LambentMote

Have you played The Wolf Among Us? It's a Telltale adventure game, so in terms of gameplay it's more like an interactive graphic novel, but the story is great, and the detective work and interrogations are really immersive.

Thanks for a very enjoyable read. I'm a user-experience designer for web software and I'm absolutely baffled by modern product design. Fuck capacitive buttons and unnecessary screens.

Good design is problem solving. That means first it has to work, then it can be elegant and beautiful. Function before form.

I have a new stove that I already resent to heck after less than 3 months. I yell at it impotently multiple times a week. It's a glass induction cook top with capacitive buttons on the top. To turn it on you have to press the power button, then the icon for the burner you want, then tap or mash a line with + and - icons multiple times to set the power. All that to replace turning a single knob on my old gas burner. The icons for the different heating elements have digital clock type displays to the left of them that light up with -- if the thing is on, but TO the right of the last icon is another identical display so new users can't tell which display is for which icon (turns out the last one is for the timer but it lights up and looks exactly the same as the others when the timer isn't active and is spaced exactly the same distance from the last icon as the other displays). If you rest anything metal near the buttons it beeps incessantly. If it gets the slightest moisture on it it switches itself off and then beeps incessantly. I'm a patent person but whoever designed that thing deserves to spent the rest of their life in a void with only their own creations and a horseshoe crab for company.

Yep Lemmy is just one platform for hosting and participating in these style of communities within the fediverse. Instances running Kbin (and even Mastodon to an extent) can post, interact, and host communities, and there will be more to come. It's not so much about what platform you're using because the content is platform agnostic.

Pretty much except you should stop seeing any new content or posts from the defederated community. Old threads will still exist and effectively be unmoderated, but the comments there will only exist on your server. Any federated server will see the 'true' thread from the original instance.

I was thinking the same thing. Should I just spin up my own private instance so I can federate as I please? I prefer Kbin's interface and like the idea of microblog support to give access to the wider mastodon community but don't want to jump into kbin.social as, while it's currently running well it has no clear code of conduct and is very much a one-man show which makes it vulnerable technically, and increases the possibility of being defederated for similar reasons to lemmy.world. That all felt a bit hard but now that I've got the hang of things it took me 15 mins to transfer all of my subscriptions to a new account and I feel relatively safe in the small and well-managed instance from my home country, while still having access to everywhere I want to go.

While it would be nice to be able to amalgamate some communities, I think a lot of the issue stems from redditors jumping into a server and immediately trying to recreate all of their favorite subs before understanding federation and searching to see if similar subs exist elsewhere (or considering if there are enough users to justify the existence of their niche sub when all of the communities are still relatively small and their content might fit in general communities that would benefit from more users.)

This is especially exacerbated because Kbin had a huge surge in growth while federation wasn't working and so it's users were relatively isolated from the established communities.

I imagine over time people will mostly conglomerate to the more active boards across different instances.

You're seeing a cached version of the post from before defederation. Those comments only exist on your instance and the post will drop off your feed soon enough.

We're all 'being punished' by climate change and ecosystem collapse and it's gonna get worse before (if) it gets better. 'Whataboutism' and pointing fingers gets us nowhere.

Unfortunately the worst effects will absolutely hit the poorest and those least responsible for causing the problem first and hardest. It's inherently unjust, but EVERYONE needs to be fully on board, not just 'making efforts' to curb emissions. Sacrifices will be made. We have to choose now which ones to make, or those choices will be made for us by the environment.

A small social democracy like NZ is well positioned to become a world leader/model for how change can be implemented. Retooling our economy away from primary industries is an opportunity.

I'd advise you post in more general communities for now. Lemmy is very new. As far as I've found this is the largest guitar community and the vast majority of posts get no comments. Best to build up this community where there are at least some people already than posting into an empty room.

I respect your decision, and the transparency behind your thought processes. Beehaw’s stated values, and the culture that you have grown and maintained were what led me to choose it initially. I’ve enjoyed reading and interacting with the people and content here, and the extra thought and effort that goes into typical posts compared to other similar servers.

I hope you’re able to find people you can trust to share the administrative burden, that improved moderation tools are not far off, and that this decision will be earnestly reconsidered in the coming days/weeks as growth from the Reddit Exodus stabilizes.

I believe the Fedverse as a whole will be a poorer place for being defederated from Beehaw.

That said, based on this decision I’ve decided to migrate my primary account to a regional instance. I want to continue to participate in and interact with the Beehaw community, but I’d also like the freedom to explore the wider fediverse and find diverse communities for my niche interests and hobbies. I just hope bad actors from my, and other instances don’t cause further defederation and fragmentation.

Thanks for letting me know! Silly lemmy, I've seen this happen a few times where comments end up in the wrong place.