I think the issue is that games are games; an example that springs to mind is Caves of Qud’s Markov-chain generated books. I don’t mind them, but once I realized what they were, I stopped reading them. Unless it’s written by a developer, it doesn’t matter. They might as well be empty, unopenable items, like books from Dwarf Fortress where they get a description of what is inside but not any text from the passage.

Even random dialogue is interesting in games not only to “immerse” the player, but to receive messages and information from the developers; if they are randomly generated, they have no purpose. The game would only be improved by their absence.

You could always message an admin and ask them to transfer the account to you.

No my cat isn’t diabetic

Reminds me of how Reddit had “Community Engagement Ambassadors” (or w/e they were called) who were paid to just go around making low-effort engagement-farming posts on random communities like “What’s your favorite X in this game?” or “What do you think [sports team]'s greatest strength is?”.

People tend to look down on that sort of thing in retrospect, but this sort of “manufactured engagement” is likely the key factor in Reddit’s success as a platform.

I sometimes wonder if I (or just people in general) should start doing this on Lemmy as well, and whether the increased engagement would be worth the bad faith interaction.

Honestly? The only thing Lemmy and the rest of the Fediverse needs is institutional backing.

Take something simple like a game company releasing updates, changelogs, DLC announcements, and AMAs, in addition to semi-official communities or just places the developers interact with the community. Right now, for the vast majority of games, those things are happening on Twitter and Reddit, or sometimes private forums.

The Fediverse will become dominant once and only once institutions (government, business, media, etc.) start using it over centralized platforms. It will never truly take off until a Lemmy community becomes the “go-to” place for, say, discussing Paradox Interactive games, over the existing Subreddits.

The point you’re missing is that Lemmy only federates posts from communities with at least one subscriber from the home instance.

So if you have a single-user personal instance, you won’t see any posts on All except ones from communities you personally subscribe to.

I’m not aware of any method to mass-fetch federations, to answer OP.

I work in meat and I’ve always been jealous of people who could buy a whole brisket for smoking. If you know enough people to give it away to, I’d go with that.

Middle row, left side.

One of the best parts of this - especially if the trend continues - is that it makes the “Extinguish” part of a possible “Embrace, Expand, Extinguish” attack by Meta’s Threads more difficult.

Cutting off access to a bunch of tiny self-hosted private instances won’t even ping on their radar. But cutting off federation with official government platforms? That’s different.

Most (Many? It’s a lot) European countries have official state religions. The Church of England, Church of Scotland, the Lutheran Churches of Scandinavia.

In Germany, if you are associated with a religion, tithes are taken directly out of your paycheck like taxes.

Keep in mind one of the biggest parts of Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is funding Charter Schools (a type of private school). The foundation is so large they functionally set the curriculum in our school system (since schools that don’t follow their curriculum don’t get funding).

It’s not about charity, it’s about privatization and control.

Yes please