Man, you should call these community announcements beehaw yeehaws. I think that'd be neat and funny.

Yeah, I think reddit is going to die (if only due to the process of enshittification and the consequences of going public) but the idea of a mass exodus is a bit of a dream. Anyone who has had a conversation going on in one channel, and then have a mod tell them to move it to a more appropriate channel should know this. The conversation doesn't move, it just stops 9/10 times.

But we shouldn't be preoccupied with reddit as a community. Give what you can to Lemmy and enjoy it for what it is, not wishing it to be reddit.

I think the issue with that is that dog whistles from far right extremists is constantly changing. And to outline an exact rule of what defines hate speech invites people to find loop holes in the rule.

This is just something that you have to trust the community on. And I can understand that sounds way too risky and vague.

I think with things like this, err on the side of caution, be excellent to one another, and keep politics to what you can do rather than what you should do. In my time, the "should do" arguments is where I found most of the division in communities that aught to get along come from. Just my own thoughts though.

Still, if any mods could give their word on the matter, that'd be(e) fantastic.

Same. Replacing doom scrolling on Reddit with posting on beehaw.

I think the other hand is that beehaw itself is more like a general "home" server. There will be instances with more niche interests that you can subscribe and interact with. And beehaw seems to be more about building a community in the broader sense. But idk, I'm not the big yeehaw of beehaw.

Reminding myself that the person posting the worst opinions I've seen in my life is likely a 14 year-old with unrestricted access to the internet from birth is the only thing keeping me sane.

Honestly, this might be a bit of a hot take coming in. But I don't think the lengthy tutorial is the actual issue when it comes to modern Pokemon games. Plenty of games have very slow openings, monster hunter is the first that comes to mind.

I think the issue is that the game doesn't actually have any depth behind the initial tutorial. Once you know how to battle, catch, and level up, what more is there? Barring competitive play, the basic mechanics are the entire game.

Legends was a breath of fresh air, because you did have to explore and learn about the world and Pokemon in order to succeed. Even if it was incredibly minimal.

If anyone is still reading this, my recommendation for a game that scratches the deep mechanical and monster collecting itch would be Monster Sanctuary. The story is thin on the ground, and the designs themselves can lean on the simpler side. But my god, I haven't seen an equal when it comes to team building or strategy. Genuinely fantastic.

To add onto your point. One thing that we'll have to watch out for is that toxic clout culture built up on other websites coming here.

It's been something I've been thinking about in the context of all this. People aren't coming from the void. They'll have their own internet lingo and culture that they'll bring with them to any site they go to. And while the design of a website can mitigate some of the worst parts of a culture, it can't outright remove it.

Without near constant vigilance (like the ask a historian subreddit) most communities will end up dying off. And even then you're at the whims of the platform.

I realise my point now is hardly even connected to yours, haha. Apologies.

Hell, even if people move back to reddit, I've made the choice to stay on Lemmy, and give a small community everything I've got.

Modded dwarf fortress. I've always been a bit of a baby, so I mod out the invasions and aquifers. It's almost like watching ants work once it all gets going.

Honestly yeah, that's a much more accurate and eloquent way of describing how I felt. Thank you.

I suppose it's just... Nice to see actual conversation. If someone is trying to be funny, they're actually trying, not pulling on some dead horse one liner.

I feel like that has meaning. Genuine meaning. It's something I didn't feel with the endless barrage of Reddit.

Everyone shits on the guy, but hey, he's living the dream of making a billionaire go broke while also destroying one of the hell pits on the internet.

Totally agree. Notifications on lemmy genuinely excite me. On Reddit, more than half the time it was an empty comment that added nothing to the conversation. Or admin mail.

Like, even just as I scroll down this thread, everyone is writing full and proper responses. Not just one liners as far as the eye can see. It's refreshing and exciting. How the internet aught to be.

Fantastic essay. Slightly tangential, but honestly so many new constructions with housing are just so wasteful. Luxury apartments designed to stay empty while some investor on the other side of the country owns it and waits to sell to the next sucker in line. Office buildings with extravagant and wasteful lobbies, serving no purpose other than the vanity of the developers.

Of course, we need higher density. The world can't be split into the extravagance and waste of skyscrapers and the drudgery and repetition of the suburb sprawl.

As I type this, I'm sitting in the empty lobby of an office building. A giant corporate sculpture is hanging above the concierge desk. The empty space and high ceiling could easily fit dozens of apartments. Not even thinking about the resources spent

It's just... A lot, when you start looking at offices and skyscrapers through this lens.

For whatever reason I could never get my brain to work with google docs or computer writing. When I was younger, I used a type writer, and it was lovely. These days I find that I'm best with pen and paper. Though that's only for the draft part. Once I'm secure in what I got, I'm typing it up.

I'm with you on Persona 5. My favourite in the series is Persona 2. Plays like complete ass but some of the best writing I've seen in a videogame. So it balances out. Then Persona 3 came out and they changed direction with the games, and... Well, I guess it makes more money and being told you're the best is a lot more fun than the weirdness of early persona.

Weirdly enough, I could never get into Stardew Valley. Whenever I play it, the path to complete optimisation is just so annoyingly clear. Something ALWAYS needs to be done to be optimal. So I always feel like I'm not doing it right or I'm falling behind. My personality just does not work with Stardew Valley even if I really truly want it to.

A beanie for this one! I've been bullied (I don't really mind) into 3 seperate projects for my coworkers. Two beanies and a scarf for the eternally freezing executive chef. And I'll try making a write up!! The depth you can go into with just drafting ALONE is fantastically interesting. And I don't feel as bad spending $20 on fibre when I know it'd cost twice as much as yarn, hehe.

But seriously, this week I'll work on a write up before I go on an endless rant. See if I can't bring some wooly madness with me, heh. Look forward to some more experimental yarns from me! 🤗

I was only on forums as a little kid myself. Trust me, I'm Very Young, I was just good with computers young. But the notifications, small scale, it gave me a little tickle that I hadn't felt since those silly days of logging onto Pokemon forums as a kid.

I've never been super active on Reddit myself. Hell, I've probably written more comments on here in the past day or two than I did over a few years on Reddit. So I can't accurately describe the culture change to you. I'm sure there's plenty of older folk who would be able to tell you though.

But it's something I haven't felt for a while, and something I had forgotten myself. Where social media is... An active choice? On Reddit, it was easy to be entirely passive. Just scroll and scroll. And really, it wasn't even making me happy. It was just engagement for the sake of being engaged. But if I'm on a smaller forum I love talking with people! Sharing these experiences. Also, yay for having forum tools again!! I missed being able to post pictures in comments.

Just like Twitter banning any mention of mastodon. They can't rely on keeping the product, users, on the site with a good website. So they just prolong the inevitable and do whatever they can to stop people from leaving. Enshittification, my beloathed.

BWUAHAHAHAH I love this! You understood the assignment in and out. I almost hope to see Bob and Alice as reoccuring characters if I keep this up. I want to see more awful non-arguments and Woman Emotions