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You can accuse Peter Molyneaux for a lot of things, but he did manage to come up with some interesting wacky shit interspersed with all the exaggerations and scams.

Iceshrimp is also in a weird place right now, as it's currently also in maintenance mode while the ongoing iceshrimp.NET full rewrite is happening. Seeing the OP's comments about the Firefish codebase, that rewrite might be just what's needed - provided it's actually completed.

Isn't this Shroud's game? Not a good look for him.

When I hear "UbiSoft" the first word I think of is "lukewarm". Mediocre, inoffensive junk food gaming that's rarely so bad that it's unplayable but also never meaningful, interesting or memorable.

This has been their m.o. for decades, I don't know what people were expecting?

I've said it before and caught flak but I'll say it again: I really, truly hate the naming conventions Kbin introduced. "Reduces" is maybe the worst offender but "magazines" too is a completely nonsensical name for communities.

Uneven matchmaking is definitely the biggest fun thief in the game right now for me - whether it's our team or the enemy team that does the stomping. It's a shame too because the close, even games are so much fun. Glad to hear it's being worked on.

Smells like bolstering the Deadlock team after the (probably massively surprising) huge surge the alpha is having in popularity. But it's Valve, so you never know. Assuming their hierarchy - or lack thereof - still remains it's not like they'd be tied to Deadlock forever either.

I'd still rather have algorithmic recommendations of what's been "hot" lately in the tags I follow over a chronological feed. But I'm considering giving Sharkey/Firefish/Iceshrimp another go.

Hm, messy. Thanks for the reply. It's like we're so close to good interoperability, but yet so far.

Does following a community spam your feed with every reply to every thread in that community, or just with new posts?

I'm not on any of the services currently, but I have tried Mastodon in the past and point 4. was what made me bounce off it. I know Mastodon flaunts its algorithm-free feed as almost a point of pride, but as a user it just doesn't do it for me. I could not get it to serve me the type of content I wanted the way I wanted, and it just felt like way too much work for what I was looking for.

So does Lemmy, to an extent. It doesn't support microblogs directly, but Mastodon users can post to a community by @-ing it and can reply to comments on Lemmy, and we can reply to their replies and posts.