You’re right and I’d bet the people there would have silly names like ‘Burn Ham’.

AT Proto is a terrible base for a chat app. There’s a reason Bluesky’s DMs aren’t stored in your PDS. Hell, even your bookmarks (which are stored in your PDS) are off protocol.

Does anyone else find the font on this uncomfortable to read is that just me?

Yeah, I’m not sure either tbh. I can think of quite a few things that make a name forgettable (eg noun of proper noun), but I can’t think of anything that would make a name memorable other than it just being memorable.

Just as an aside, but I will push back on portal being an uncommon word. It’s more common than chess.

geneva_convenience is still doing the ‘combating antisemitism is Jewish supremacy’ thing?

Relevant Tom Scott video.

Edit: VNs also tend to use pretty large fonts for English in my experience.

Duskfade is a perfectly pleasant 3D platformer with Kingdom Hearts-style combat that came out a couple of months ago. Once I’ve finished typing this paragraph, however, it will once again erase itself from my memory, because there’s nothing evocative about the name.

I feel that says more about the game than the name. Like I find (scrolls through Steam library) Bullet Witch is a more memorable name than say Portal, but I can tell you a hell of a lot more about the latter.

“Beyond that—I actually think that naming isn’t that important, since most people buy a game based on video footage, someone else playing it, or a recommendation. And we’ve seen in music and elsewhere that weird names are in no way a blocker to becoming successful.” Carless cites Steely Dan and Bananarama as examples.

Do people really look at the videos on Steam? I always immediately click past them to look at the images.

Failbetter’s next game is called Mandrake—the result of lots of collaborative longlisting, Flynn says. As well as encapsulating horticultural and sorcerer-type themes, it’s the name of the game’s main character.

This would be like if Esoteric Ebb called itself ‘Cleric’, though given Wizards of the Coast is publishing a game called ‘Warlock: Dungeon & Dragons’ I suppose it wouldn’t be that out there.

Good article though.

I wish I was the kind of person where 18 tabs was a lot.

Muse isn’t actually a hosting provider, it’s a chatbot. It’s just the security on it is so bad you can do stuff like this.

Hey folks, I have several accounts across the fediverse (Lemmy, pixelfed, mastodon, bookwyrm), and I think it would be neat to have a single identity across all these platforms.

This is just something ActivityPub just doesn’t handle very well. It’s one of the things AT Proto (Bluesky, Tangled) handles a lot better and hopefully something we steal from it.

Rebased, a fork of Pleroma

The TERF fork?

Could I still use the different apps? (Blorp, Pachli, Rocinante). Would I be missing features?

No, these apps depend on the various platform APIs. Pachli might work, depending on how Mastodon-compatible Pleroma’s API is, but Blorp and Rocinante will not.

She’s updated the comment now to say ‘a lot of us outright ban’, which is more accurate.

Just a side note, GNOME Circle and Extensions are two different things (but both do ban AI projects). Circle is a way for GNOME to say a third party app is good, while Extensions are like browser extensions but for the DE.

Debit cards normally.

What do you mean?

The problem with this is that in the UK and now Australia, to view ‘Adult’ games you need to verify your age with a credit card. Something that isn’t common to have in either country. And in Germany the game is completely delisted.

There’s not even any tiddies! They’re all (according to the dev) covered by scenery. But you can have sex with a bear in BG3 and that’s not adult content

You don’t have to be subscribed to see activities in a community (including downvotes) but someone on you instance does for the community know to send the activities to that instance.

Disabling downvotes doesn’t actually prevent items being downvoted, it just hides them from those that don’t want to see it.

Disabling donvotes in the instance setting does prevent them being recorded on that instance. You can see the code here.

track downvotes from outside instances

No, Lemmy just forwards the downvote to the community’s subscribers, so other instances receive them. The downvote is not written to the db on instances with it disabled.

Provenance has never been something you can guarantee with code in an open contribution model (which is not the only way of governing an open source project). For all you know the code could be copy and pasted from a proprietary codebase, or be the product of third party who’s work is being plagiarised by the submitter. A software project is ultimately a community and is build on trust and faith that people are acting in good faith. The kind of person who would deliberately (and gleefully as I’ve seen in some social media posts) go into a community and violate its stated values and standards, no matter how arbitrary and illegitimate they feel those are, has bigger character flaws to worry about than their reliance on stochastic parrots to write code.

‘No AI’ rules are ultimately about fostering certain community values and norms than guaranteeing no LLM code makes it in.

AI code bans may be impossible to enforce in the first place

I hate this attitude that if a rule or standard can’t be enforced perfectly, we shouldn’t strive for it. We can’t (reasonably) run an OS free of proprietary software, does that mean the free software movement should just give up?

Sure why not. It doesn’t happen very often anyway, AI people are pretty good at keeping to their own spaces here.