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The NVIDIA thing has been answered elsewhere in the thread, so I’ll answer the other one: … It depends, but usually there’s a minor performance hit. Other times it works just as well, and there are some edge cases where it actually works better.

There’s also the issue of compatibility: in general, if anti-cheat software is involved, expect to have problems. This website is a database for Steam games with reports from users about what works, what doesn’t work, and what can be done to fix or at least mitigate what doesn’t work. You can sync your Steam library to it to see how well the games you have are supported at a glance.

Which makes the parallel fit even better since in both cases the characters of the opposite gender show up in the lore rather than the actual gameplay.

Catbox claims to keep files forever. I find this claim dubious, what’s the catch?

Also, the communities that would be providing the interesting stuff in the first place are still in the process of getting settled in.

This might just be me, but arbitrary CAPSLOCK on words and Title Case on threads that aren’t a link to a news article are clickbait patterns that I’d prefer to not see on kbin.

As for the object of the thread itself… I am thoroughly unsurprised. I have never seen IranianGenius involved in any positive manner with /r/tumblr whereas TayTay was singlehandedly responsible for making /r/tumblr into slightly less of a garbage heap. Removing the one mod that was actually improving things is perfectly in line with Reddit’s recent behavior.

So, is that an order to abandon ship?

As far as kbin is concerned, it will appear under the “boosted” category. Some platforms handle this differently. To take a random user as an example, this fosstodon user has a bunch of posts which will show up separately from their boosts when viewed from kbin. But looking at their profile from Fosstodon itself, you will see posts and boosts mixed together as is the norm on Mastodon.

This is a natural result of most of the influx of new users being from Reddit as they’re still keeping an eye on it to see how the situation evolves. I expect it to continue happening until at the very least a week after the beginning of July, which I expect will also be a second migration wave since that’s when the third party apps will stop working.

It’ll settle down eventually. In the meantime, users seem to have been doing a good enough job of keeping those threads on the communities/magazines dedicated to talking about Reddit and/or the relevant migration, so it’s probably best to unsubscribe from/block them if you are sick of seeing those in your feed.

On that note, upvotes and downvotes upvote matter even less here (“here” meaning kbin) as the factor dictating comment order in the “hot” ranking is boosting (think retweet equivalent), not the vote count.

Not sure how that goes on Lemmy though.

He’s just trolling us and speedrunning the PR meltdown category at this point, isn’t he?

This seems to be a no strings attached good deal on xQc’s side. However…

As a start-up, Kick is prepared to operate at a loss

Aaand the platform is doomed. Focusing on growth over viability is whats makes you a prime enshitification target.

I can understand the value of making your community a more tight-knit one with a proactive stance on moderation, that’s how Tildes operate and they’re doing fine. The thing is I’m not sure I understand why, given this goal, Beehaw is part of the Fediverse in the first place, where there isn’t much preventing someone from an outside group coming in. This sounds like a case where a centralized instance makes more sense. Maybe they’re trying to see if such a community can exist on the Fediverse, in which case fair enough, but this seems like an uphill road.

Given that kbin (or at least kbin.social) generally doesn’t have restrictions on making accounts either I would assume we’re next, eventually.

Reading from kbin.social, the flagship kbin instance. All clear.

So what you’re saying is, mass-edit all your comments to contain your full name right before requesting deletion.

As exemplified by your comment accidentally getting duplicated four times :]

Start from Doom. Well, not quite the original release, but rather Doom Legacy. From this base, create a 3D Sonic platformer styled after the Genesis era games. That’s Sonic Robo Blast 2 (because yes, it’s a sequel from a previous fangame named Sonic Robo Blast from all the way back in 1997).

We’re not done yet. Mod it further… into an online kart game. That inherits the same modding abilities Doom Legacy has. You’ve got Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart, sometimes nicknamed MUGEN Kart to the dismay of its developers due to the sheer amount of addons for increasingly weird characters its forum hosts. If you’re interested, said forum, hosting both the addons for SRB2, SRB2 Kart and the SRB2 Kart releases themselves can be found here: https://mb.srb2.org/ (for some reason the main website, https://www.srb2.org/, is down as I’m writing this. Oops.)

For SRB2 Kart in particular, the thread to get your hands on it is here: https://mb.srb2.org/threads/srb2kart.25868/ and you can find its repository here: https://github.com/STJr/Kart-Public

The game is wacky, very fun, runs on a stale potato and it’s easy to set up a server to subject an unsuspecting community to your specific choice of insane mods among the hundreds if not thousands available.

Eh, whoever takes up that offer is going to learn in short order why the protest is happening in the first place. As will the rest of the community once the content quality drops into the gutter because the would-be replacement mods can’t keep up with getting rid of the garbage. You try moderating a subreddit of any significant size with gimped moderation tools. If anything, this would accelerate Reddit’s fall into irrelevance as users start looking elsewhere for a place that isn’t overrun by spambots of various flavors.

Meanwhile over on kbin, the points really do, in fact, not matter since comment ordering is dictated by the boost count.

Amusingly, among the very first posts to /r/france once it went back up was a call to reinstate the blackout indefinitely.