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So, they're both out to fuck everyone, and just playing for different teams?

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So yeah, you're just trolling a community and whining that they took out the trash, and you know it.

So, what we mean by "Lemmy", then, is the circle of 5 - 10 largest, unfocused "general interest" Lemmy-based sites?

Because front page of startrek.website and ttrpg.network look quite a bit different. The All page of ttrpg.network is meaningfully, though not radically, different from the All pages on those sites. And you've already mentioned beehaw, which probably should be seen as a better model for how to operate a Lemmy-based website. leminal.space also has a fairly long block list, and its All page is also meaningfully different and less grating than seen on the Big 5.

It looks different depending on which site you're using. Unless you restrict yourself to the sites that do everything the same as one another.

An instance block in your user settings just filters out all of the communities from thst instance. So, if you're worried about not seeing comments from users on those sites, don't be.

That's markets in action. Housing being a market means that it responds to whoever is feeding money into it, and those tend to be people who want to get that money (and more) back out of the market again, not those who are interested in solving things like "housing problems".

For people that play D&D and think “I wish this had more complicated rules…”

2e generally has rules that are on par with 5e, or even simpler in many cases, just written in a way that makes them sound like a software development reference text. The number of times I've been "Ohhhh, they mean X! Why didn't they just say so?!?!?"

But that's just it, "Lemmy's" front page isn't like that. There's no "Lemmy" front page. There's a thousand different ones.

Reddit is a website. Lemmy is a potentially unlimited, constantly changing, number of websites. They're not directly comparable.

People find the "which 'Gaming' community is the real one?" issue very frustrating, because they currently have the illusion that they have access to everything all in one place. The idea that you can't have a discussion with a million other people is meaningless to them, totally crushed under the weight of FOMO.

They look at Reddit, and they look at Lemmy, and they see that they're different, but don't really care why. They see that different (not more, just different) effort is required to navigate the space. They don't care that they just need a different mental model to understand the space -- they don't want one. And the design language of the space communicates to them that they don't need one.

I'm not going to get up on my soapbox and rant and rave about this today -- I'm too tired, and it's too busy of a week -- but this is what I mean when I keep saying we can't win against centralized social media by aping the UI. "Lemmy" just isn't a Reddit replacement in the same way that another centralized service is. A Lemmy-based website, sure. But not the network of them.

KOTT's frames most of his videos as introductions to the game. He's doing "Pathfinder 2e for Dummies for YouTube". He keeps reinforcing the idea that spells just happen because it's the kind of distinction that someone who's never touched a TTRPG before might need made for them.

He does it over and over again because he doesn't assume anyone has watched any of his previous videos.

The timer also discourages kinds of interactions or engagement with other players that may actually be welcomed, entertaining, and appreciated. It also takes a significant amount of the responsibility of being a referee off the GM's shoulders - you know, that thing that they're actually charged with doing - and turns it over to a clock that they can just use as a cudgle.

It's the classic toxic nerd shit of turning something that should be a social encounter into a souless mechanical system.

Bannon is an anger salesmen. Anger salesmen don't sell you somene else's anger, though -- they can't. Instead, they package up your own anger, and sell it back to you.

Bannon sees the the reaction people are habing to CEOs right now, slapping a big ol' bow on it, and selling it back to people.

The post office is antiquated and better off privarized. That's why, during the strike, businesses whined about the added expense of having to use private couriers, and why the government had forced employees back to work!

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