'll love it and be sucked in for weeks.

That is so sad.

(alexa play despacito. Do we still do that?)

Hi
My name is Joe
And I work in a button factory
One wife.
Three kids.
And a dog WOOF WOOF

Do you have the link on hand? I'll pour one out too.

What I'm most happy about is that the Fediverse so far seems to be mostly actually pretty good people (though I've been largely chilling in kbin since the blackout started -- it only just turned on federation). Most past attempts to abandon reddit only saw the most toxic, horrible people leave. Sites like Voat were never an option because the users were awful. It's nice that so far, I haven't really seen any of that. In fact, it feels the opposite, with the people who left reddit being disproportionately great people, with the toxic people being more likely to stay on reddit.

I wonder if it'll last? I hope so. I wanted to leave reddit in the past but never felt like there was anywhere comparable to go that wasn't shit.

I don't get that. Cyberpunk is by no means perfect. But how is it not a complete game? I put in a ton of hours and thoroughly enjoyed it. Are you saying that because the AI was bad, it's incomplete? Cause very, very few games are complete if that's the benchmark we use.

It got over hyped, but capital G gamers did what they do best and blew it out of proportion as if someone kicked their baby.

Note: I played on PC several months after launch. Maybe it was incomplete when it came out, but it sure as hell ain't now.

Honestly I think it's weird that they don't know how reddit works. Surely advertising experts need to know how the platform they're advertising works? Otherwise reddit can shill whatever bullshit they want at the advertiser's expense.

Yeah, I recall some subs I'm in explicitly said they'd blackout for two days, then reopen and ask users what they want to do, which is an extremely reasonable approach.

I plan to check in tomorrow for exactly that reason and everyone else here should, too. If the people who agree with the blackout don't go back tomorrow to announce their support for an indefinite blackout, it shifts the ratio of remaining people in favour of ending the blackout.

And even for those who don't intend to return to reddit, the blackout is a good thing because it will drive further people to sites like this. We need content creators. I don't think we've hit critical mass yet. And the front page feels very dominated by news about reddit, which does not have long term potential. This site cannot be just a place to complain about reddit.

though I don’t doubt they would just rely on web scrapers without it.

They absolutely can. Bots have been around for decades even for sites that don't offer an API. There's plenty of libraries meant for programmatically interacting with webpages. It's not much harder and mostly it's just very annoying because it's fragile and can be easily caught by honeypots, which makes it a bad approach for legitimate users who don't want to risk a ban.

Plus, only one person actually has to create and maintain a library that utilizes scraping. Every other bot owner can just use that library to make it easier.

So basically removing API access is just a slight barrier for malicious bots but a major barrier for any legitimate usage.