I tried to get into this game because I like Rimworld but damn is it so hard to learn. I couldn’t even get past the tutorial.
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I tried to get into this game because I like Rimworld but damn is it so hard to learn. I couldn’t even get past the tutorial.
Gacha games.
I play Genshin Impact and one gacha is enough for me.
Some (maybe most) of these accounts are likely using custom domain linking instead of a server.
No, I don’t think it removes duplicate images.
Right now: 0.3GB per user per month. This number is probably much higher for other instances because I don’t keep copies of federated images anymore and I’ve been compressing images early on.
This doesn’t include bandwidth and backups.
I managed to bring down ani.social’s monthly costs to only ~14 USD when converted (which includes everything except backups). With 165 monthly users, that comes to around ~0.08 USD with a lot of accomodation.
Lemmy is efficient in resources except in storage (database and images) which grows infinitely. Unless you’re purging older posts and images, it keeps growing (very slowly).
I made it a small badge so people wouldn’t have to feel obligated to donate. But yes, the entire instance has been community funded already thanks to generous one-time and monthly donations!
Oops, I misunderstood how it works. You can add subdomains as your handle.
I thought subdomains were people using PDS. So I don’t know anyone running a PDS. I might try running one just to see what it’s like and actually learn the network.
But here’s an example of @user.domain.com: https://bsky.app/profile/tomoshika.voms.net
I don’t think they’re using a PDS though. In fact, it’s really hard to tell who’s using a PDS or not. I’m not sure what the effect of this is in community-building and I wonder if control over the network is really decentralized. This is really… confusing.
Anyway, the PDS is a lot more complicated than I thought: https://docs.bsky.app/docs/category/advanced-guides
The users with PDS use something like @user.domain.com. Users with just @domain.com are under Bluesky IIRC.
How was the concept first explained to you, or when did it click?
I don’t remember. We had classes throughout elementary school that taught us how to use computers. I learned how to read the news and use email from my mom. I learned how to play games like Silkroad and StarCraft from my dad. I don’t remember who taught me how to watch videos on YouTube. It kind of felt natural I guess.
Do you understand how insane it is to have the aggregate of all human knowledge — the only comparable thing once being a physical library or university — one search away? That it’s absolutely insane you can engage in a real-time conversation with someone on the opposite side of the world? That you can find niche communities in an instant?
No, not really. I never thougt about it that way until I was much older.
Were your parents super strict about internet usage? How quickly did you find workarounds?
Very strict. I could only use the internet if it was for school work during the week days. But during the weekends, I was free to use it however I wanted.
There were no workarounds until high school when I was free to play games and surf the web as much as I wanted any day of the week.
People have suggested making a portal/quiz for instance signups, but that adds to the barrier. There are also problems like how in-depth and inclusive it should be. It reminds me of Linux distro pickers that often suggest weird niche distros.
There are already big/default instances in the Fediverse though but there are people who actively discourage this. Maybe Mastodon just had a bad start and Bluesky learned from that. I wonder if Bluesky’s PDS will be like Fediverse instances though. Many Fediverse instances are built around shared interests but the PDS just looks like a glorified handle.
Personally, I think the Fediverse discourse should shift to designing social media with decentralization in mind rather than mimicking mainstream social media with a “decentralized twist”. I don’t think the Fediverse will ever be as big as Twitter, but it doesn’t have to be. It just needs to be sustainable enough to keep new conversations going.
Doesn’t answer the question but maybe it’s worth sharing anyway.
I’m gonna wait for the platinum ultimate mega collector’s anthology edition at a 90% discount after 7 years.
Maybe my Gmail account. I made it to play Club Penguin. I still use it when signing up for things.
I have some old forum accounts but I don’t use them anymore. I also had a Minecraft account from before the Mojang and Microsoft migrations. That’s gone now. :(
My League of Legends and Steam accounts are old too.
I use vmware and it’s an okay experience for me.
Yeah but I think Linux VM is more convenient for me as I don’t have to switch back and forth between operating systems. I can have both operating systems in front of me at once.
I can keep the VM running while playing games with my friends on the Windows host.
I kind of like having Linux on a VM in Windows. I only use Linux for things like web browsing or writing papers which a VM can do. For gaming, I prefer Windows to avoid any problems I might encounter (like anticheats).
This gives me a near-ideal set up with access to both Linux and Windows. I just wish my Linux VM can do 120+hz and GPU passthrough.
It’s time to learn Dwarf Fortress.
Win/Super key
I find that pretty safe.
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