Kids (and even adults) back then didn't really know what was and wasn't possible for real-time computer graphics. Like back in the time of Warcraft 2 and shit especially. SC2 maybe less so.

What an absolutely braindead reply.

Mastodon had a bad experience for that person.
Blue sky didn't.
Their experience wasn't unique.
End of story.

You're doing mental gymnastics to misinterpret their argument. Nobody said they want centralized social media you absolute lemon. They want a user experience that doesn't suck. Right now, blue sky provides that while mastodon doesn't.

"Oh but bsky's federation doesn't solve Mastodon's problem" they don't have to solve Mastodon's problem.

Elitist neckbeards like you are the reason the fediverse isn't fun.

Toxic people can be blocked by your instance, or you can move to an instance that doesn't tolerate that behavior

Honestly it kinda reminds me of blizzard games back in the day.

Folks remember the StarCraft adverts and cutscenes? Not remotely like the game.

I wonder why we gave them a pass. Probably because the game was still fun, I guess

Omg DOUBLE PEEN

Lol peen

See this is part of the problem.

Dude was like "look at this objectively terrible experience I actually had"
And you are like "yeah well that could happen to bsky in theory too, so they're just as bad!"

I've been a mastodon user for almost 2 years, but I never use it because finding interesting people to subscribe to who are actually active is difficult.
I haven't been using bsky because I've really been hoping mastodon takes off, but whenever I hear about how easy it is to onboard and find interesting content, I think about switching.

That doesn't remove the toxic mod.

How many alts and sock puppets do you think the average person should have? This doesn't sound healthy

I said it was better, just not much better.

The maintenance costs of equals is nearly zero. Scrolling over boilerplate seems like a real stretch, like saying a novel with a picture every chapter is harder to read.

I like that you can't accidentally forget to update it, which is kinda nice but is rarely a concern.
And it's a bit more readable, which is nice.
It's better, but folks are talking like it's Super Jesus and I think it's more like finding a dollar in the parking lot.

It's like 5 seconds to regenerate it. Boilerplate doesn't matter, just collapse it. The only real issue is remembering to update it, if you make a change.

Like I said, I prefer for rust does it, it's just not a big deal

We already have the same problem here. Some of our major communities have belligerent mods on problematic instances.

We're not solving that problem, we're just making it easier to hide from it via defederation.

If federation works the way it's claimed to, then if we migrate even the bad parts of reddit here it should be fine.

Lemmy is turning into an elitist cesspool.