Started !citiesskylines@lemmy.ml, still playing Stardew Valley (I went up 100 hours in about a month!), and still slowly progressing on My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom -Pirates of the Disturbance- as I yell about on the !otomegames@kbin.run weekly threads. I have also been trying various !incremental_games@incremental.social, including a billion bananas and Squareixion.

For transparency, just a subscriber on most of those communities, but I do mod !otomegames@kbin.run.

A lot of what I wanted to post already got put here, but Bunhouse isn’t here yet.

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Nice. Will be looking once it exits EA. Heard too many stories of people getting burned from EA in order to ever get a game in EA myself.

For anyone curious, awwnverts is for invertebrates.

Animals

• !bunnies@lemmy.world (/c/bunnies@lemmy.world)
• !bun_alert_system@sh.itjust.works (/c/bun_alert_system@sh.itjust.works)
• !snakes@lemmy.world (/c/snakes@lemmy.world)
• !royalpython@lemmy.world (/c/royalpython@lemmy.world)
• !foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org (/c/foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org)
• !superbowl@lemmy.world (/c/superbowl@lemmy.world)

Do you mean !askhistorians@lemmy.world?

Also,

One important criteria: please only promote communities that have been at least one post in the last 7 days. And if there is none, feel free to post there and then promote it here!

Video game genres

• !cozygames@feddit.de (/c/cozygames@feddit.de)
• !otomegames@kbin.run (/c/otomegames@kbin.run)
• !tycoon@lemmy.world (/c/tycoon@lemmy.world), which also allows city builders
• !incremental_games@incremental.social (/c/incremental_games@incremental.social), currently having federation issues at least from my instance unfortunately, but a fun time when it isn’t.
• !automation_games@feddit.de (/c/automation_games@feddit.de)
• !lifesimulation@lemmy.world (/c/lifesimulation@lemmy.world)
• !crpg@lemmy.world (/c/crpg@lemmy.world) (stands for Computer Role-Playing Games. Just RPGs, designated “Computer” to separate it from TableTop Role-Playing Games)

My concern is because regardless of what communities I can access, Mbin is so tiny compared to Lemmy that I feel a bit bad abandoning the less-used Fediverse platform. One less not-Lemmy user, even if I still prop up the same communities with my activities. Well, I’d still be a not-Lemmy user, but I guess one less Mbin user, which I feel could use all the help it can get.

Downvotes usually signify “you posted something rude, objectively incorrect, off-topic, or instance/community rule-breaking” and people who think they did not do anything wrong might understandably be frustrated when they are getting the signal they did something like that, but they can’t figure out what bad behavior they’re getting downvoted for at all. They might want to know what the downvoter thinks they are doing that is inappropriate so they can stop it, or if it is just a troll trying to make people unhappy and thus ignorable. And given the “lol why do you even care, are you that sensitive over internet points” kind of view, it makes it even more annoying because asking what they did wrong might just get them a response like that and no further clue to what offensive behavior they’ve committed. I know some people use downvote for a mere disagreement as well as for actual objectionable behavior, and trolls exist so downvotes are often safe to ignore, but I’d imagine a reasonable person who does not care about internet points might start getting a little “oh god what did I do wrong” if it’s more half-up half-down or mostly downvoted, especially since I usually see rude/spammy/incorrect things downvoted more heavily than things politely pushing against the grain of popular opinion.

Also somewhat relevant: I subscribe to some really small magazines/communities. Some of them are full of posts that might appear bad or controversial by vote count (think 3 upvotes vs 3 downvotes, 4 upvotes vs 3 downvotes), but the posts are entirely on topic and are not particularly biased or incorrect. I feel bad for them because it makes that post look low-quality or like they are about a controversial topic when it is really just a tiny community that probably attracted a couple trolls but not enough legit users to outvote them. I can see that getting the community creator a little upset, having their regular content look to onlookers as if it’s trash when it’s normal content, and lowering their hopes of attracting people to the community. Although hopefully people can recognize that at that small a number of people it might just be trolls and not low-quality content.

