Kichae

Like you I’m confused at the continual cries of racism on Mastadon.

I, uh, said I'm not confused by the cries of racism. I'm confused by the constant claims of "I don't see any, therefore it must not exist".

It's like no one gives a shit, because it doesn't affect them personally. Which, you know, makes everyone the kind of people that those experiencing harassment don't want to be around anyway.

Yeah. It's pretty telling that my entire time on Mastodon has been punctuated by black users complaining about how much racism they're exposed to on the network, and everyone else going "I don't see any racism!"

Like, ok, maybe you don't. I don't. I'm as white as snow, and don't post about my experiences as a racialized person (not being one, and all). But it's pretty clear, just from seeing the same exchange over and over again, that racialized people are experiencing something I'm not, and them expressing as much has Defenders of the Faith circling wagons every time it comes up.

Mastodon being a little more complicated than Twitter wouldn't have been a major blocker to communities coming over. "Hey, join this site", rather than "join Mastodon!" is all you need. But no one's going to be telling black folks, or any other community, to come on over if the social atmosphere is at least as toxic as where they're coming from.

Now with another alternative, Mastodon also needs to be better than "not being Twitter". And the people who are there already seem to have zero interest in doing that.

It really wouldn't be a Lemmy client with a Facebook-like personal profile, pages, and more. You'd need your own backend, and then you've got something all its own.

I know you're worried about Friendica's ability to scale, but how big are you expecting to scale your site?

The political divesity is less of an issue than the political ferver. Most people don't want to talk aboit politics. They want to avoid political discussions, and get upset when people do things as basic as pointing out that politics exists in their bubble.

The fediverse turns them off because it's loaded with politically aware and stubbornly vocal people, not because there aren't enough people playing apologetics for the ruling class

The fediverse really is best viewed as a local-first space. Everything just works better if your primary focus is on the people or communities on your local instance. But people keep trying to think of it as primarily about the space in between, because that's what's novel.

But most people do not give a shit about that novelty, and we "market" it terribly.

"Lemmy" doesn't exist like Reddit does. It's not a place people can go to talk about shit. It's a website engine. It exists like WordPress does. One of its features just happens to be "can pull content from other websites".

If we want this space to grow, we need to focus on building community websites that stand on their own. Then we can market it as "hey, you love it here on MyInterest.social, but did you know you can also talk to people from SomethingElse.social? Pretty cool, huh??!?" Nobody seems to want to do that, though. That means we're totally at the mercy of places like Twitter and Reddit, waiting for them to fuck up badly again and hoping more people just kind of land here, in some cheap and uncanny knockoff of where they really wanted to be.

Well, you see, if you criticize a trans person's politics, that's transphobia. Doesn't matter if their politics are orthogonal to their transness, and it doesn't matter if you, yourself, are trans.

Just look at Israel to see how this works.

This is still validating the profit incentive of private health insurance.

If the doctor prescribes unnecessary care, it should be none of these peoples' business, because they shouldn't be allowed any stake in the decision whatsoever.

I don't think that actually helps, because it's all vibes. 51 looks prime, because of no reason at all, and absolutely nothing looks like it should be divisible by 17, again, because raisins.

Knowing why it's true doesn't make it look right.

Divine magic is drawn from the gods, while creating false life is a perversion of the gods' natural order. It's very explicitly anti-divine. Meanwhile, Occult magic is about Fucking Around and hoping to not Find Out. Bending or breaking the divine order is exactly what it's there for.

Tech companies and their workers really have developed some insane god complexes lately.

You're milking the public for shareholders. You are not important.

The psychic provides the different casting mechanics. If you run Psychic + Witch Archetype, you kind of mash together the mechanics and the theme.

The 5e Warlock is just much, much too 5e at this point. Paizo can't out 5e the Warlock, and as played most Warlock builds will not work in PF2. Introducing an equivalent class at this point probably only invites negative comparisons.

I'm not really interested in either of them. They're both outside my niche. But if I were going to try one of them, it would probably be the Necromancer. I really don't need dead bodies to move -- I'll just spawn a new one where I want it to be -- and I think the idea of undead just crawling out of the ground to get in the way of things is a more interesting idea than "boatload of minions". I know it's not the fantasy that people may have, and maybe in practice it won't be as interesting , but right now my curiosity is piqued, and my imagination can work with this.

I also think it makes more sense from a ludonarrative point of view. PF2's zombies still move pretty quickly, and can have a somewhat explosive action economy (shamble, shamble, multiple strikes, shamble, shamble). Thralls, instead, are moving and reacting more slowly than once every 6 seconds. It's very easy to forget that a round is only 6 seconds when actually playing, but the "army of undead" that appears in the mind's eye is often moving around at less than a foot per second, so they kind of fall beneath the threshold for... well, for play.