Landrin201

The potential for accounts to vanish if the instance they started on is, to me, the single biggest hurdle that Lemmy will face with casual users. I think that the devs need to really consider figuring out a way to make user logins global.

I said this the other day, but I think it may, unironically, be one of the first times I've ever seen a genuine use for a blockchain, but I have no idea how to implement it.

The reason that the big social media companies came to exist is precisely because people didn't like having to have a dozen accounts for all their different communities. Lemmy fixes that problem through federation, which is great, but introduces a new problem of "your account could just disappear, making all your contributions vanish." I know that was technically a problem before big social media companies appeared and everyone was using forums, but it's a big plus of the current social media giants- you don't have to worry too much about the company failing so completely that the website gets shut down, which is the only way you'd lose your account, any time soon. People are used to that stability, and will not be happy if they join an instance in the fediverse only to have the rug yanked out from under them.

If we want this to be a true alternative to big social media, it needs that stability.

Not everybody who has questions is “just asking questions”, if you catch my drift.

I agree with that statement, context is everything.

I think that in the context of someone starting out going "it's unfair for men to compete in women's sports," the person is "just asking questions." That context poisons the well for questions.

But if someone comes in and makes a thread like "I don't understand how hormone therapy works, can someone please explain it?" that, to me, is a good faith question and 100% should not be bannable.

I'm amazed that r/programming is still private seeing as spez is literally one of the mods there

Transphobes always make the same tired arguments about "biological differences between men and women" and then scream and run away when you bring up actual science, because they don't care about the science. They care about being bigots, and using science to make their bigotry look legitimate.

the presence of transgender athletes in competitions

I disagree, that isn't a "polite disagreement" and is, absolutely, "just transphobes attacking people trying to live their own life" as you put it. Every time that "Argument" happens it's openly done in biologically unfounded ways by people who simply don't understand how our bodies actually work- yet those arguments get mass upvoted by people who also don't understand how biology actually works and who believe that trans athletes get some insane, unfair advantage.

If you want to pass laws to restrict trans people from sports, then you want to pass laws to discriminate against trans people. That's not really up for debate IMO, it's a straight up fact; it's what you're doing when you advocate for laws that are not founded in science, that are specifically targeting a tiny minority for the chance that one of that tiny minority might beat cis athletes in an "unfair" way, you're advocating for bigoted laws.

Such arguments are also inevietably filled with people misgendering trans people, deliberately calling trans women "men" and hiding behind the "I'm talking about biology" argument to do so.

Replace the word "trans" with "black" and you'll find that people are making literally identical arguments to those against desegregating professional sports leagues 80 years ago. Literally word for word.

It's been ignored so hard that all the people ignoring are crashing lemmy.ml

Maybe, but that will galvanize the members of those community even more.

Either way, be prepared for lots of new Lemmites (like me!)

I've seen a bunch of people saying similar things as the OP in multiple communities; this is the first time I've seen a good answer on what's happening. Hopefully this gets some focus, it's definitely confusing some people.

Where did you find this data? I'd like to be able to check it periodically

I'm extremely skeptical. What they showed today is ENORMOUSLY ambitious- it looks like they are aiming for an Elite Dangerous or Star Citizen kind of experience, and both of those games have been actively worked on for over a decade now and don't have all of these features.

The only other game I can think to compare this to is No Mans Sky- which completely failed to deliver most of what it promised on day one- but has implemented everything and then some in the years since.

Like, what they are saying is VERY cool, but of the three games that I can think to compare it to, one of them is still deep in development (and the story mode has never materialized, depsite years of RSI saying it's right around the corner), one was a complete disaster on launch, and one of them has been consistently good but still isn't feature-complete with everything they want. Elite Dangerous only added an on-the-ground FPS mode in 2021, and the general consensus in it is that it was quite lackluster.

This game is promising to have good on-the-ground FPS/TPS gameplay, good ship-to-ship combat, multiple ways to engage with the game's economy which are viable (like trading, being a mercenary, piracy, mining), an extreme level of ship customization, and presumeably multiple ship types that work best for each of the "professions" like trading and fighting. And also a story. And 1000 procedurally generated, planet-sized planets.

That is as much if not more than what Star Citizen promised, and Star Citizen still doesn't have half of the features. It's WAY more than No Man's Sky promised, and we all know how that turned out- even with what NMS now has in the game, this is more ambitious by a lot because of the graphics they are promising, the customization of ships, and the physics model (NMS is newtonian, but it doesn't really play that way).

And it's bethesda- they're known for making good games, but they have never made anything even remotely near this ambitious before. Their games are renowned for being buggy messes on release. And they want to release this on fucking consoles, which makes it even more difficult.

OH MAN THE ROAD TOOLS THEY SHOWED LOOK AMAZING

They clearly took to heart which mods the community were using the most. Curious to see what other features they add to distinguish the game- I hope they have all the features from the first game/expansions in it to start and it isn't just the old base game pre-expansions with better road tools

Subreddit drama.