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Fish Id Wardrobe “We need to support other fediverse platforms”
“But other platforms haven’t gotten support in the past”
Why TF do you think I’m saying we need to support other platforms, then? We don’t need to convince Mastodon to change, because the Mastodon folks have made it very clear that they see the ecosystem as beholden to them, and not the other way around. They’re not good actors. We need something better, made by better people, and then we to convince people to use it over Mastodon.
Fish Id Wardrobe Or, you leave Mastodon behind, and try to build a better garden that attracts people away.
Fish Id Wardrobe Yeah, Mastodon kinda does what it wants, and gets away with it due to market share. It picks and chooses what it wants to implement, and struggles to play nicely with many other AP platforms.
Even just as an end user of not-Mastodon, it’s really annoying.
As for selling the Fediverse, we could do that in a more targeted manner. Identify the needs of specific groups of people, and then tell them which specific software, which specific instance is most suitable for their needs.
One of my long standing pain points with the fediverse as is is that no one seems to be able to look beyond “let’s spin up a general purpose microblogging website that exists solely to interface with all of the other general purpose microblogging websites”. The biggest promise of the fediverse is that you can have your pre-corporate internet style topic-focused community, and you can look over the fence at other things you’re interested in. This actually addresses a missing niche, while “8000 generic twitter-like fiefdoms” does not.
But if it’s not just aping the look and function of existing, generic, mass-market social media, with all of its dark patterns included, then people seem to turn their noses up at it. And I just don’t get it.
Fish Id Wardrobe “- we can’t improve how it works to make it more friendly (unless the new management at Mastodon behaves very differently than before)”
Why not? There are other fediverse projects out there. At the very least, we can look for and support ones that are trying to actually improve things.
S. John Ross I’m gonna need you to describe what, exactly, is inflationary about it. Because the only thing I’m seeing here that’s even remotely inflationary is your aggressively haughty dismissiveness.
S. John Ross The idological thing feels very real and accurate to me, it’s just that the idologies aren’t “D&D” or “Blades/Apocalypse”. From what I’ve seen, it’s “tell me how to resolve this” vs “let me decide how to resolves this”. And while this often gets broken down as “rules-light” vs “rules-heavy”, or “rulings” vs “rules”, so many people play crunchier games like D&D in the latter way (and I play PF2e in the latter way) that it doesn’t quite break down in the prescribed way.
But treating a very systematic game like Pathfinder 2 as a playground has caused me to run against the grain of that community so thoroughly that I can’t help but view it as being made up of people who don’t see tools or toolboxes, but orders and mandates. And I think those are the idologies at play here. The ideology of “high trust” tables vs “low trust” tables.
Hex Kit is good, and they have/sell add-on tile sets.
I also like Wonderdraft, which is also a one-time purchase.
This is functionally what Fellmarrow is doing in Narrative Declaration’s Kingmaker 2e actual play.
