So we’re calling legitimate criticism review bombing now?

Yes with an emulator. Look up dolphin for the gamecube version or torzu for switch. Dolphin + gamecube will be easier to run if your laptop isn’t very powerful

Put it in a laptop

I’d have switched years ago if I could get the economy of scale that a restaurant does

Downvoting for “they’re, there, their” gore, mark it NSFL next time sheesh

^/s

Moral members of society have an inherent obligation to be activists, for as long as marginalized groups exist.

That doesn’t mean you have to be ‘out’, but if you’re standing by and watching your fellow humans be marginalized when you could be offering help, that is wholly immoral, and frankly you don’t deserve the safety that you are enjoying when you won’t seek it for your fellow people.

I’d leave it on read and probably never talk to you again

And we’re back to every day

This is my point when it comes to federation stuff. You don’t need to understand it at all to use Lemmy. Join and start scrolling just like you would on reddit

Yeah, that’s the type of motive I was struggling to find. I could absolutely see that happening.

Most of us are on both, because Lemmy still isn’t big enough

Realistically the solution would be instances moving away from the Lemmy ‘brand’. You could more easily direct users to a specific one and fast track newbies past all the fediverse details.

If we go with the email analogy, people rarely ever search for ‘email’, they just go to the specific ones they know. Then searching for lemmy gets you to places like join-lemmy.org that cares about the ecosystem, while terms analogous to gmail directs you more to a specific instance.

And I think this sort of branding model actually more compatible with the idea of decentralization. As a culture, I think we would better serve federation by directly linking and promoting our preferred instances, rather than harping on about federation and the lemmyverse.

Sure, but the complaints I see are never “I don’t see content there that I like”, it’s always “its too complicated and I can’t sign up/see content at all”

but if you make it to any Lemmy site, you’re right there on the home feed instantly, same as reddit.

So is it really a problem of users not even making it to an instance? Are they really all getting brick-walled by join-lemmy.org, or is something else going on here?

Yes, you’re a pedant intentionally missing the point to argue a different definition than the one I’m using

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_suffrage

It really looks like you’re being intentionally obtuse here.

I’m in hundreds of discord servers, most of which have 10,000 to 300,000 thousand users each.

I do still use IRC, and I rarely find a server with more than 1000 users, most of which are bots, or users who only send bot commands. A typical ‘active’ channel has less than 10 active chatters over a week. IRC is dead.

I’m happy you are able to find niche use cases for it, but that’s obviously not what I’m talking about.

The fact of the matter is this: if I want to engage with any of the hundreds of broad communities I frequent, I am not able to do that on IRC anymore. They are just not there.

Nice to see curation used for something other than memes and hate groups

People type their credit cards into online stores all the time.

Sure, under the assumption that it’s not being stored without permission, or securely with permission. People are and should be very cautious about what sites you directly submit your card info to, and for less popular sites people are more and more opting to use a third party payment processor like apple, amazon, PayPal, etc.

In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.

One of the most common ways cards get skimmed in person. You should absolutely be wary of this especially if it takes an unusually long time. I’ve been at group dinners where this was commented on. Seems pretty common sense.

I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!

I disagree. This is a common point of concern in my experience with customer facing roles, and anecdotally in my social life. When I worked for a major cell provider, for example, we sent a digital form to the customer so that we didn’t have to collect card info over the phone at all. In the event that we did as a fallback, customers were very wary of this across the board.

I’ve only seen those in movies, and I haven’t even had an embossed card in years. but most people (rightfully so) would refuse having their card info written anywhere these days. Things have really changed