Oh good a new way for me to get microplastics into my bloodstream.

Can we please get rid of these people who insist on remaining uninformed and then going out and spreading their ignorance by attacking others? It's contrary to the vision of this instance to allow them to continue this behavior.

In some sense the ends justify the means here, I think. There was no way of really knowing when they created this process whether it would work, but here we are. It seems to me the community is quite tolerant and generally on the same page, so I would say it works well enough.

It is a somewhat reductive statement, I'll give you that, but I think the core idea is true. Most people will go to the easiest solution. Lemmy's userbase may continue to grow for some time, but it will not reach anywhere close to the level of reddit. I think it's foolish to point to the trends from the last week and try to draw conclusions about the future, as this is clearly an extraordinary circumstance.

Do you really think the average person knows or cares about that? No, of course not. They will congregate on the most populous instance so long as it continues to support the traffic.

I haven't had any interest in FF games since the original 7, but I played the demo after I saw it on the store just for fun. I think I'm gonna buy this one.

Other than some gripes and annoyances, it's fucking fun. Closer to dark souls combat than the weird ATB stuff they've had for a while.

The writing is surprisingly okay, albeit with some cringe lines here and there and and overall trope-ey lore. Some of the exposition actually didn't feel totally out of place!

My biggest concern is about grind, as is the case with much of the series, but we'll see I guess.

I'm not familiar with Hubzilla, but it sounds like one possible solution!

The problem is nobody knows which smaller instances will stick around and which won't.

Instances won’t appear and disappear weekly.

No, that will always be happening. The only thing that will settle is that the trusted instances will become known and people will stop signing up for less trusted ones.

Yes, exactly! It's good for everyone.

It's kind of assumed they would have to pick which communities to federate with. How would you propose doing that automatically 😂