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Hi! What's your favorite videogame?
Do you have any subject you're super interested in and could talk about for 2 hours with no prep?
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse? What are your hobbies?
(Answer as many or as few of those as you want but pls pick at least one :3)
Hi! What's your favorite videogame?
Fallout New Vegas, followed by GTA V. I really liked Baldur's Gate 3 so far, but I'm probably going to play a lot more sporadically during the semester.
Do you have any subject you're super interested in and could talk about for 2 hours with no prep?
Audio engineering, music, control theory, and math, specifically linear systems, integral transforms, and calculus in general.
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse?
We got a good thing going here. I'm a bit concerned about the Meta federation stuff, more so for microblogging services than the threadiverse, but I think we'll tank it. I really hope that Peertube takes off.
What are your hobbies?
Guitar, audio mixing, audio programming π, video games, watching gaming videos, engaging with people on Lemmy, cooking, and reading math and physics textbooks.
Yeah I'm into weird shit, but not the fun kind of weird.
Everything is fun to someone! It's mathematically infeasible that you could be the only one in the world with any particular interest!
Though, yeah, finding other people with the same interest is definitely easier if you're into things that are clearly mainstream.
Please talk my ear off about control theory. There has got to be a better way to get motors to stay put than beating my head against the brick wall that is PID tuning parameters trying to find a value of I that doesn't make the oscillation progressively worse as time goes on
I hope this isn't off topic, but I really like the fediverse I think. I don't like the fact there's no real "like button"? I assume this is something people appreciate about it, but I just want to show my appreciation/support/interest in a toot. I don't want somebody to feel like they're calling into the void.
Commenting despite having nothing to say doesn't feel comfortable to me.
I don't think I've come across a server without upvotes, though some disable downvotes. That said, the vote tally means less to me than someone saying "that's neat, thanks for sharing!", and that definitely adds to the vibe as well as the conversation. I encourage you to do that, to the level you're comfortable with
I was referring to Mastodon, didn't even think about Lemmy π
Well u do kinda have the upvote functionality, no? I'll be honest.... Seeing upvotes on some weird ass shitpost comment that I made does make me feel a little giddy inside hehe. So like.... If u want to show appreciation, the upvote does work for me at least!
I was referring to Mastodon, didn't even think about Lemmy π
i like uhh uhmm drg and many more but that's the main one
i dunno if i have hobbies i think i like playing video games and drinking water
i do not have a subject to talk about for 2 hours :(
i still don't understand the fediverse
sorry for not being OP
On a scale from 1 to 10 how are you feeling about rogue core
in theory i'm happy but in practice i'm going to need to wait like actually 3 years to get the chance to buy it
Hi! What's your favorite videogame?
I really want to get good at PUBG. Unfortunately, I don't have friends who play the game (plus I don't have much time either :( )
Do you have any subject you're super interested in and could talk about for 2 hours with no prep?
Heck yeah!!! I could talk for hours about the perfect (ie., the closest to perfection) political system of governance and how it could be achieved and so on.
What are your thoughts on the Fediverse?
Is THE future of social media. However, it will have to evolve beyond the donation based model.
What are your hobbies?
Anything star wars baybeee
what is the political thing
Hey mate, so sorry for not seeing this before. I responded to this in a response to another commentator who asked the same thing.
I could talk for hours about the perfect political system and how we could conceivably get there
Please, please do
Hehe sure! Just be informed that I am not mentioning a great many details here (cuz I have a headache rn because of a cold lol). But here's the general idea: A constitutional direct democratic institution that is an alliance between worker coops around the world that meet certain conditions. The state of politics in the representative democracies around the world is such- whoever can bid more money for a politician effectively wins an election. The objective of the said alliance would be to thus either outbid the other capitalists/ make the other capitalists go broke/ run alliance candidates. Running alliance candidates would be at much much later stages, which makes us have the first two options: either get more money, or make the others go broke.
The objective of the alliance in the short term would thus be to act as a malevolent entity for any competing businesses while being absolutely benevolent for its own workers/customers. As all alliance businesses (or projects as I call them, as many would be non profit to gut the for profit competitors) are worker coops, they would by definition be much better workplaces than their competitors. Also, compulsory open sourced licensing for all these project + wealth caps for both, individuals and projects would ensure a flourishing competition within, thus making the alliance very competitive. The obvious starting point for such alliance projects would be software. The biggest resource that open sourced software requires is time. We have seen that obtaining this resource is not that difficult (think of all open sourced projects in existence). Now think of what could happen if all these projects were integrated into one giant ecosystem. With a little bit of planning and objective setting, we already have a very very large starting point. I myself am working on such a project that combines lemmy and a few more open sourced projects and packages them into an absolutely beautiful frontend. This would be for profit without running ads and without charging users for using the software. I'm hoping to get the lemmy part of the MVP ready before year end.
Also, the entire constitution too uses a very interesting approach for additions/deletions/law making etc. I wish I could go into more detail about it, but it would take too much time right now. Trust me, I am working on a proper writeup for this (although I'm focusing more on the software project that I mentioned earlier). But in short, the constitution revolves around two postulates (described very roughly here): 1) All "experiments" (any governmental policy/law would be called an experiment) must increase an "individual's" "freedom to have freedoms" to exist. 2) Definitions of the highlighted words above.
