Voyager makes moderating a breeze, too!

Thank you! Its *ma’am!

But I think its sad too, that something has made us all doubt everything we read, and judge it all so harshly. What a strange world now :(

Oh that’s so kind of you to say!

One thing I had to change with my writing was dropping my en and em dash use. I loved them, but seeing how Chat has adopted them and throws them out like confetti has made me change my ways :(

I’m really glad you enjoyed the content, Kazeta feels so unique and fun to me, it really desveres some attention!

If you join his Discord, you’ll see he’s working out other physical ‘devices’ which will work on the same principle!

Early days so far, but its exciting to see all kinds of ideas being suggested in there :)

Thanks!

I’ve written…well a bunch of different ‘styles’ of things over the last two or so years. I’ve had plenty of rambling rants on general gaming news (which gets shared exclusively here on Lemmy), and I’ve done just straight interviews (Heroic, Lutris, RetroDECK and so on), I figured it was time to at least try something different. I like the idea of a kind of feature article, and Alkazar was so kind to chat to me for awhile on Kazeta. It felt right.

I’m glad you enjoyed it, even if it kinda took you aback to begin with :)
Thanks for the comment!

Oh yikes, well that’s a hard thing to read when I wrote it! I’ll try make sure in future to diversify what the heck I’m trying to get across. Thanks for letting me know, even if it is a tough thing to read!

A little edit:

Alkazar is very happy with the article, as is Gardiner (whose site this is posted on). I’ve been writing for a long time now, you can check my post history here if you’d like to check through those which I’ve written exclusively for Lemmy. Or you can filter my posts on Gardiner’s site to see the others I’ve written. I’ve had a couple things posted on Gaming on Linux, and also on SDHQ.

As much as I try to not let it get under my skin, the dismissive ‘it’s just A.I.’ comment does get under my skin. It’s awful to read when a ton of work goes into these, and when friendships are formed because of what I write. I get that its not for you, and maybe my pacing of the article wasn’t for you either. Can’t pretend that it doesn’t hurt to read that.

I’m not a professional, this isn’t my business or my life. Its a hobby.

Oh, that’s me!

Thanks, Alk. I’m glad my little posts mean something to the general public here, I appreciate it!

It’s exhausting!!!

So you’d prefer no solution?

I get the hatred, no one loathes Discord more than me, but on their own time and dime they’re giving an option for those who avoid Discord. I can’t understand why your first, and only thought, is to shit on it.

Discord’s pervasive, and has become the default option for too many projects, but I can see why - it is free, and everyone uses it. Easy for us, who haven’t built a fucking giant program and community to sit back and sneer at how they offer support, but this is it. It’s all done now.

Just be glad they’re giving people an option. This isn’t even a ‘solution’ quote-unquote. It is a solution, that will take time and care and effort. Which they’re doing.

Jesus.

And people judged me for watching YouTube with uBlock Origin, or via NewPipe for eons.

Look who’s laughing now.

Easy fix:

Buy a fitness/smart watch - an older one is fine, why go excessive

Download GadgetBridge from F-Droid/Droidify and then use that instead of a proprietary app which is just harvesting your data and telemetry at every chance:

• Removing the messages option and instead replacing it with their stupid DM chat system, even for modmail

• Stating that later this year they’re going to introduce walled off paid sub-reddit

• That live stream nonsense they had a couple of years back

• Their A.I. answers integration

• Censoring users who mention ‘eat the rich’ and the name Luigi

• No longer allowing moderators of their own sub-reddit to change a sub’s status to NSFW (after the protests, obv), now requires admin to do this for them if the deem it appropriate

…who’d have guessed that these decisions were shit. Not the community who told them each time, again and again, right?

Fuck you, Reddit