Hello from RetroLemmy! Always fun to see a new platform join in

If by “this” you mean https://piefed.social/

It has nothing to do with lemmy.world completely different people

This is quite a turn of events. Glad to have you joining us.

My concern isn’t mainly who can see vote records. It’s that votes can influence which posts and comments people see.

Set your default sorting to “New Comments”, which is identical to how forums do it, ignoring votes entirely.

You can also disable downvoting if you wish.

I’m not exactly sure how Lemmy calculates scores or how much they affect visibility

I’m pretty sure Lemmy doesn’t consider downvotes beyond 3. Also voting doesn’t affect visibility, just sorting.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/ca5193d171987f19dc0891a225b9d0609b962a9d/migrations/2023-10-23-184941_hot_rank_greatest_fix/up.sql#L17

So the score can’t be downvoted to extreme negative sorting, there’s a limit.

Users can choose how votes factor into their feeds, and disabling downvotes locally won’t stop other instances from using their own votes.

Sort of. If the post/comment comes from one of your users and you have downvotes disabled, then your server will decline the downvotes, so other instances won’t see those declined downvotes.

If you still want to make changes you could consider making pull requests for additional config options, or keeping a soft fork

Beehaw too

Sometimes it can be fun to mess around. In Crysis 1 I used cheats to make myself super strong, I would punch people and they would go flying, it was great.

But then I increased the strength higher and when I punched someone I would die for some reason. I realized if I backed away while punching I would survive. Turns out the physics of the game, with the enemy ragdolling, actually calculated that the enemy’s legs would swing up and kick me and that’s what was killing me.

It’s SATA? You could just plug it into your normal Linux computer (use a Linux live boot if you need to, do not risk it with Windows due to viruses, don’t even mount the drive) and wipe it from your newer computer.

But from what I’ve seen, most people that buy these retro computers are gonna put an SSD in there anyways.

Technically the default Lemmy UI does hide the dupes, although it may still be buggy. Probably worth revisiting this once v1.0 launches. I’m not sure which apps do and don’t do that though.

PieFed pretty much does that

I love this movie

You realize Reddit bans people too, right? The only difference between Reddit banning people and Lemmy.world banning people, is that Lemmy is transparent about it and gives you choices about it. On Reddit when someone gets banned they’re gone, there is no more so-called “completeness”, it’s just an illusion. But Lemmy has no such issue because you can choose who your admins are, you can join an instance that didn’t ban them.

Imagine if Reddit bans your friend, not as easy to ignore as Reddit banning a stranger, they’re gone and you have to leave Reddit entirely. On Lemmy if lemmy.world bans your friend, you can both just change which Lemmy instance you use to something more agreeable like https://lemmy.zip/

But I realize you’re probably only here to advertise your own forum. You’ve had 7 posts in the past month? And only 3 comments total? Just join the Fediverse! Lemmy, PieFed, and Mbin are open source, use one of them for your server and you’ll instantly have an active userbase of over 40k. If you use Mbin (or PieFed to a lesser extent) then it also brings access to microblog posts which means many more users linked in. And then you can allow everyone and not ban anyone.

I see a few “deleted” badges on your forums, I’m now upset that I can’t access ALL of the content!

the other thing is the release cycle, if you’re constantly fighting that then maybe switch distros

maybe this community just needs more subscribers, it’s only at 913, we could try posting it to !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

This is pretty much already the community for it.

Try suggesting your obscure games community here https://lemmy.zip/post/73962307

People might let you know that they are interested, but not that many people subscribe to !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

Idk if all of these are obscure enough lol

• Battleblock Theater - all the level songs
• Phantasy Star Universe - Mizuraki C.D.
• Panzer Dragoon Saga - Premonition of War
• Ironsword Wizards & Warriors II - Stage Theme 02
• Anachronox - Bricks, Normal 1.0
• The 13th Doll - Path 2 6 Points
• Shivers - The Secret Hall
• Mystic Towers - Atmosphere 3
• Anticipation - Yellow Puzzle (the songs are really short but the way they flow with the game is good, so I linked a gameplay video)

would golf tournaments be improved if the ball had a strong magnetic attraction to the hole? lol I don’t think so

I’d rather the tournaments banned aim assist

It’s probably supposed to mean 20+ years old. But next year IDK if I’ll be able to call Mass Effect and Crysis “retro games”

yea it’s awful but they’re used to it lol

first they came for 3rd party apps, and I did not switch because I did not use 3rd party apps

then they came for anonymous users, and I did not switch because I’m always logged in…

I left a bunch of replies about Lemmy/PieFed, but usually it doesn’t work. It’s not easy to change peoples’ minds.