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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • On the other hand, since Lemmy is made up of a much smaller userbase, I’ve had a lot of success with just blocking users. When it’s one user with 100 comments, it’s a lot easier to solve the issue with the tools available to you as a user than on Reddit where you’re more likely to have 100 different people making 1-3 comments each spouting blind rhetoric/useless exaggeration/unfunny meme responses. It’s not big enough for people to bother too much with alt accounts or brigading yet either.

    I do my best to stay away from posts with topics likely to attract that sort of crowd too.

    In general while it’s not as good as I hoped for, I find Lemmy/fediverse a hell of a lot better than what I left. People are going to be assholes wherever they think they can get away with it, and the best response is to starve them of attention.









  • Probably over a decade ago they did a cross promotion with TF2 when TF2 was doing that sort of thing for unlocking exclusive hats.

    If I remember right… You got some extra starting gear for being a TF2 player, had to play up through a certain point in the starting quests or for a few hours, and then you got the default starter Spiral Knight helmet as a hat for TF2. I planned on just doing the minimum and getting back to PUTTIN A DISPENSER HERE, but I didn’t end up going back to TF2 that night. That said, I think I only played Spiral Knights once or twice more. Couldn’t even get my TF2 playing friends to join me on it just to get them the hat.




  • I hate to say it but it might be worth looking for a job outside the games industry. It’s openly known that most gaming companies get away with terrible working conditions and employee treatment. They get away with it because there’s a revolving door of people willing to put up with shit treatment so they can say they got a job in the industry.

    It’s fine if that matters to you, but you have to decide how much it matters and stick to your line in the sand. Personally I’d rather work something less interesting and have better pay and reasonable work/life balance.