"I think I saw it down there, lemme take another look."
johnpeters42
joined 2 years ago
Yeah, the argument for ditching Lemmy entirely is "these are the devs themselves, even by using other instances you're indirectly promoting them". The counterargument is "the more instances that don't fit their style, the more you're diluting said style".
Compare/contrast e.g. Mastodon and its default instance (mastodon.social, iirc):
- There are a lot more Mastodon instances than Lemmy instances
- Some of them are more obviously problematic than m.s (e.g. Truth Social)
- ISTR criticism of m.s being lower-key on its own, like "too big, stuff lost in shuffle" and/or "too slow to defed obviously problematic instances"
There are some vague approximations, at least. My Time at Portia (for people who like crafting way too much), Coral Island (but at last count it was still an obvious beta).
Coral Island (among several others) also suffers from "a bunch of these NPCs are hard to tell apart at gameplay speed". Sure, with SDV you still have to learn where places and people are, but you can pretty much figure out the surface personality of (say) Alex or Sebastian or Elliott or Haley or Emily or Abigail the moment you see them.