Does anyone know of a #pleroma server that isn’t fascist? Pleroma has a lot of interesting stuff, but unfortunately, it also has a lot of rotten people.

I would like to think such examples exist, I have not encountered them.

These Are The Voyages is definitely unpopular

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Motor Town isn’t exactly what you want, it is more like GTA but just the car jobs.

The physics feel good though, like reallly good.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1369670/Motor_Town_Behind_The_Wheel/

Yeah I know this guy Annatar he can help you out, super trustable.

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I think that is how people active on the Discord community perceived it from their perspective, but it was not at all how I experienced Battlebit die as an initial huge fan of the game.

The gun balance came utterly unhinged because the developers weren’t actually interested in reaching their fans and listening vs. just using Discord and assuming that accomplished it, and it became frustrating to play any other style than mindless rush smg medic because squeakiest wheel gets the grease…

Once the backlash and drop off in playtime started coming from the broader playerbase not terminally tuned into Discord, the developers were basically blindsided and unable to adapt so they functionally abandoned the game.

If you are Discord-brained indeed what your complaint about Battlebit would be is that the developers abandoned the game but that doesn’t speak to the context at all in my opinion.

It is so infuriating espeically when any attempt to interact with the community around the game is met by the developer or community members saying “Ha! Silly you! The only place to socialize about this is Discord!”.

I have hated the fact that Discord was eating all the communities I love from the beginning, but this long into this nightmare what I find so frustrating is game developers who rely on Discord for feedback and to get a sense of where their community is at, pretend that the subset of people who use their Discord is broadly representative of the people who buy and play their game when it just isn’t.

Battlebit is a great example of a multiplayer game that only listened to its most active members on Discord who wanted a rush style arcade high intensity flavor to the combat and facilitating those players above all else lead to the entire rest of the game becoming unbalanced. When backlash started to happen, the devs again only listened to the SMG rush style players who were constantly vocalizing in the Discord and making highlight clips from it and stuff so the solution was to further nerf sniper players because that was the class SMG rush style players hated the most.

The game is dead now and I can’t think of a clearer example of how Discord can be a major liability to a game community rather than a boon.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/671860/BattleBit_Remastered/

I am not even sure the developers realize even now this was one of the major contributing factors to the collapse of the multiplayer community around their game which is even more frustrating.

Prove it!

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Write Freely instance maybe?

https://writefreely.org/

Right so because LLMs are attrocious at actually precisely carrying out logic operations the solution was likely to just throw a normal calculator inside the AI, make the AI use the calculator and then turn around and handwave that the entire thing is AI.

So… you could just skip the bullshit and use a calculator, the AI just repackages the same answer with more boilerplate bullshit.

Wolfram Alpha is the non-bullshit version of this.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/

Why would I bother?

Calculators exist, logic exists, so no… LLMs are a laughably bad fit for directly doing math, they are bullshit engines they cannot “store” a value without fundamentally exposing it to hallucinating tendencies which is the worst property a calculator could possibly have.

so check the steam controls by pressing the bottom left … button. Examine the controls for Factorio, are the steam deck controls mapped to mouse and keyboard or is Factorio receiving the actual gamepad inputs without them being translated?

From there you can just figure out which binding is for fire with the keyboard and map that to a steam deck button that makes sense for you, or you can look up the gamepad bindings in factorio and figure it out that way.

Honestly, the FBI has been doing brainworms shit for decades. This is way worse now obviously but lets not retcon the former legitimacy of the FBI. It is NOT there to keep us safe and it never has been. The FBI always has been a tool of oppression for the rightwing.

Ultimately the US was… by its own cancerous military industrial complex.

It is time for us all to step the fuck up and protect trans people, ESPECIALLY if you yourself aren’t trans.

I think this kind of critical analysis of the Fediverse could be completely right in every single one of the details and still miss the more important point that corporate social networks are being used in a directly hostile fashion towards vulnerable people RIGHT NOW to a near catastrophic degree of negligence to put things in the most charitable terms possible. Further the people who own those corporations publicly endorse narratives that invisiblize the violence happening to real human beings.

Realize that by getting lost in a baseball stats esque evaluation of the Fediverse that we cede ground already to people who are disengenous. We have to consider the context of the alternative reality of corporate social media to fairly evaluate the Fediverse.