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I've been learning more about game development by recreating Slay the Spire in Godot.

Reddit is deteriorating by the day.

The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.

I can never say enough good things about the Godot engine.

It's the Fediverse version of YouTube using the ActivityPub protocol just like Mastodon and Lemmy.

It's funny how they always leave out all the negatives in articles like these.

Increased traffic? Time away from family? Higher gas and food bills? Quality of life?

Never covered. Just reams of text about poor landlords.

If we go to yet another corporate/tech bros entity, we're stupid.

Let's build our communities right this time and select something open-source, and federated so we don't end up in the same place in another 10 years.

Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof.

I'd encourage anyone to at least check them out.

> I have a more vibrant and more interesting mastodon feed than I ever had on twitter.

Exactly! I can comment on a post and have real engagement with someone which hasn't happened in years on Twitter.

And what does that have to do with the new changes he pushed to have his tweets be in every single users' timelines?

We've already got a replacement that's owned and administered by users, with no ads, that can't be bought and ruined by billionaires: Mastodon.

The ex-twitter employees are already running their own server: macaw.social

This is mostly an opinion piece that's critiquing issues we've only begun to solve.

Also, Elon has now shown us all the absolute danger of centralized platforms. Email and web servers are a federated system and function just fine, so I'm disinclined to believe so hand-waving about how this "wont ever work."

> But China can continue to improve the quality of life for Chinese people if they don't do anything really stupid and end up isolated like Russia.

This is extremely unlikely. Half (HALF!) of China's 1.2B people will be dead by 2050. The CCP is almost certainly doomed to fracture/fail due to this factor alone. Additionally, Xi has elevated himself to cult-leader like status and killed every person who ever brought him bad news. No nation run like that will succeed for long.

Lastly, China imports vast quantities of food and oil and has a tiny navy. They are wholly dependent on the outside world - a point that Peter explores in greater depth in his earlier books.

I'd love to see the engagement metrics over time. How many minutes are people really spending per-session on Facebook now compared to years ago? It has to be trending downward...