Basically, the alliance's constitution would work around a central, very important principle of the "freedom to have freedoms". In this context, "freedom" would be the probability of an individual to do a given act. Let's say my "freedom to eat a cookie". In the conditions that I am in, what is the probability of me successfully eating a cookie? That would be the "freedom of eating a cookie". However, many different freedoms clash with each other. For instance, my "freedom to kill children" clashes with the "freedom to stay alive". How does the constitution decide which freedom weighs more? If you noticed, we are getting into ethics now. But which ethical framework is right? Morality unfortunately is not objective (no measurable scientific constant in the universe showcasing the objectivity of morality). What we do we do now? The answer is to set one "freedom" as the basic standard of measure. The first postulate establishes this freedom to be the "freedom to have freedoms". The weightage of all freedoms would be decided on what percentage of an impact they have on the freedom to have freedoms. For instance, if I kill someone, my "freedom to commit murder" would have say a -0.99 impact on the "freedom to have freedoms", as 0.99 people would see the "freedom to live" as equivalent with the "freedom to have freedoms". Now, how would my "freedom to drink and drive" factor in with all this? Well, perhaps the "freedom to drink and drive" would statistically have a +0.2 equivalence with the "freedom to commit murder". This in turn has a 0.2*(-0.9) impact on the freedom to have freedoms. This is how the government would decide which freedom is more important.
"Experiments" would be actions taken by the government to increase an individual's freedom to have freedoms. These actions. ie., the government's freedom to do the given actions would need to have a positive experimental effect on the average individual to justify their existence. To start a new experiment, the legislation would have to promise a certain positive impact (which would be a number) within a given timeline. If this experiment fails to meet the promised impact, it would automatically go back to voting. Again, it is a bit more complicated than this, but this is kinda the gist of it.
Then, how do we define "individuals"? Humans? Aliens? What kind of creatures can be "individuals?". Do transhuman spiders count as individuals? Do they have rights? Do anthropomorphic animals (you'll definitely see this phenomenon when the tech becomes available) get to vote? What about AI that claims to be sentient? I've kinda tried to provide a definition for this by tying it up with the freedom to have freedoms, by comparing the given individual's freedom graph with the alliance's already existing freedom graph. Equivalence above a certain decided limit would mean that they are an "individual".
The alliance would have four main branches (remember, this is not a postulate now, but an experiment itself):
Anyways, gotta go now. Sorry if this is badly written, as I had to gloss over MAAAANY important topics like how a direct democratic legislative would pass sooooo many bills, how it wouldn't be a bureaucratic nightmare, why we need any of this, etc. Hope you have a good one! :)
favorite game is geometry dash
fediverse have nice culture
for hobby
am hab many related hobbies
do you want full list
if you'd he willing to share it with me
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Oh cool! I'm a programmer too. What projects have you been working on lately?
am make program that gives user 5 events to put in order
We should make our own server
And so the cycle continues
Let's be awkward together. Sure, why not.
With blackjack and hookers
Could try revolt.chat. I would like to say element, but that has no chat
do you mean element.io (the web client for MatrixChat) or something else?
I get intimidated by the fact that usually these folks have established communities with regular known chatters with in jokes and whatnot and now some new weirdo is trying to come in
That's why I'm so proud of the community I made on my server. I've heard from a lot of people that they just sorta.. immediately felt included despite there being almost 200 people. I've also had people tell me that they don't really feel like I'm some figure they need to watch out for, unlike a lot of server owners. It's a nice thing to hear
this is a personal attack
Been there 2 much
Same. It doesn't help that I don't like discord.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it π
I have never related so much to an image.
4 servers and counting... I feel you ):
I'm in at least a dozen of them, sometimes I start to talk with people there, but usually I don't. I need to be somehow reintroduced to online socialization, as after all my old circles either massively transformed or fell apart due to tankie infiltration, I even forgot that, and I'm quite autistic to begin with.
Back when I was into forums, being active and contributing usually turned into being accepted in the community. With these Discord's, I've been ignored and overlooked every time.
Being on the spectrum doesn't help... It's like you have to learn how to communicate all over again.
Or when you actively engage in conversations and other people on the server do not.
I love to go into these situations and soon as there's an ongoing convo with, "Howdy, howdy!" in a big and friendly tone.
It is a great ice breaker. And I'm glad my grandmother taught me this when she recognized how shy/awkward I am.
Hope it's as useful to you as it is to me.
Try playing some tf2 and chat with the others, and maybe someone will send you a friends request if you have a good vibe. Worked for me, actually met my bf of 3 years like that
Relatable... I've been in this situation for a long time
I'd suggest to try joining conversations regardless. I know it's easier said than done, but I think it's still worth at least trying. I've been in a server and I've said something every now and then... then a bit more often... eventually I did take part in a conversation... after a while again... and again... all of this took months and I still struggle with anxiety but along the way I made a few friends in that server. And I too didn't think I would be able to actually do it
Thereβs a top comment here being kind and welcoming but Iβm concerned about overburdening the person with responses after many other people have answered.
Similarly, itβs difficult in discord servers to provide some comment of substance (sometimes a find a right moment, post, and disappear for months lol), and talking without substance feels weird.
Have you tried to Viossa server? They're very nice