So I’ve been messing around with standing up my own instance (mostly as a learning tool) and near as I can tell, even with email verification and registration required it still creates the user, they’re just not enabled. How are you differentiating between servers with a large amount of unverified accounts vs servers with open signups?

I want to second using the website as a pwa. It works quite well.

Omg I would kill a man if it meant Relay for Lemmy/KBin.

I mostly agree. Although there are a lot of people who just don’t care, or can’t be bothered, most just don’t know/lack context.

Your average user isn’t reading TheVerge and has no clue what was going on. Their front page got weird for a few days, some of the usual content disappeared. They go elsewhere and maybe try again tomorrow.

That’s also asshole design. Most people are behind some form of nat. It’s especially egregious for customers of ISPs who use CGNAT.

Disappointing but expected.

There’s no cut off. Some people are just judgy (and often hypocritical).

I’m the same age as you and I’ve been gaming my whole life. My father had all the Ataris, (2600, 400, 800, XT, etc…). He and I built my first 386 together. My uncles had the Intellivision. Cousins with the ColecoVision. My father’s almost 70 and he’s still an avid Destiny 2 player.

I will admit tho, it’s harder to find women, our age, who are either into or at least open to gaming as an adult hobby. I’m not saying they don’t exist but having been divorced and remarried I can say there’s a gender gap there. I was lucky enough to find someone open minded. She never complained about my weekly game nights to keep in touch with my friends and she’s even opened up over the last few years and has become a bit of a gamer herself.

So… there is no cut off. It’s not immature or childish, and it’s certainly more of an art form than 3/4 of the garbage those same people will spend their free time on (reality tv, tiktock, endlessly scrolling the void of facebook).

I’d kill for a game with the scope of Skyrim where the NPCs truly felt like they were living their own lives.

If everyone uses cloudflare and cloudflare goes down…

Because they don’t always exist.

I feel your pain but the most obvious problem, is that any link that hasn’t federated will lead to a 404.

Sorry, still learning. Saw the reddit link and my brain fixated on that.

I have the same problem on both. Seems like the !name@server nor the full url ever populate. What I am finding is that after some time, if I come back and just type in a partial name (to search federated communities) it’ll show up.

I feel that. I have maybe 3 friends who use Signal. The rest are spread out sms, fb, discord, etc…

Ooh. I used to follow this sub. Thanks.

Care to link it for those of us who don’t want to give reddit traffic?

Yeah the sad part is that, really, the best we can hope for is a post mortem. Rescue is almost impossible in this situation.

I mean yes but, you don’t have to use it.

The fact that everyone treats Golem-Picard as True-Picard felt to me like confirmation that, in the ST universe, what makes you you is your mind. Memories, thought patterns, etc… I know it was tv-show hand wavery but the fact that no one mourned the death of their friend, or really ever once questioned the validity of the golem taking his place bothered me a little.

Except this is much smaller and more nascent than email, which has been around for decades. I don’t think proactively de-federating instances that have done anything yet is the wrong approach at this time.