Mastodon has local and global feeds, and has for years. Did you just sit in your home feed and wonder where all the stuff you haven't subscribed to was?
There's no way to fight them on platforms where they are welcomed by the platform itself. Bluesky doesn't want to moderate its platform, so there is no fighting the Nazis there.
Doesn't matter who the tax is levied against. All costs will be passed on to the buyer. They should be familiar with this idea. It's the Republican's key talking point against business taxes.
The thing is, we've seen what the working class wants: Not concrete policy that will help them, but to have their feelings of struggle, outrage, and anger acknowledged and reflected back to them.
The Democrats could have radical pro-worker, pro-working-class reforms in their policy platform, but if what they're broadcasting is "things are great" energy, or "there are bigger fish to fry" energy, then they're going to get ignored.
The Democrat's talking points have focused on the health of American institutions. That's the thing they've repeatedly signalled is most important to them.
It's not what's most important to most households. It's actually pretty far removed from the top of their lists of concerns.
She would have won primaries this time around, though. While conservatives primarily believe in the "right people for the job" (where "right people" here is defined by the social hierarchy), liberals believe in the "right way to do things". And the "right way" here would have been to give the VP her free pass at the general election.
But it's so clear that this campaign was run badly, too. They had all of the momentum coming out of the summer, and it just evaporated in September. You could feel it just as surely as you could feel the seasons change. It's still blowing my mind how they managed to drown themselves.
Something something accusation something something confession. Someone should probably keep an eye on this one.
There will be a branch of government telling them what to do. It will just be the courts, as they're sued into oblivion by IP rights holders.
Well, who's going to hold them responsible, really?
Heaven forbid someone point out the reasons things suck and the ways we could do thibgs different, even if you know no one's going to change.
Better to just shrug everything off and tell folks "that's life, get used to it", right? That does a lot of good!
Over on the 2e subreddit, u/EzekieruYT let everyone know that they'd stumbled across a pre-launch Kickstarter project called Pathfinder: Dragon's Demand. Speculation swirled for a bit before former Paizo Marketing Director Aaron Shanks chimed in to quietly announce the title, and confirm that it's being built on the 2e ruleset.
No details have been announced yet, and the studio behind it doesn't have a deep catalogue, so who knows what it'll actually look like in the end. People are getting hyped for PaizoCon, though.
u/AvtrSpirit over on Reddit has released some interesting homebrew rules for defeat, Hero Points, and martial attrition using the Wounded condition. I thought they were worth spreading around some.
The comments on Hero Points in particular made me realize that many tables are much more stingy with HPs than I would have expected. Players love Hero Points. Are y'all not just handing them out like candy?
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1cbjw8c/heroic_defeat_variant_v2_fewer_rules_all_feedback/
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1cn50gc/heroic_variant_part_2_antifrustration_mechanics/
The lessons from Twitter are clear: most people will not leave bad social media without a better replacement. They're attached to their history, and attached to their routine. It getting worse does not change that.
Mastodon didn't scratch the Twitter users' itches, and it doesn't look like Lemmy will scratch Reddit users'. These aren[t the people that populated the Internet 20 years ago.
They're the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.
It's time to stop focusing on whether Reddit succeeds or fails. They're not going to fail. Instead, it's time to make an internet of niches again, for ourselves, without the Twitter and Reddit users.
It's core to Hbomberguy's video, really. The guy tried to make himself the gay YouTuber by ripping off other queer content producers, and as a persecuted community that's had to deal with a forever of social erasure, that's a whole lot extra shitty.
Uh, probably the default web interface. And Masto servers still lack quite a bit of functionality found on other fedi services.