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I've been learning more about game development by recreating Slay the Spire in Godot.

Reddit is deteriorating by the day. The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot…

I can never say enough good things about the Godot engine.

Contrast this with another story on the first page this morning: "Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're running Firefox" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/it…

It's the Fediverse version of YouTube using the ActivityPub protocol just like Mastodon and Lemmy.

It's funny how they always leave out all the negatives in articles like these. Increased traffic? Time away from family? Higher gas and food bills? Quality of life? Never covered. …

If we go to yet another corporate/tech bros entity, we're stupid. Let's build our communities right this time and select something open-source, and federated so we don't end up in …

Kbin is very close to the Reddit UI and Lemmy is nice as well. I've used both since last week and user engagement on both is through the roof. I'd encourage anyone to at least chec…

> I have a more vibrant and more interesting mastodon feed than I ever had on twitter. Exactly! I can comment on a post and have real engagement with someone which hasn't happened …

He's probably talking about Matt Wolfe's newsletter and AI tools site: https://www.futuretools.io/

And what does that have to do with the new changes he pushed to have his tweets be in every single users' timelines?

We've already got a replacement that's owned and administered by users, with no ads, that can't be bought and ruined by billionaires: Mastodon. The ex-twitter employees are already…

This is mostly an opinion piece that's critiquing issues we've only begun to solve. Also, Elon has now shown us all the absolute danger of centralized platforms. Email and web serv…

> But China can continue to improve the quality of life for Chinese people if they don't do anything really stupid and end up isolated like Russia. This is extremely unlikely. Half…

I'd love to see the engagement metrics over time. How many minutes are people really spending per-session on Facebook now compared to years ago? It has to be trending downward...

By-and-large, no group of people in America treat women worse than anti-abortion crowd.

We're not slaves anymore. You as a human being are allowed to express your thoughts and opinions. Would we know how awful it was at Activision/Blizzard if those employees had not s…

Dark Reader and other extensions aren't necessary. Chrome has built-in functionality (since v78) to turn every website dark and works flawlessly on 99% of sites. [Chrome Experiment…

I replaced jQuery with vanilla JavaScript a couple of years ago and never looked back. Between the abundance of features in ES6 now and the death of IE, I wouldn't recommend any ju…