I intend to stay here on beehaw. It will take me a while to get over the habituated behaviors I had with reddit, but the quality of the posts over here is high. I don’t feel like voices are getting drowned out over here. So reddit won’t miss me. Over time, I won’t miss reddit. All good things must end.

Now time to enjoy watching how new communities and the software driving Lemmy develop.

That’s my thought too. Even before this, I felt like I was reading automated posts and chat bot responses on reddit. It seems like a zombie forum where most of the “people” weren’t really real, it was just recycled content, laugh tracks, and being force fed content posted by reddit itself (versus users) scraped from other places.

Thanks @Kushan@beehaw.org. That is indeed where I saw it. I forgot the link in my post.

Interesting. The comments are now lagging well below normal. Here’s a screenshot from the blackout tracker. The red arrow shows how reddit is still spamming lots of new posts, but comments are much lower than usual. Normally, at the peak times, comments are at or even above the number of posts. Not today though.

It looks like the activity is flattening now. I guess the stale content is starting to have an effect.

I want to like kbin, but I understand beehaw and Lemmy instances better. For the life of me, I cannot figure out the syntax to find communities/instances that are not local to kbin. They have some great “magazines”, but I’ve already started following some communities on other Lemmy instances, so if I opt to use the kbin server and their UI, I need to be able to figure out how to find the communities I’m already participating in.

LOL!

I feel the same on BG3. I shelved it for now. I played through the same parts of Act 1 as a Bard and as a Sorcerer. The lack of controller support and the tiny UI made it annoying. The game seems to have a quality plot. I was intrigued. But I see no reason to persist with playing the same area over and over again, fighting the UI and controller when the real deal is close to being released. Yeah, I could remap my controller to work better, but why. Once the game is out, I’ll be using their controller layout, so I’d have to relearn it all. Nah, I’ll just wait.

I’ve been curious as to what the end user experience on reddit might look like today and tomorrow. The blackout tracker seems to show fairly typical activity though. https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ That perplexes me.

Maybe people are still checking reddit like usual, but many posts are hours old in the private subreddits that they may subscribe to? I know a percentage of subreddits didn’t go dark, but those wouldn’t be big enough to cause engagement to stay at the usual levels. Anyone hazard a guess as to what’s up?

Oh…thank you guys for keeping up with all the chaos from us new folks slamming your servers!

I just started Yakuza Like a Dragon. Holy crapballs, this game is good! I’m only 4 hours into it but damn, the story, dialog; it’s great. I’m on steam deck. It’s verified on deck and runs like a champ.

I relate. First person games are more likely to cause it for me, but there have even been a few third person that do it. Stray was horrible for me, I got stuck within 20 minutes! Interestingly enough, BOTW and TOTK do not cause me any problems despite being action based (though they are third person). I guess how they handle the camera and other video issues it’s the reason? I’ve played nearly 70 hours in TOTK and over 150 in BOTW and never felt green in the least.

Otherwise, I try to stick to turn based games and third person for the most part. Turn based games reduce the frequency that I have to spin the camera around to get my bearings. I’m lucky that I prefer rpgs, so there’s a good collection of third person turn based games to choose from. Persona 5 for example. No issues at all.

Oh yeah. Witcher 3…it’s been a minute since I played that. I don’t know how well I’d be using the deck for it though since I find the device a bit big for my hands. Reaching all the controls is a challenge for me. But I do have it on steam. It would be totally worthy to fire it up on my deck and see.

Yes. I highly recommend it. There were moments that I got stuck and wandered around trying to figure out what to do next. But it’s gratifying when you finally get it. Disco makes you really role play.

I can’t play action games on my deck at all. SoI hear ya. I have small hands. The switch fits me much better, so I play action games like TOTK on it.

I’ve been pondering getting this. I must be one of 10 people who have never played a Diablo game. Do you think 4 is appreciable for newbs to the franchise?

You’re playing those on steam deck? Wow. You got skills!

How well do the controls work in fallout 4? I’m interested in playing it, but I can’t recall if it’s verified on the deck yet.

I played it on my switch. I think they updated it and made the performance better. It may not be as good, but it was good enough for me. (I actually prefer my switch because the size fits my hands better. )

Oooo. The trails series would be great to start back up.

Part of me thinks that while a majority of folks will remain on reddit, the most active, engaged members will leave. …the mods, the people posting original content, the people posting the most replies.

Over time, the content on reddit could become even more stale, repetitive, and low quality.