https://archive.ph/y0nY3

Summary:

The whole post seems strange to me, what do you all think?

Additional context: https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/

  • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
    72·
    9 hours ago

    Ye I know, it’s fucking bizarre. Every 6 months, a new reddit alternative comes up which doesn’t have apub and expects to get user by sheer charm or smt.

    Well put. It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
      91·
      9 hours ago

      Software devs and their “I can build this better from scratch in one weekend” mentality, mate…

      • curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        6 hours ago

        Maybe its old age and laziness, but at least 99 times out of 100 I think “someone else built this better from scratch in a weekend, I should check some git repos first”.

        If I find nothing, start a project, get it functional, and then randomly run across exactly what I’m looking for (or close enough with minor updates I can send upstream).

    • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      8 hours ago

      It’s a bit disheartening, because people put time and energy in those projects, that could be used to develop the existing open source platforms…

      Okay so while true, this is also highly ironic given the nature of the OP.😜

      I’ll restate your words as “instead of splitting our efforts, why not contribute towards enhancing the existing options…?” (I know the answer, I’m just saying it’s ironic 😛)

      • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
        31·
        7 hours ago

        That’s fair 😄 As stated in the OP, in this case there is no effort to join on the LW community unfortunately 😅

        • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          I don’t know the game so therefore why you’d want to promote a second community for it, but if you feel that you want to, then go for it! But yeah you definitely seemed to have pissed off the owner of the previous one, so I’m not sure it’s worth that - and yet with all the delays in federation of content (not only to Australia and New Zealand but also I’ve definitely been impacted by it several times in the USA) I do see that there is some value there.

          I almost wonder if it’s worth offering to hand the new community over to Serinus if all you want is to help move some communities off of Lemmy.World. On the other hand, there are so many problems with that like how cross-instance mod reports don’t federate yet, and there seems to be some special reason (the specific computer coding) to keep that particular one on Lemmy.World.

          In that case then, is there any reason why Serinus should be particularly happy about you having created the other community, without consulting them first? All the more reason to not go into their community then and post advertisements to move over to the new one? Even if you meant well, Serinus may not see the same value in that which you do, so I think that was a bit of a mistake on your part. Even as Serinus’ reactions here and there are on them (which I told them as well, directly).

          You might rather enjoy working together to achieve both of your aims rather than being at odds with one another… ofc you do you, and whatever you feel you must, I just hoped that might spark something in you, even if I am too far removed to fully see all of the situation to make an accurate judgement call.:-)

          • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            To be completely fair, I might not stick with the game much longer. The company which manages it recently enshittified it, so the player experience is getting worse and worse.

            We’ll see!

            • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              Yikes, that happens so very often: they lure people in then abuse them for cash, just like Google and Microsoft and Apple and Meta and Reddit and X etc. It would be cool if people developed better open source alternatives.:-) But especially it gets so tricky with anything multiplayer bc people want so very badly to cheat:-(.

              • Blaze (he/him)@feddit.orgOPEnglish
                2·
                2 hours ago

                They just made the game very difficult for new players, basically killing userbase renewal.

                Milking benefit before killing the game as a whole.

                • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
                  1·
                  2 hours ago

                  A tale as old as time, and somehow we all keep falling for it, saying how THIS game will be different. And then it is… until it isn’t anymore:-(.

                  I am sorry you are having to go through that.:-( I feel the same about my game that’s currently doing the same as well. Another Eden is the only mobile ga(t)cha that I allowed myself to play, bc of it being a spiritual successor to Chrono Trigger, arguably the best JRPG of all time. And it was that, for a time, and to some extent still is, but it is also in process to not be thus anymore, and has been moving steadily in that direction for a long time.

                  Then again, if I were still a mod of that community then I’d have to remain on Reddit where it stayed, so letting it go freed me to seek out other things such as Lemmy:-). Perhaps you won’t have to “quit” yours just yet, even if you can no longer recommend it to newer players starting out. Another Eden has been coasting like that for years.