I’ve initially followed hashtags and then my feed was filled with absolute crap since everyone tags even irrelevant things all the time, not to mention posts in other languages (but not marked as such so they don’t get filtered). Like following gaming, steam, linux is just asking for trouble, but even if you follow something smaller you don’t get stuff about the game - you get stuff about people that like that game. Following steamdeck just filled my feed with people complaining about it or saying how its collecting dust for them.

Then I started following people instead and as few hashtags as possible. Now my feed is 40% them talking about their pets, kids, tech stacks or daily representation issues or anxiety, 30% is rants about social networks and fediverse, 20% actual tech news and 10% is sometimes actual interesting new content or pictures.

Maybe its a learning curve, maybe I just have different expectations since whenever I bring it up people just respond “it is its own thing, not twitter”. It’s not bad, but it’s not really what I want either.

It’s hard to say since there are major security issues with that. I think it’d be better if we weren’t anonymous but we’re not really ‘there’ yet mentally and culturally and it’d be used for nefarious purposes.

I do often wish I knew who I was talking to for real because I’d have vastly different behavior if I’m talking to a 15 year old kid, a 30 year old redneck or a 50 year old doctor for example.

It is twitter:fediverse edition, but without the algorithm showing you content you’re interested in so you just get random thoughts from unknown people. Some people prefer it that way, I personally struggle finding useful or interesting things in my feed.

Please please please let this be the breaking point at which big online personalities switch to mastodon, or at least start using those crossposting tools. That’s the only thing I miss from twitter and something RSS cant replace

Jedi Academy

What does ‘making changes to its core system’ mean? I though people were able to use steam deck as a proper pc already, installing new apps on it and stuff like that?

Star wars jedi power battles. More people need to know about the second best jedi game with the worst title that ever existed.

I shouldn’t buy anything because I don’t have time for it as it is, but I really want to get stuff ugh, i’m even tempted by the discounted steam deck! And so many new releases in just a few months as well.

Anyway, Chrono Trigger is 50% off, maybe it’s time I finally give it a try. P5 is only 40% off so still a pass for me. Maybe finally get onto the DSP hype to tide me over until that factorio expansion finally gets finished. Maybe get a strategy game, I’ve been torn between Age of Darkness and Diplomacy is not an option. So many choices…

The update that overhauls the core systems is going to be free, the expansion being sold is the phantom liberty new story with the president and Idris Elba. Just saying.

Exactly, I can go to discord and create a new server with a few clicks. Even as a somewhat tech savvy person I am not that confident about setting up a server, securing it properly, making it scalable for large amount of users, handling data storage and backups and all that.

Trying not to get sucked into the hype since I only game on PC and it will be years before it’s available here ;(

She’s doing the same thing as always, taking advantage of vulnerable people while playing herself off as a victim. This is hardly news or something positive about AI chat bots…

Revolt seems to be to Discord what Lemmy/Kbin are to reddit, but I dont see most people bothering with it unless discord makes some reeaaallly huge mistakes to piss the community off.