Yeah it wouldn’t bother me so much if any of it was actually useful, but they all just read like a lazy student padding out the page count on a college paper
I searched for a comparison between two USB flash drive brands and the top result waffled for multiple paragraphs about the history and definition of “flash memory” before finally recommending: “just get whichever one has the best performance in your price range”. Gee, thanks AI.
It’s tough because I almost feel like I need a whitelist at this point. 90% of the first page of Google results usually read like AI-generated fluff that doesn’t actually even answer my question. There are a handful of websites I trust now to give me real information and not just clickbait SEO nonsense.
I’m at the point where I add “reddit” to the end of every search just to try and find something that was written by a real person. Maybe someday I can start adding “lemmy” instead.
Yeah it’s not that I think they’re above this kind of petty bullshit, but I don’t get why they’d go “fuck this guy in particular”.
That said, even if the guy admitted to running the world’s biggest pirate ring, screw them anyway
There was also a bug where some communities would have @instancename even on their home instance, like lemmy.world/c/asklemmy@lemmy.world. It would continue to work on the home instance but break federation with other instances. I don’t know if it’s still happening on the latest update.
I feel like a bit of a hypocrite, because I’ll complain about almost every aspect of this game until I’m blue in the face, but I still put like 200+ hours into it. Same for Skyrim actually.
On my phone I’ve put the Jerboa icon where the Rif icon used to be and sure enough I now open Lemmy 100 times a day out of pure habit
I vaguely remember being disappointed by 1 but liking 2 well enough.
I’m several hours into Legion now and the writing hasn’t gotten any better, but I found a human statue street performer to recruit to my elite hacker squad so that’s cool.
I played one of the Moraff games (I think Dungeons of the Unforgiven) and remember it being like an acid trip. In retrospect I probably didn’t have the colors set up right.
Against my better judgement I grabbed that Watch Dogs game since it’s 85% off. I find the “humor” distressingly bad (LOL the computer said “fuck!” lmao) and for some reason the voice-acting is really grating on my nerves. But it’s fun to drive around causing chaos, and collecting weirdo hacker recruits like Pokemon.
I also grabbed Dex but I only played a few minutes to test it out. Bonus points for having a native linux port though.
rip rif
This seems like a smart way to do it. If mods could make it an automatic one-click thing, and then let users combine those into a single merged feed, it would be a nice way to have a single cohesive community across multiple instances while still enjoying the benefits of federation.
God the recommendations based on my shelf are completely worthless. I gave the Fellowship of the Ring five stars and now all my recs are totally clogged up with art books and behind-the-scenes stuff about the movies. Oh yeah, please keep showing me audiobook versions of shit I already read!
No worries! After they’re done working out some of the major bugs, I’m really hoping they eventually roll some of this search functionality into the site itself.
Which ones have you tried?
I don’t know if it has everything, but !emulation@lemmy.ml shows up when I search “emulation” on https://lemmyverse.net
I hate to be the one to go against the grain here, but yeah I would. I mean, I’d try to continue posting here as much as possible, but there are at least a few communities that I’d probably fall back to Reddit for. Reddit’s popularity means there’s active discussion on some surprisingly niche topics. Like, there’s an active Sumo wrestling sub. There isn’t a community here for that, and even if I made one (which I don’t want to do because I don’t want to moderate) it would just be me screaming into the void.
And I don’t think that’s going to be a concern anyway. There’s no sign they’re going to backtrack on anything, in fact they just keep doubling down.
I use SDF and I’m happy with it but his second point is that the instance should defederate/not tolerate Nazis, which SDF doesn’t fit the bill