@regineheidorn @fediverse Yeah, people I know boosted her messages—which implies they may have given her money. The thing is, that grifter’s success is going to attract other grifters if this problem isn’t addressed.

@Feathercrown@lemmy.world No, this account is specifically from Akkoma. I have also submitted posts from my Pixelfed account.

I can submit a post to Lemmy by mentioning the community handle in my post. Such is the magic of the Fediverse.

@LibertyForward1 @fediverse Not only can you follow, you can post to a Lemmy community from Mastodon by mentioning the Lemmy community. In fact, you just mentioned a Lemmy community, so your using Lemmy right now—but from you’re perspective, it looks like Mastodon.

@Coolmccool@mastodon.au @fediverse@lemmy.world The best way to explain #Pixelfed is that it’s an Instagram-like front-end for the Fediverse. But practically speaking, it’s Mastodon if pictures were a requirement on Mastodon. You interact with a Pixelfed account from Mastodon in much the same way you interact with another Mastodon account, or how you’re interacting with my Akkoma account right now. It really is just like email.

Regarding group topics, the best way to find them is to do a search on a place like lemmy.world or lemmy.ca. For example, uiux@programming.dev is one. And you can find the URL here:

https://programming.dev/c/uiux

@ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world With time, that stuff will be ironed out. Group support is in Mastodon’s road map. Now Mastodon develops very slowly, so take that with a grain of salt. But the point is that groups are coming to Mastodon… eventually.

@holdenweb @videogames I’ve been playing shooters all my life, yet I’m anti-gun. So what does that tell you?

@AndyHat@anti-social.online @videogames@piefed.social The devs are fully aware of Bubsy's reputation. 😆

@shovemedia @videogames I didn’t leave anything out. I kept the list to 10. Centipede is good but I don’t think it was more impactful than anything on this list.

@holdenweb@freeradical.zone @videogames@piefed.social Decades of research say the same thing: video games do not cause gun violence. The APA itself states there’s no causal link:

https://www.apa.org/...

What does drive gun violence? Access to guns. A landmark meta-analysis shows firearm availability doubles the risk of homicide:

https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M13-1301

So worry less about pixelated weapons. The danger isn’t on a screen—it’s in the real-world guns we’ve chosen to surround ourselves with.

@unknown1234_5@kbin.earth @pcgaming@lemmy.ca @fediverse@lemmy.world Already on the road map.

@Charger8232@lemmy.ml I run my own server for a simple reason: it means owning my social media presence.

I own my content, my audience, and who I federate with.

@holdenweb@freeradical.zone @videogames@piefed.social When I play FPS games, I don’t think “I want to murder someone.” I think “I’m playing something creative and meaningful.”

That isn’t unique to me. Millions of people play shooters every day without it ever translating into real-world violence. If games were truly the cause, we’d see epidemic levels of violence everywhere they’re popular—yet countries with high gaming rates often have lower gun violence than the U.S.

It’s also no different than playing Clue, where you literally act out a murder mystery. Further, FPS games are less grisly than slasher movies like Saw or Texas Chainsaw Massacre, both of which portray violence with far more graphic realism.

And even if we wanted to, we can’t sit around monitoring everyone’s psychology to see who’s playing what or feeling what. That’s neither realistic nor effective.

What we can do is focus on what the evidence actually shows drives gun violence: easy access to real firearms. Research is consistent and unambiguous—gun availability correlates directly with gun deaths.

So pixelated guns? They’re a scapegoat. Actual guns are the problem.

@markmetz @recordpics Actually, his wife. They’ve been married for 23 years.

@corbden@defcon.social @recordpics@piefed.social @phaedral@beige.party It was like that when I bought it.

@Donebrach I’m truly touched. My words deeply moved you. 🥲

@RichardSiggs@aus.social @lumoura@piefed.social Nope. This picture was taken on March 30, 2010:

https://www.flickr.com/...

@Feathercrown Actually, you can do that with any Fediverse service, not just Mastodon.

@m3t00 @fediverse Give me more context and what you specifically mean.

@msh@coales.co @fediversenews@piefed.social Nope, everyone should be using ActivityPub-enabled services, so therefore the #SocialWeb will never be "fixed" until it becomes as ubiquitous as phones.

@rimu Sorry to bother you, but what’s the best iOS client for Piefed?