Agreed. I’d also like to add that intelligence != wisdom != experience, and you need all three to achieve real understanding.

@PugJesus weren’'t you looking for a spot to perform baptisms?

Hi - mod of a small kbin.social mag here - @13thFloor - and a lemmy.world user. Is there anything we can do on our end to help mitigate the problem, or make it easier to flag spam that makes its way to Lemmy? I’d be more than willing to include a note to the lemmy.world admins if a spam post is deleted off of a mag I mod here- just need to know who to contact.

Side notes - Ernest (kbin.social admin) just responded on the spam issue here. The community has been actively working over here to flag and remove spam accounts (I’ve personally flagged close to 100). According to the most recent news from @ernest earlier last week, we’ve got a software update incoming, and a magazine cleanup in the works that will hopefully make an impact.

Damn, this is so good I had to translate the lyrics:

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

Somewhere there, my fiance got lost
He met the devil even though he was baptized
The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

We were walking with him for about a month
He was completely white

Like a mysterious face in the sky
The moon was white

She wove a periwinkle into his wreath
And he asked whom I loved

Oh, we walked with him for a month
He was completely white

He hugged me so tight
Although I didn’t want to
He hugged me so tight
Although I didn’t want to

Those hugs are like the claws of a beast
And was it my fault
Who hugged me in spite of that
What I didn’t want

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

The red trail leads into the forest
White snow

Somewhere there, my fiance got lost
He met the devil even though he was baptized
The red trail leads into the forest
White snow
White snow

Infected Mushroom

Zircon

Eskimo

Abandon society - yes. Commune - JFC no. Vagabond gypsy caravan? Possibly, but only if there are werewolves and mysteriously sexy tarot card casters involved.

Working fine on my end - sounds like ISP filtering or possibly a firewall setting. With an ad blocker to handle popups, you could also try g o k u dot s x - not quite the same server collection, but you might find what you’re looking for.

Loving your Mongolian metal collection - keep posting!

Lyrics to this one (machine translation from Mongolian):

The dream went back and forth along a familiar street
The loan of the eastern cape is clearly visible
I am waiting for my monthly salary
After all, it’s been six months

My poor country
It was a difficult time
My poor country
It was a difficult time

When it’s time for spring, the storm will slap you on the cheek
All cooperative stores went bankrupt and closed their doors
It’s winter time, so it’s going to be snowy
Drunkards who are not afraid of death roam the night streets

My poor country
It was a difficult time
My poor country
It was a difficult time

No worries & thanks for the suggestion.

Pretty much, although these days a lot of folks find it more convenient to have the rules in .pdf for easy access. There’s hundreds available. Here’s a listing I had posted last night on the @13thFloor magazine I run over here on kbin - happy to crosspost if you feel it fits.

Oh boy, have I got some treats in store for you…

Question - is it just video games, or are you looking for tabletop RPGs too?

Hmm - still linking to the image, although your edit text is showing. You might try removing the image.

This shit is awesome - thanks for introducing me to their music. It looks like only the image is coming through via federation, so here’s the youtube link to the video.

You can block domains on kbin, but it’s somewhat bugged right now. It appears that blocking domains can cause posting errors if you’re creating threads or pictures, including making comments invisible on threads when you’re logged in.

To access kbin’s domain view, go to kbin.social/d/[your domain here] . You’ll have an option to subscribe to or block the instance. Example:

https://kbin.social/d/beehaw.org

“When the committee held an initial hearing on broadband permitting streamlining, including a draft of the American Broadband Deployment Act, no state or local government was invited to testify.”

If you’d like to make your feelings known on this omission and the bill in general, here are the members of that committee - clicking on a rep will give you their contact information.

I buy games based on the following tier scale:

Gameplay > Performance > Price > Expected time playing > Graphics

I agree with your point in the post, especially after playing Darktide, which chucked performance out the window for fog and lighting effects. It doesn’t matter how pretty your game is if it’s rendering at 3fps.

Agreed again. If I wanted folks IRL to know what I post, I’d be on Facebook. Reddit’s value to posters was its anonymity. Without it, there’s no reason to use it over its centralized competitors in the social media space.

I totally hear you there and agree with you re: the business choices Spez made. Reddit lost a 20 year contributor when I walked away, and even if they rolled back all the changes, I won’t be returning.

I was more looking at applying your suggestions to a fresh publishing model, as your ideas intrigued me (having run a publishing forum in the days of the early internet). I want to have a space on the internet where content creators can keep ownership of their content and get adequately paid for publishing - I think properly run, it could become a vital hub for our cultural legacy (as Reddit was, albeit clumsily and destructively). The incoming revenue is the biggest challenge, which is why I focused on that element.

Some users will pay if you have a paywall, but only if you already have a substantial amount of content they want to access. This works for a search engine crawling pre-existing content, but not so well for a forum style site like Reddit, where most of the content creation is driven by engagement with other content. If you reduce the engagement rate (aka through a paywall), you’re actually reducing your incoming content in the long run (something we’re seeing on Reddit after the blackout).

I don’t know what the ultimate solution here is, but I really do like your payout concept with Monero. If I did build another publishing attempt, it’s something I’d try to implement if I could get the incoming revenue to support it.

This reduces the minuscule interest I had in replaying Paladins to a negative number. Smite’s been nothing but frustrating garbage, but I thought that with a bit of polish and a lot more character development, Paladins had promise when it came out. Starting a labor dispute to begin a practice that will degrade the overall quality of the game means it’s not worth my hard disk space to install their products - it’s clear things are only going to get worse for Hi-Rez titles from here.

Excellent points. That being said, Reddit will never pay contributors. They have never had interest in quality of the content on the platform, only it’s engagement rate - the years of publishing subs like jailbait and The_Donald speak to that. Engagement, now that they’ve got a critical mass of users and 20 years worth of content, can be maintained with bots, sockpuppet accounts, and reposts (all of which have become the course du jour for the front page and /r/all since the API revolt began)… at least until they go IPO, after which it’s not their problem anymore.

The biggest problem with online publishing is that without that critical mass of readership, it’s very difficult to become profitable enough to pay your contributors. Reddit’s never gotten to this point, even with millions of users. It’s my hope that with contributors moving off of Reddit, we’ll see new publishing models appear that utilize some of the excellent ideas you’ve outlined above. I particularly like the suggestion of using Monero as a currency to ensure anonymity.

Tying voting to currency is an interesting idea, but I think that voting should be free, as my experience running forums is that only about 10% of your viewers will care enough to vote, and maybe 10% of those choose to post actual content. Putting a paywall in front of voting will kill engagement. However, limiting the number of free votes an account gets per day, then allowing people to buy more votes with currency, and earn currency for posting content could work very well if run correctly. The trick is balancing the actual profit you make off of the contribution with the need to pay your contributors, and here it becomes a question of determining the proper margins and payouts.

The other problem is that the only real revenue source outside of the users of the site is going to be Google Adwords or a similar platform (unless you go for ancillary streams of revenue, like attaching an e-commerce store to the site). If you charge for access to the content, you’re killing your engagement. I haven’t used Adwords for awhile now, but when I did the payouts were absolutely abysmal (like less than a penny per click). They were so bad that it wasn’t even worth dedicating the visual real estate to put up the ads.

Ultimately, this is the same challenge traditional publishing has had for a long time. It’s generally unprofitable unless you have a runaway hit or ancillary streams of revenue (like syndication deals with other media types) - most of the actual content almost never makes money, which is why so much of our traditional media is paid for by advertising and subsequently controlled by corporate interests.