Yeah. Would be nice for those of us that never got to try out the online mode. I also don’t think it’s available on Playstation past the PS3

I really think it comes down to the individual. I personally think that Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World was likely derived at least partially from the book We by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin but both Aldous Huxley and my 10th grade English teacher would disagree. I don’t think it’s wrong to take someone else’s work and add upon it in a way you view beneficial. I view it as a natural evolution if anything and if it gives someone something to enjoy or makes the creative processes a little easier I’m all for it.

Yeah in the same remixing a song is considered original

Do you feel like you ever got over the initial setup period? A lot of what you are describing is what I encounter after a fresh install but I don’t typically have any issues after a little bit of tweaking.

What laptop is it?

Have you checked out this page?

Is Railway Hosting what people are using for hosting Lemmy instances?

I don’t do much. Most of them are friends from when I was a kid but in a weird way I worry they would judge me in a disappointed kind of way with how my life is going.

Most of them have kids, spouses, or careers at this point so I don’t know if they would be willing or able to make the time

It’s still $400 to buy Sims 3 as well despite the game being over ten years old.

Hotline Miami 2. I’ve beat it on several platforms but I really don’t think it’s as good as the original.

Fallout 3. Mostly due to the mountain of technical issues it has on PC but even playing on console you can run into stability issues.

The good thing is Lemmy isn’t like Reddit where a subreddit becomes locked if inactive for an extended period of time. You could still post there and people who sort by new will see your content.

Even if the mod was active people would likely only see it by sorting through all or manually searching for it.

Just like Reddit

I played Max Payne and its sequal recently and I was surprised how well they held up. The gameplay and level design kept it consistently fun

Sure, but why would someone running a near-isolated instance want to list it there? They would just end up dealing with a lot of annoyed & disappointed users.

Maybe they only want to deal with a specific niche. For example a university that only wants to federate with other academic organizations

On top of what other people have already said each instance has different rules. One instance might have rules against NSFW content and defederate from NSFW instances while others may be fine with it.

They might be confused about some VPNs removing port forwarding and thinking that kills their use case rather than limiting it

Parents feeding their baby cola in bottles and smoking while pregnant are two things that usually cause me to make assumptions

I feel like it’s the occasional unpredictability that people are scared of. Whether it’s people being unable to tell if something was created by ChatGPT, if it’s pulling false sources, or people finding ways around set limitations and filters.

Thanks for the response. I was more referring to that specific example. The article talked about Microsoft dealing with word processors and linked that Wikipedia page.

Interesting article, thanks for posting. I’ve used a few Matrix servers that use bridges to Discord and I’ve noticed a similar effect where they’ll occasionally go down for extended periods of time. As nice as the idea is to use Element over Discord it’s a lot easier to stick to the mainstream where people are and technical issues are at a minimum.

I’ll admit this part did go a bit over my head.

What Google did to XMPP was not new. In fact, in 1998, Microsoft engineer Vinod Vallopllil explicitly wrote a text titled “Blunting OSS attacks” where he suggested to “de-commoditize protocols & applications […]. By extending these protocols and developing new protocols, we can deny OSS project’s entry into the market.”

Microsoft put that theory in practice with the release of Windows 2000 which offered support for the Kerberos security protocol. But that protocol was extended. The specifications of those extensions could be freely downloaded but required to accept a license which forbid you to implement those extensions. As soon as you clicked “OK”, you could not work on any open source version of Kerberos. The goal was explicitly to kill any competing networking project such as Samba.