The UK has also had multiple unelected prime ministers due to the way that the parliamentary system works.

That’s… not any indicator democracy is “on the wane”. In most Western European countries we don’t directly vote for the one man/woman, we vote for MPs because the legislative power is in the hands of the Parliament. As long as the Parliament is made of elected MPs then democracy is working just fine.

Democracy is working just fine in China according to people who live there.

Lmao, what? You can’t be serious.

Wait, are you serious?!

tbh I like W10, I grew up with 98 but the slight UI modifications of 10 (like the expanded and customizable start menu) felt necessary to me.

W11 however… that’s a pile of shit as it is very clear it aims to be pretty to casual users more than it aims to be useful and streamlined.

To be honest according to your own data that doesn’t seem good for Lemmy. Two huge instances who make up almost 30% of all Lemmy users aren’t federated anymore, it seems to me it’s a pretty big deal for Lemmy.

Dude, I’m using Jerboa and the NSFW pics are totally blurred out…

Yes but you’d get fat first.

The dreams in which I’m dying…

to be honest YouTube has great content because of the video length allowed. You can find all sorts of tutorials on pretty much anything. Instagram and TikTok, on the other hand, fit your description much better.

there isn’t another, and while Jerboa is in alpha the current exodus is bringing new developers to the project

non so quanto il pubblico mainstream possa interessarsi a Reddit

I cambiamenti dell’app e l’appiattimento delle community vanno proprio in quella direzione. Reddit sta cercando di rendere l’app sempre più simile a quella di un social tradizionale e sempre più lontana da ciò che reddit è sempre stato proprio per attirare quel tipo di pubblico. Il sito desktop non ha nessuna rilevanza, tanto lo sappiamo tutti che il mainstream si cattura con le app - ed ecco perché avevano bisogno di spazzare via quelle di terze parti.

Se vogliono provare a fare concorrenza a Instagram e TikTok

Non “concorrenza”. Nemmeno i capoccia di reddit possono ambire a qualcosa di così esagerato. Ma vogliono catturare quel pubblico per portarlo anche su reddit. Idealmente vorrebbero che tutti quelli che scrollano TikTok dopo un po’ aprano anche l’app di reddit per vedere cosa si dice e partecipare. E magari - per alcuni - apprezzare il fatto che su reddit puoi scegliere una tua tipologia di video da guardare (in base al sub in cui sei) senza sottostare al 100% all’algoritmo che decide cosa devi vedere.

not on Jerboa it doesn’t :(

that’s how strikes work, you know

credo che dell’appiattimento delle community a reddit freghi meno di zero. Con la IPO dovranno aumentare a dismisura i revenue da ads e questo potranno farlo andando ad attirare il pubblico mainstream, quello su Instagram e TikTok, non hanno alcun interesse a coltivare il valore aggiunto di community per pochi, anzi.

damn, I’m absolutely with you on BOTW. Steel swords breaking within 10 uses is ridiculous

One of my first interactions with an in-game fantasy computer GUI was Final Fantasy VIII. You had this newsletter you could read on the Balamb Garden’s computers, or take the SeeD exams to improve your grade. Was really neato.

NA is great because of the characters. They’re extremely well fleshed out and undergo a serious growth during the game events. I think that if you don’t care about the characters then it’s not worth playing. Plot and combat are accessories to the character developments.

Everyone likes to hate on Ubisoft but as far as open worlds go, it’s difficult to find more content-filled ow than Immortals and AC Valhalla. There are actually so many, many things to do around every corner it can get very tiring. Puzzles, subquests, races, dungeons, unique enemies… everywhere.

How is the story lame? It’s one of the most original stories I’ve ever seen in a videogame.

I agree about Skyrim. The entire world feels dead, the npcs are lifeless. It’s really hard for me to feel the world and the story. The Witcher 3 came out only 4 years later and it’s several orders of magnitude better to me.

well I’m Italian and I think we all see the flaws in our own language. Italian for example is easy to pronounce but has a crazily difficult grammar. English on the other hand has a very easy grammar but an incredibly difficult pronunciation to the point where you have to learn how each single word is pronounced (or spelled) because there are no phonetic rules. French has a bit of both, I guess.