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[–] illi@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

No bingo for me :(

Only two somewhat fit and don't allign with the free space.

[–] illi@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

This doesn't track. On one side you say this will directly affect incredibly small number of people but this incredibly small number of people also flood posts with their one vote? Wouldn't that be incredibly small number of votes per post?

[–] illi@piefed.social 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Ok, so in the announcement post they talk about mostly technical reasons for this. But from the linked post it does in fact sound like the aim is to throttle most active members because they have too much influence?

This is what rubbed me the wrong way and I just couldn't figure out why. We all have one upvote to give, some people just give it way more of them - so in comes the great equalizer in the form of the daily quota.

I hope you pardon my exagerated metaphor, but this is like limiting free speech for journalists, because they excercise the right of free speech way more than others.

It's "just" votes so I'm hesitant to call this censorship but... this does feel like a first step. Will there be daily post quotas too because some people post more than others?

[–] illi@piefed.social 67 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (40 children)

That's.... really weird.

On the surface the reasoning behind it makes sense, but there is also something about it (that I can't quite point out yet) that rubs me the wrong way.

[–] illi@piefed.social 66 points 2 weeks ago (69 children)

I think I might be out of the loop. What's happening...?

[–] illi@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago

Yoy described the current solution I believe.

The more hoops they put in place to jump through, the less people would consider going outside Google Play. And the more control Google has on the ecosystem.

[–] illi@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is why I don't have one. I like (some) tattoos, would love having one but I'm too afraid of possible health issues.

I just don't want one bad enough I guess.

[–] illi@piefed.social 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

My understanding is that Russia unfortunately still has plenty of oil - they are short on refineries to turn it into gasoline.

[–] illi@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago

I don't like the many layers that winter requires but at this point I could bite down a bullet on that. But I just don't handle the short days well.

I'm sure in a year or two that would be preferable as well.

[–] illi@piefed.social 2 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

That's called cake

[–] illi@piefed.social 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is definitely a scam, though I'm also confused by your dad traveling, usually that's other way around (and that's where "complications" happen where money is "needed").

Try to tell your dad what you expect coming - there will be complications and she will ask for money. Likely only a little at first, but the number will be rising.

Also, since they are impersonating (or acting like) a public figure, try searchig for the name online. Your dad is likely not the first (or last) that fell for this particular scam. Other people might be sharing stories with this person. There might be messages shared that people exchanged with the scammer - these will likely match those sent to your dad (the scammers usually have multiple people going at the same time). Use that - if your dad reads on the internet the exact message he got from his love interest, that hopefuly will ring some alarm bells. Though in the age of AI this might not be the case anymore, it's worth a shot.

Talk with your dad, ask how things are going and try to be vigilant for money being asked for. Try to poke holes in the stories but be gentle so your dad doesn't shut you out - he will likely not be that willing to listen. One way or another he will get hurt - you can just minimize the financial damage - or limit it to emotional only.

Good luck.

[–] illi@piefed.social 4 points 1 month ago

Especially if this is a CEO

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/guildwars2/p/2134144/idea-consolidate-the-gw-lemmy-communities

So - with GW3 on the horizon and the announcement of support for all 3 games I started to wonder about the lemmy communities.

With lemmy and piefed being not as big as the other place, I came to terms with the fact that highly specified communities don't really make sense as those are a niche within a niche and so get limited activity.

That said, I was always glad to see GW2 having a relatively active comm and I'm a little concerned about what GW3 might do with it. Also, since it's GW2 specific it's not a great place to hype up GW3. And while I see GW3 community exists, there is all in all 2 subs on there.

So I'd like to propose having a central, Guild Wars Franchise community where all 3 games would be discussed. This would make thr community more active, while also giving people idea what's happening in the other games.

Thoughts?

PS: I thought I'd also directly tag @meldrik@lemmy.wtf here, as a moderator of both GW1 and GW2 comms and also sole poster in GW3 comm (which makes me think you made it as well?) to also ask you directly what you think about the idea. I don't have any experience with this so maybe you will tell my why it's not a good idea?

 

So - with GW3 on the horizon and the announcement of support for all 3 games I started to wonder about the lemmy communities.

With lemmy and piefed being not as big as the other place, I came to terms with the fact that highly specified communities don't really make sense as those are a niche within a niche and so get limited activity.

That said, I was always glad to see GW2 having a relatively active comm and I'm a little concerned about what GW3 might do with it. Also, since it's GW2 specific it's not a great place to hype up GW3. And while I see GW3 community exists, there is all in all 2 subs on there.

So I'd like to propose having a central, Guild Wars Franchise community where all 3 games would be discussed. This would make thr community more active, while also giving people idea what's happening in the other games.

Thoughts?

PS: I thought I'd also directly tag @meldrik@lemmy.wtf here, as a moderator of both GW1 and GW2 comms and also sole poster in GW3 comm (which makes me think you made it as well?) to also ask you directly what you think about the idea. I don't have any experience with this so maybe you will tell my why it's not a good idea?

 

So I had to go to a notary office recently and wanted to find some near me on CoMaps... but it was very ineffective because it only found those that had "notary" in the name. There was no such category to be found.

And yet, OSMand has "notary office" category, and many more that don't show up in CoMaps (and I'm talking searching for categories, not just the list). Does CoMaps only feature some categories, but not all?

I tried also looking at Archeological site as another example and while there were PoIs categorized as such but can't select the category to see all PoIs from this category on map.

Am I missing something?

 

I guess another one bites the dust...

 

I do wonder how they will handle it as the W3 wrapped up so well. I was thinking we might be playing as Ciri already, but that could take away from W4. A completely new character perhaps?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/49965196

 

Anybody else having this issue? On my piefed.social account all seems to be working well but when I try switching to piefed.zip it won't load most of the time.

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