It works.

Those two should not be counted in the same category.

Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, “they caught a case of child labor.”

Came looking for this comment and was not disappointed.

Technically, nothing.

In practice, who do you know that’s using it and doesn’t run Arch, by the way?

My point isn’t that IRC/XMPP aren’t technically capable.

It’s that they’re not designed for non-technical users.

I want corporate social media to die. Mastodon and Piefed are far from killing the beast, but they’ve made the more progress than most projects have seen in a long time.

I want corporate messaging to die. Matrix is far from killing the beast, but for a little while, at least it was trying.

I wouldn’t mind going back to IRC roots if it could be made more user friendly and integrate voice and video chat.

Good UX/UI goes a long way to make it so non-technical people can join and strengthen the network.

Damn. That sucks. (Edit: Referring to the comments saying Matrix is dead and dying.)

I get that IRC and XMPP are more stable and built around federation from the ground up, but… they’re not Discord replacements.

That was IMHO, the point of Matrix/Element.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but a significant part of a network’s resilience is the number of nodes and users.

Without a glowup or some kind of repackaging, IRC/XMPP are doomed to stay niche.

I smell survivorship bias.

I have a 20% hit rate on this (literally 1 out of 5). It was okay; we caught up, chatted for a couple of weeks and then realized there wasn’t much left to go on.

If I could do it all over again, I wouldn’t.

People ask those questions here because it’s not obvious where else they should ask those questions.

In my opinion, Lemmy doesn’t have enough traffic to be hostile to lost Redditors Lemmings.

We can always redirect people to appropriate communities (assuming they exist and are active), and once we hit a certain critical mass the problem will go away on its own.

There’s already the Russian internet and the Chinese internet.

All the “save the children” acts that seem to be going around will probably just accelerate it.

What happens if you put the food bowl on the roomba?

This was the game that made me realize I prefer story over infinite sandbox games.

Even after it started getting praise due to all the updates, it just felt… empty every time I went back.

How else would you interpret OP’s question?

I wish ToS;dr (Terms of Service; Didn’t Read) had a changelog for when companies made changes.

Don’t hear that take very often. Almost everyone is too busy glazing it. I feel that way about Sea of Stars.

What didn’t work for you in Clair Obscur?

You asked a legitimate question, and I provided three sources describing the phenomenon.

Just because you haven’t experienced it personally (or met people who have) doesn’t mean it’s not real, either.

Plenty of people haven’t met a gay or trans person in their life, but that doesn’t mean that they don’t exist or that issues they face should be dismissed out of hand.

Dismissing the question doesn’t add to the conversation. If you don’t want to engage with the question, that’s fine. Don’t comment. Just downvote and move on.

Blue Bubbles vs Green Bubbles: Explained!

The “Blue” vs. “Green” Bubble War is Insane.

I suddenly want to see a slav who tries to squat but fails. Like, do you get your citizenship revoked?

If pliers didn’t do the job, I would cut them at the base and sand them down to be smooth and flush with the wood.

I actually like that the right word is as basic as poser.

They’d like to have a special name, but they’re literally just a bog-standard poser.