I saw the first pic and was like “nice sculpture”, but then saw the scuba diver one and was like “holy shit, it’s huge 😮” definitely takes the cool factor way higher once I realized!

I’m not an expert on this but at least some of the tribes are sovereign nations, right? I don’t think they have the authority to tell them what to do.

Damn they really must be desperate. I can’t imagine tribes saying yes to this…

So let me get this straight… They’re still burning money on Concord through legal costs? Just walk away guys.

I’m from the area and this is a really big win. We’ve had a string of terrible mayors beating promising progressives, so this is a long time coming!

It’s hard to overstate how insanely fast these games get made. I have no doubt that the project managers have to cut any corner they can to meet the release schedule. Don’t take this as a defense of the result, but rather a criticism of the treadmill dev cycle for these games.

would you like to look at something on the screen in detail? That’s now part of the premium plan, sorry.

Was gonna say this, too. I’ve known some people who assume what I’m saying before I’m done, and then go on to show they didn’t actually listen and didn’t grasp the point at all.

Don’t guess what people are trying to say. Listen to them. They’re telling you. You don’t have to guess. 😅

If you ever have to open a command prompt, you’ve already lost them.

I would love to have more diversity here, so I’m afraid I don’t agree with that. 🤷‍♂️

I don’t really think you grasp the breadth and depth of what the federal government does.

Neither does the Trump administration 😏

I ended up where I did because I wanted the closest thing to no instance possible, and the great folks running this one try to do just that. It’s fediverse Switzerland lol

I would agree with that. I think the ability to spin up new instances if something goes wrong with a big one is still a great feature even if one gains dominance.

I don’t know how hard account migration is right now, but that’s probably another UX thing to make easy if the devs decide to work on it.

Yeah that’s a good point. Maybe it’s too different for it to work. I maintain that complexity will continue to push people away, though. If instances are that different we might have better luck referring to them as their own sites. That would just increase the flocking to single mega instances though. The most important feature of any social media site is who’s on it.

Having to explain federation is kind of the issue in my opinion. This idea wouldn’t be to remove the normal sign up process, it would be a way to side step it entirely for those who don’t care about the technology aspect of it and just want to be part of the community.

If you want to pick your own instance or suggest one, that would still exist. This would just be an alternative. It would also help to avoid everyone gravitating towards the largest instance, because it would try to load balance people automatically.

I’m not a programmer so I can’t speak to how hard this is, but I think it would be a big asset to building user base if there was a neutral sign up website that wasn’t a specific instance. It would basically choose an instance for you automatically and skip that part. I figure there could be some list of general purpose instances compiled that are all fair game and the site would try to spread the load across instances.

Average user doesn’t care about federation, and all of that complexity is a big turn off. I know because I almost didn’t sign up myself because of that. Having to pick a team just to get in the door feels kinda bad.

I’ve seen a lot of very tech savvy people still using google and chrome to this day. It’s the top search engine. The majority of people use it, including pirates.

I would agree with that. I’d rather not play than play in a bad group (or a group that doesn’t play the style I enjoy)

I love that it’s that similar 😆

My wife and I say that our cat is seeing “grublins”, mysterious creatures only cats can see. When he’s acting crazy we say he’s in “grubworld”.