I mean, "karma" here is meaningless (not that on reddit it meant much) since your account doesnt show how much upvotes youve gotten making it virtually meaningless aside of ascending posts to top and hot.
I do enjoy seeing high numbers on other people's posts right now since it somewhat reflects how many users are interacting in some form in Lemmy
Make a difference how? Because he asked if it makes for better gameplay, which I interpreted as an advantage in game (ex. Reaction time) instead of how smooth it feels, which for advantage it really shouldn't matter for a singleplayer game that doesn't require to be milliseconds faster than the oponent and isn't designed with such minute differenses, unlike csgo. Because of that it really doesn't make a difference gameplay wise.
But if it's about how it feels, I agree that they feel different, once you go back to 60 it feels less fluid, but it won't really change your results in game. And that difference is only noticeable once you play at 144 so it isn't necessary recommendedable to spend a lot of money in a new monitor.
But at the end of the day, it is about personal preference if you are going for graphics on ultra or 144hz/fps and graphics on high as it's a difference on how the game feels, the best thing is to go to a hardware store and ask if you can test a monitor or see if a friend has one to see if the difference on feeling for the fps is worth the money for the new monitor
TLDR: it won't affect the gameplay. It is a noticeable upgrade but probably not as much as having higher graphics, what you prioritize is up to you but you won't really notice it is at 60 if you haven't played at 144 before.
Better gameplay? No definitely not, even for shooters unless you are at a really high skill level it is extremely improvablebit actually affects youe skill if thr frames are consistent.
It is notable, in the sense that if you play at 144 fps when you go back to 60 fps you can feel yhe difference, but after a few hours you stop noticing it. The most important thing is consistentcy, as long as you have no frame drops you will be so focused on the game that it being lower frames is irrelevant. And you will (probably) need to lower the graphics to run cyberpunk at 144 and it will be more noticeable than the frames, especially if you don't play at 144 before. It is of course nice to play at 144, but at the end of the day it is a matter of personal preference on single player games if you go for frames or graphics.
The fact we are seeing posts with almost 3k upvotes has me really impressed
Fine, I just don't get the echo chamber feeling but admittedly I only use beehive for gaming/anime/escapism hobby related communities so I haven't seen it being all about conteolling politics, at least not directly.
At the end of the day I barely get what you mean by controlling politics, since it is not apparent on the communities I visit. Also keep in mind, I'm not american so if this is about the culture war over there or a republicans vs democrats thing I probably won't notice it since it hasn't affected any discussion I've had.
But I would need concrete examples for me to see it as authoritarian because in a vacuum as I explained I can see communities pulling this kind of conduct without it being about controlling the discourse per se but more about helping communities.
Edit: forgot to say, but if it was over politics I don't think that would necessitate a ban lemmy.world (or alternative ly that would mean complete defederation) since it has no clear political affiliation, I see it just it being massive and difficult to moderate otherwise they would have targeted many other toxic instances way before touching .world.
No one knows if corporations have a way to mess this up yet, which has in turn fueled the push against META joining the space.
But by design it is safeguarded, it is all about horizontal growth, instances aren't thought to grow indefinitely so it is encouraged that people make their own instances to spread the load. As long as we have this option a corporation can't take over since as you said everyone can just defederate, or if they are part of an instance that has been corrupted by corporate instance you can just move over to other instance. This is the key difference with a centralized service, in reddit yes you have different subs with different rules and moderators , but at the end of the day you are all under the whims of reddit and have no sub to escape to once reddit fucks ip. Here if the equivalent of reddit where to fuck up, start banning people or defederating with everyone once it grows big enough, you can just move to other instance inmediatly and aboid the problem.
That is why I'm not really that worried of corporations making instances regardless of how big they get because as long as the protocol remains unchanged we can all just flee with no issue.
It also supports peertube!
I use it a lot, just a heads up for anyone interested, on google play the app is paid, but the app is free on F-droid and uploaded by the same devs, no features missing to my knowledge.
