Kichae

Well, the different "instances" are different websites, each hosting and serving their own copy of the original post and comments. You're interacting with your local copy, and your comments are forwarded along to the original website. The original website then sends out copies of your comment to all the other websites that have requested updates.

If your website has banned someone, it will reject content from that user. That's what being banned means: I refuse to host your posts. Just because your posts are being routed through a 3rd party doesn't mean I want to host them.

Like, if you got banned from Reddit, they wouldn't let you post there, either. If you commented on a mirror of a post, hosted on a different website, you wouldn't expect that comment to show up on Resdit, would you? Well, that's what the fediverse is: a network of content mirrors. Yes, they're mirrors that, generally, tey to synchronize with each other, but they're still mirrors. And independent mirrors at that.

They will never be perfectly synchronized. There's no true Lemmy to reflect. No whole. There is only what is locally hosted.

I feel it’s odd to ban people I don’t like for their behavior outside the community.

If you're polite in my house, but I hear you're talking shit behind my back, you're not welcome in my house anymore.

I'm glad you're OK with it, and I get not wanting a space to become a billboard, but there's a wider trend of the fediverse being somewhat hostile to creatives who make a living actually creating things, because everyone hates how they're being treated by corporations.

There's no alternative to big corporations if we strangle independent producers. I'm sure you know this. The rest of us have to understand it, too, though.

I haven't run many true one-shots. Not short, contained, focused, pre-written adventures. Usually I'm just cobbling things together (which is why I actually really love your books). But I've always wanted to play the We Be Goblins! series.

And it's going to be functionally all Canadians who are living near or below the poverty line. You can't afford enough carbon to pay more in tax than you get back in rebate if you're not rich enough to be irresponsible.

Huh. The mods over at c/rpg deleted the original post for "self promotion without community participation". Which seems like a great way to keep independent designers on corporate sites.

It's not like anyone is active there. Even the mods.

Well, it really depends on what one wants the fediverse to be. Should it be homogenized? Or heterogeneus? Having new servers auto-synchronize with the "top" (however one defines this) existing sites promotes homogeneity and the simulation of centralized social media. This seems to be what people here today want.

But if you're creating a simulacrum of centralized social media, you have to answer the question: Why wouldn't I just stay on an actually centralized service?

The fesiverse has the chance to be something new, if we just abandon the desire to make believe that it's like what we already have.

Hey Marcus! Great to see you over here! You should check out dice.camp if you haven't explored Mastodon yet.

For anyone interested, I have the print editions of all 3 QuarterShots books, and they are really great. I can't recommend them highly enough.

Check out Deficient Master's review for some better details. He sums things up better than I ever could.

And this is why the advertisers own the Internet now

I really think we need to stop looking for a single-service solution to everything.

Because the influencer market knows how to leverage microblogs to generate an income.

It's not recent. It's been a common misspelling for years. You're probably experiencing the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon.