It’s the next evolution of planned obsolescence - it just doesn’t work as soon as you start to use it.

A lot of those issues of ‘multiple primaries’ can be resolved with intelligent data types and actions. That is, if we have a notion of how the data is organized, a lot of decisions can be made a priori. Ones that can’t can be read-only during a split.

Comment groups are mergeable sets. Any unique comment is a valid comment.

For any individual comment, any tombstone causes a comment to be unseeable (and ideally be deleted). Any edits are latest-wins.

A lot can be sorted out that way - enough to be usable. Some databases even support that on a db level.

Meh. Most of the top comments are pretty reasonable.

fwiw, I’m now pretty darn happy with Linux and gaming. Granted, I use Steam, so there’s that.

There are issues sometimes, but I just keep a copy of windows around for windows-only things. Generally, Linux “just works” for me, but I’ve also learned to just skip it when something requires too much involvement to get working.

Times change, and people are slow. ‘Colored people’ used to be the most PC, now it’s an insult. Because it could, in any old fart’s brain, be either the most PC thing or an insult, you never know if the person is doing so intentionally or not, which sucks because:

• if someone uses it unintentionally and people jump on them, that just makes them bitter
• someone who is racist can use not knowing as a smoke screen
• people who are really “with it” on social issues can also be quick to blame, and low on tolerance, and high on trauma or virtue signaling.

…the divide just grows until people resolve it inside themselves.

I think this might be interesting:

• permit separate, low-traffic, highly rate-limited, auth-only servers. They would be strictly rate-limited and only accept connections from whitelisted partner servers, because they only handle auth.
• any partner server can authenticate a user and handle content for the server/auth-server pair, but only does so under certain conditions (determined by the partner - all the time, when ping api call > n seconds, or manually, for example)
• user@lemmy.world can’t log in, so the client tries the list of partnered servers. user succeeds at lemmy.partner.net.
• user@lemmy.world@partner.net says… ‘…something’ and all other servers accept it as being from user@lemmy.world
• lemmy.world recovers, and claims all of the @lemmy.world@partner.net posts. Partners then forget the extra stuff they’ve been hosting.

Be careful not to cross that line of request vs desperation.

Like on YouTube - A tasteful “don’t forget to like and subscribe” is fine, but mentioning it multiple times during a video is just increasingly demanding or cringe.

Proper instruction.

Likewise.

Is liftoff homegrown?

Stellaris. Extremely long games, a lot to learn… …and they change it. Mechanics that worked before stop working. The bad parts are added to same become a DLC, the good parts disappear or are algal paved in DLC. Overall, it just doesn’t feel worth it.