Happy with my current instance, but the urge to try out PieFed grows… would probably mean abandoning Mbin though and Mbin is already so tiny compared to Lemmy…

This number 1 mistake, as well as misplacing, bulldozing, and replacing expensive buildings is exactly how I ended up restarting my first city, 30 minutes into the game ;-;

It’s happened before in general, though I cannot remember specific instances. As for Fediverse apps, I do have one for Matrix because I think you actually cannot use that on mobile without an app. Every time I try to open a Matrix link on mobile it tells me to pick an app. For Mbin and Lemmy, I do not need an app because I’m already having a good experience on the browser. Little to no friction or complaints. I also don’t feel I need anything more, so I don’t want to sink that minimal effort into finding and trying an app. The post that came out talking about a lot of apps not displaying Markdown correctly further discourages me, as I don’t want to track it down to find which ones do, and one of the things few apps show correctly is spoiler formatting which I use.

I see it can be about accessibility and solving usability issues on the browser now, which of course will be different for different people. Thanks for discussing with me :)

Thank you for explaining!

Not sure them just defederating to stay small and to be able to handle all the reports, if I recall correctly, is the same thing as making arbitrary decisions in order to feel powerful.

In my experience Reddit had to be used with an app if not on desktop, but the Fediverse on mobile feels like the Reddit app (I’m one of the few people who never had trouble with the official app, it was functional for me, so this is not meant as an insult at all. I left and came here over the API stuff only) so I have no need to switch. Much more mobile-friendly. Using the Fediverse on desktop feels a lot like the mobile experience but wider.

Not sent to other instances? I am on Mbin and see downvotes.

On a positive note there is also less pressure to have sex you are not ready for or just do not want, less virgin-shaming, and more awareness of asexuality and people who fall under that umbrella. By the time I was a high school senior there were plenty of opportunities where I could have had sex but I just did not want it as an asexual person and people actually respected that instead of telling me I’d be lame if I didn’t, or that I had to put out for my partner.

As a person who was a high school senior in this time period I just thought those activities were something I personally would not enjoy. Not sure why these rates of teens making healthy choices is treated as a bad thing, but I have always been a bit of a goody-two-shoes who is not susceptible to wanting something more because it is forbidden. Even with the reasons in the comments about signs of things being harder for young people, I think it is still a positive outcome of an otherwise bad situation.

Also relevant: picky eater. Part of why I think I won’t enjoy these things is because I think if I put them in my mouth they’ll taste bad. I stay away from healthy food because of that, why would I make that sacrifice for things actively considered a health hazard (in the case of cigarettes and alcohol)? I’m also just not comfortable with anything messing with my brain that isn’t doctor-prescribed, and I don’t have a medical marijuana prescription. Weed smells bad to me and although sometimes taste and smell aren’t perfect predictors of each other (vanilla extract, anyone?) I think smell is 80% of taste? So I’m further disincentivized. Plus I don’t want to start liking weed and then having to manage the smell, or to like weed enough I don’t care how I smell. I am friends with someone who smokes frequently and their room smells like weed and they do too and it is quite unpleasant to me.

Also relevant: I am adopted and therefore have an unknown family medical history. Am I genetically prone to substance use disorders/addiction? No idea but I do not want to take the chance I’d turn out to be the kind of person who gets addicted to alcohol and runs over a family in a car and ruins my life, but I know my personality and I tend to be very all-or-nothing, grab onto the thing you like hard and very little moderation. Sounds like a bad combination with alcohol. I respect people who do manage to drink responsibly because I probably cannot. Mildly curious as to what kind of drunk I’d be, if I’d be fun, sad, or the alcoholic disaster I fear I’d be, but I’m not going to chance it. Besides, I’m extroverted, so I don’t feel I need it in order to talk to people at a social gathering.

All this holds true now and these were also the reasons I’d probably give you as a high school senior, with the addition of “not breaking the law and risking getting caught, thank you”.