MudMan

I don’t think they expect gaming on Linux to be anything. I don’t think they consider gaming on Linux at all.

Here’s my alternative proposal for their thought process:

“Linux?”

Alternately “I wonder what’s for dinner”.

People really overestimate how top of mind Linux is for the average Windows user.

Wait, which of these Windows users are aware enough of Linux to have a formed expectation of Steam working under it or not? Like, they don’t know enough to understand what it is, but they’re super concerned that Steam, of all things, won’t run on it?

Are these Very Real Windows Users from Canada? Did they approach the poster with tears in their eyes?

Cool.

So?

I mean, you are assuming “decentralized” is good, but it’s only as good as what it gets you. On paper, and until proven otherwise, I may choose less decentralized and more “capable of proper, effective moderation” instead. Especially if “less decentralized” is actually “somewhat decentralized”. I haven’t seen a case that fundamental decentralization trumps all so far.

See, but as I was saying above about the privacy stuff, the perception is supposed to be that this is somehow “the alogrithm’s fault” or caused on purpose by corporate media to boost engagement.

Even your take is letting Fedi design off the hook, IMO. The answer here isn’t “oh, well, what can you do?” it’s designing proper moderation tools.

I know people get mad when you praise Bluesky around these parts, but they have an actually good block system, compared to Masto, Lemmy and Fedi in general. It really helps cut this crap short.

Well, where are you all when the Fedi cheerleading squad keeps posting about how bad it is that this or that competitor stores this or that information and how secure and private and great it is in Fedi servers because they don’t store anything?

Because I’ve spent years chiming in to explain these things in those and it normally just gets people angry and complaining that you’re shilling for corporate social media or whatever. The image being projected, both accidentally and on purpose is that no centralized data collection means your data on Fedi is private when it is extremely not.

whipers ominously

Double decker tape recorders.

And just to be clear, the “hype” works more or less the same way when it’s leftie nerds cheering the drops than when it’s cultists cheering the increases.

Which is probably why people weren’t acknowledging that despite the huge drops they were still up year on year.

It’s not a culture war if they make policy based on it. Can’t really be shouting from the fence at the migrants being detained, put in camps and deported or the women being denied abortions or the trans people being arrested for having to pee that the culture war is a distraction and if they only looked at it from a class perspective everything would be fine.

I mean, you can, but after a while it starts to suspiciously just seem like you actually agree with the fascists and the anarchocapitalists on the issues, or at least that you’re just as willing to use attackig marginalized scapegoats for your own political gain.

The euphemistic language trend is baffling to me. For sure it’s not a censorship problem, right? Adding a synonym to a profanity dictionary is trivial, it wouldn’t fool anybody for any amount of time.

Man, people really overstate the barrier to entry to the terminal. Windows troubleshooting is full of command line stuff as well.

It’s not the terminal, it’s the underlying issues. Having more GUI options to set certain things is nice, but the reality of it is that if an option isn’t customizable to the point of needing quick GUI access it should just never break, not be configurable or at least not need any manual configuration at any point. The reason nobody goes “oh, but Windows command line is so annoying” is that if you are digging in there something has gone very wrong or you’re trying to do something Windows doesn’t want you to do.

The big difference is that the OS not wanting you to do things you can do is a bug for people in this type of online community while for normies it’s a feature.

I’ll be honest, I didn’t see “healthy burgers” until I read the caption and my brain still doesn’t want to read it that way at all.