Think of the google play app more like a donation (or if you are like me, buy it because you are too lazy to got to F-droid) but be aware the app is actually free and one of the best when it comes to mastodon.
A feauture it has is that it lets you have as many timelines as you want, be it for instances or even tags so that you are not restricted to your subscribed, local and all but you can just choose a random instance and save their timeline to browse whenever you want.
Edit: forgot to mention, technically it supports the entire fediverse, but you will be restricted to your mastodon UI if you follow lemmy or kbin accounts, which means you will see likes and boosts instead of upvote/downvote. It is not ideal, in fact I would recommend having a separate lemmy app, but you can do it.
I have seen some definitions use primarily sexual instead of only sexual and even then this kind of recordings are far, far, from actual CP
Nope, in the same way someone amassing photos from children's beauty pageant wouldn't constitute CP.
No clue why people are saying that if the collection is big enough it eould be CP. Thas is not (to my knowledge) how we define CP.
I quickly read this, which is a spanish article on the legislation on Chile comparing it to the rest of the world. You probably could google translate it if you are really interested. It talks about international definitions, other country drfinitions then the Chilean law and finally about how vague the terms used usually are and how to interpret.
From my read, CP laws usually focus on minors being used in materials that show them either doing sexual activities or that are meant for sexual excitement. Even nudity, by itself, is not CP (imagine you take photos of a nude child for a medical archive). Some other commonly seen requisites are that what is shown is primarily sexual and that the objective is the satisfaction of sexual desire. Some even separate plainly erotic content from sexual ones, but that is a big discussion in of itself and I don't know if it is relevant to US law.
Point being, nope, I don't think this conduct would constitute CP under US law (or any other for ghe matter) because it is not something that constitutes "explicit sexual conduct"
Please look at the community you are in right now :)
Why would you not be welcome? Is it for your political opinions? Even if it were, I don't think they would personally shun you unless it entails attacking minorities.
That aside, and having said that of course it is everyone's perrogative to judge this behavior, I personally feel it is an exaggeration. Not every instance is about free speech nor should they be, at the end of the day the fediverse is about creating communities, one is able and should shape them into what their vision of that is. This is not authoritarianism, in this case they said it is due to their inability to moderate.
Even if it weren't for that, it is good that communities don't federate with every instance, aa I said, not everyone is about free speech and changing opinions some are here to have a good time and for that adequate protection is necessary.
I myself prefer deciding myself when to block other instances, so I joined one that let's users decide. But if other instances decided to block us I would understand and either move on or join another instance to interact with them without thinking much about it (having multiple accounts is kind of easy on the apps,)
I think I'm kind of used from servers blocking one another from my time on mastodon and I've seen the necessity of the practice, for example an anime focused group blocking bot instances, brigading, alt right groups, etc.
I thought it was something like this.
Personally I wouldnt recommend it due to the massive price difference between 4k 60 and 4k 144, as I said it is not something you notice unless you already play at 144fps which makes going back to 60 a bad experience. It is not something that results in a significantly better experience in that sense, sure playing at 144 is nice, but it is not something you notice as much as having better graphics (again, this is subjective, I personally have an 144hz monitor but I do play a lot of multiplayer games, and even then sometimes I play at 60 fps if it means significantly better graphics on single player games)
The best possible thing you could do is go to a hardware store that has monitors on display or ask if you can try it and see for yourself the difference and if its worth it, but as an abstract idea without knowing you personally I would recommend going for a 60 hz monitor, especially since you could allocate that difference in money to other parts of your build or peripherals.
And even if you were to decide to play multiplayer, believe me the difference is response timing is not that big and once you get accustomed to it your brain kind of gets used and starts predicting things geared towards that framerate, neglecting some of the advantage of higher framerates, I believe this idea was on a Linus Tech Tips video a few years back they did with Shroud, dont know how true it was but its out there if you are interested.