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    • 7 felt like it was mine

    I remember that marketing campaign. Windows Vista had a shaky launch, because the hardware manufacturers hadn’t polished the Vista-compatible drivers yet. 6 months later, they had caught up, but people still had a bad taste from it.

    So when service pack 1 came out, Microsoft made a reskinned version of it and started an ad campaign with “customers” claiming “Windows 7 was my idea!” and the public ate it up.





  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldHacker News feed
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    5 months ago

    Yes, if you want to see Hackernews posts, get them from Hackernews yourself. Reposting to Lemmy just adds more posts with zero engagement that new users will see and be put off of the site for

    Several months ago we had three different instances with their own Hackernews communities and their own repost bots posting the exact same things, with zero discussion.

    Lemmy needs more actual discussion, and fewer bots adding noise to the feed.



  • Aa!@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.worldIs Lemmy growing or shrinking?
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    5 months ago

    A lot of people talk about the decentralization being a barrier of entry, but I don’t think it is.

    Generally speaking, your average social media user won’t care about that one way or the other. You tell them an instance to look at, they will check it out.

    Where I think it goes wrong is the general Lemmy attitude of curating your own feed. Your average Lemmy user will say the best part is that you just block the communities and instances that you don’t want to see.

    Your average social media user on the other hand, doesn’t want to spend an hour or a month blocking people and communities to make the site useable. Most folks will come in, see a feed full of tech bros, repost bots with zero discussion, 30 different fetish porn communities, Star Trek memes, and bottom of the barrel shitposts, and they’ll just leave.

    The only way I see Lemmy overcoming this is for instance admins to heavily curate the default experience so the feed is friendlier to new users. This would likely require some more tools in place to allow for this, possibly even a default block list that users can customize after they are already drawn in

    Also the sorting could be better.










  • Admittedly haven’t tried bard itself yet, but I’ve got access to all those spells on Gale, and I find a well-placed fireball usually ends up being the better choice. The main problem i have is that I almost never saw those conditions last for even one turn, they would just pass a save and it was like the spell might as well have just missed.

    It’s a little frustrating, because surely there must be value in using those spells… But I’m definitely not doing it correctly when I try them out.

    For what it’s worth I played tactician mode right from the start, which probably colored my learning curve a bit


  • The Emperor said that he found the artifact first and that it (Orpheus) freed him from the brain’s influence while he was within it. Then he looked to make allies on the outside, which meant using the power to free the people who were conveniently nearby

    I’m sure he tried to pick out the strongest ones that were available, but it’s all presented like he had to be inside in order to wield its power and be free of the brain, and we were allies of convenience.

    Not to say you’re wrong, because we don’t even necessarily have to trust his version of events. He was, after all, trying to make sure we would accept him when we discovered he was a mind flayer