Wizened (and withering) game developer, Monster Hunter and Genshin Impact enjoyer, occasional music maker, and unapologetic leftist.

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  • Looking at it on my desktop right now, I’m seeing everything I’d expect, for both local and federated communities. Most typically lately, I’m browsing on my phone, but that’s just hitting my instance directly via mobile Firefox, not using an app, so I can’t imagine that would have meaningfully different results.

    Sounds most likely that this is just a perceptual thing where I’m not consciously realizing that communities Y and Z are posting way more frequently than community X, making me feel like I’m “missing” posts from X that are then trivially found when I go to X directly.

    I’ll keep an eye out for this a bit more consciously for the next little while and see if that’s what’s actually going on.




  • Yeah, this is me. Coming up on two decades in game dev, and I’ve always cared way more about building things that are genuinely robust and also make sense to humans, but everyone just wants “fast and cheap”, thinks documentation is a waste of time (“you can just talk to people”), doesn’t understand “tech debt” as a concept at all, and refuses to prioritize tools work because “it’s not player-facing”.

    All software is rushed software.










  • and more importantly how hard it is to find anyone and anything else once you’re there

    I find this perspective fascinating. It took me ten minutes to find two dozen Lemmy communities of interest, about 2/3 of which were on other servers than my home server. On Mastodon, it similarly took me ten minutes to follow a bunch of hashtags that sounded interesting, and it’s trivial to follow new people from those hashtags too.

    I get that “it works on my machine” is never a very good excuse for dismissing someone else’s perspective, but I struggle to see what’s so much harder about the Fediverse vs Twitter or Reddit. I guess there’s the thing with Lemmy/Kbin about opening posts from your own instance so you can properly interact with them, which is weird, sure, but there are also like half a dozen solutions for it already, and they’re only going to keep getting better with time.

    I feel like the Fediverse got a reputation for being difficult because somebody freaked out about picking a home server once, and now that reputation has become a self-justifying argument that “Fediverse is too hard” that gets parroted by people who haven’t even looked at it yet.






  • I’m one of the newer transplants from Reddit, but for the last several years I’ve only been a lurker there, because I haven’t felt like I really fit in with those communities and that culture well enough to fully engage.

    Lemmy feels different, in similar fashion to how Mastodon felt so different from Twitter when I switched over there a year so back. I haven’t looked back on Twitter, and I doubt I’ll look back on Reddit. The water’s way nicer over here, for me.

    I do think it’ll take a while for most of the disruptive newcomers to fully bounce off the Lemmy/Fediverse culture, but I also do think they will eventually bounce off it, as long as we all stick to our guns in terms of the culture we want to build, the rules with which we want to govern our communities and servers, and the social norms we want to tolerate.

    There are just going to be 1973629092 tedious arguments about defederation between here and there. 🙄



  • I was frustrated by certain aspects of how my team was run, so when that position became available, I applied for and moved into it, thinking I could make some changes that would make the team function better.

    I did make some of those changes and they have helped, but I’ve also found it really challenging to carry responsibility for delivering things that I can’t work on directly. I used to solve problems by writing code; it’s much different to solve problems by coaching people.

    I do have stronger relationships with my colleagues now, since I spend more time communicating with them vs. being head-down in code all the time, and that’s kind of nice, but I’m definitely missing the hands-on work