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Same here, though I do wonder how they will keep us interested, as they have deliberately not shown any combat. Not even stardew valley went as far removing combat from gameplay loop.
Thanks everyone for participating in the giveaway! The giveaway is now closed, I hope you all enjoy the reading. :) As the number of participants was around the expected, I have sent you all a copy of the book!
Since I was a kid, I was obsessed with computers, technology, and books. Science fiction books, palpable technologies with surreal events, were my favorite addiction. I grew up drinking from this source, dreaming of writing my own stories one day. But growing up on the periphery I quickly came to understand it was not more than a dream, especially in Brazil. So, I was thrown into the nearest lane, jumping from technical support to software engineer.
Years flew by, and in the rush of day-to-day life, I ended up forgetting the essence that propelled me down this path. Goals, projects, codes, stress... blah, blah, blah. You know the deal, you took it too. However, after several (miracle) therapy sessions, I decided it was time to take a break from the command prompt and dive into Word. And, after many, many months, liters of coffee, a herniated disc, and a hefty dosage of ibuprofen, voilà, a book was born!
It is a cyberpunk story that speaks about work dehumanization, communities vs corporations and kicking the corporative ass.
Coincidetally, or not, the story connects with what we have experienced with Reddit and Lemmy, so I understood it would be fitting to conduct the book's giveaway on the Fediverse only!
Ghost Trigger is available on Kindle and Paperback, as well as other digital formats. It's a dive into passion, at the cost of a beer, and about three hours of your life.
I will be conducting the giveaway of 10 copies, in either:
To participate, just comment the format you would like to receive!
The giveaway will begin tomorrow, and winners will be chosen randomly.
I think the plan should be bracing for impact, and how to deal with the after-effect. Because let's be honest, we are in a late stage capitalism, and Meta megacorp will get what it wants.
I don't currently see it spilling it's poison to Lemmy/kbin. I'm hopeful rather, but I may be misunderstanding how the fediverse works.
But for mastodon, I would say the outcome is a segregation, as it's safe to assume that communities that integrate wirh Meta will be consumed. Unfortunately that likely means starting from scratch, with a even nichier community, as far as I can see. Not exactly from nothing, but content loss will be inevitable, which is the Fediverse greatest weakness imho.
Oh, don't for a second think we have really gone too far from burning on crosses!
I'm very divided with 1984. It's context is so massively anti-communist, yet it ironically portrayed much of the authoritarianism we see today in capitalist countries. So much so that when I first read it in my teens, it didn't cross my mind that he was taking shots at Russia! I find it to be one of those few things that are better when you interpret it wrong.
Used to be a fan of Louis back on my days of computer repair shop. Nice to see he is still going strong!
But yeah, the writing on the wall is clear, and it's not just Reddit. Imho, this situation emphasizes the importance of smaller, connected communities rather than massive social media platforms. We came to love massive social networks, but didn't realize the consequences of getting lost in the crowd and becoming mere data points for profit. Small, connected communities offer a more personal and respectful alternative.
What we have here with the Fediverse is a gold mine. Picture 00's phpbb forums, but all with access to each other. That just sound like a good time to me. It's rough around the edges, sure, but it's our own corner of web.
I think preservation is happening, the issue lies in accessibility. Projects like Archive.org are the public ones, but it is certain that private organizations are doing the same, just not making it public.
This is also something that is my biggest worry about the Fediverse. It has tools to deal with it, but they are self-contained. No search engine is crawling the Fediverse as far as I've looked, and no initiative to archive, index and overall make the content of the Fediverse accessible is currently in place, and that's a big risk. I'm sure we will soon be seeing loss of information for this reason, if not already happened.
This is the gist of it. It will happen again, and again, and again. After they go public, every quarter that they need to come up with some shenanigans to satisfy shareholders, it will happen again. Eventually, either a new thing will come up and start it all over again, or we will be mostly decentralized.
Lemmy was not created last week, man. All you see here today already existed and was running when spez hit the fan.
In that sense, part of what attracts me to this is a bit of the barrier to entry. I find it enticing, it reminds me of the good old days, where you had to earn your way in, in a sense. Of course that's silly old man talk, because honestly, all you have to do is select any random site and sign up.
Lemmy.world, Lemmy.ml, it all comes down to the same thing. This "barrier" to entry is almost fictitious, and I feel that's the ideal type of barrier.
I have always been a lurker on reddit and most social media, but Lemmy does make me want to contribute with posting and commenting.
One thing I miss and intend to build as I get more time is indexes and big posts I saw in subreddits of my interest, it would be a good thing to start migrating to Lemmy, for example.
The main reason is that although the concessions we make may seem ever so insignificant, they pile up and dettach you from what you were looking for in the first place. You barely see your acquaintances posts on instagram or facebook anymore. Twitter is on it's way to become a cesspool. Every new Reddit "feature" just makes the experience worse. It won't be long for those platforms to all converge into a big mind grinder for propaganda.
In fediverse there is no valuation seeking to ruin things, and there won't be for the foreseeable future, so it's good ground to build upon, it's just good sense.
Take the content problem for example. You can think of that as an opportunity to be the content you want to see.
It all the depends on the how and the what.
First of all, if the virtual reality is able to replicate physical sensation indistinguishably from the physical world, it's not virtual, then, is it? Then it's just alternative reality. If that was the case, the only dilemma would be the implications to the physical world. Will your body still exist, or are we talking San Junipero here?
As long as there are implications to the real world, then I believe a significant percentage of people will not abandon it, because of empathy.
I personally would only live an alternative reality if there was no one I love back in the real world anymore, or if I were to die.
As for virtual reality in the realm of possibilities, there will always be something missing, as addictive as it may be, so there will always be something to bring you back to reality
As for just trying it, hell yeah! As long as there are no negative consequences physically that I know of before hand.