👾 a basilisk has a challenge rating of 3 (Monster Manual, 5th Edition) so the so-called Rocco’s Basilisk should be an average challenge for a party of four level 3 adventurers (unless it has been modified to be stronger but I think most would agree the DM of the Universe is extremely hands-off in DMing style.)
therefore anyone afraid of Rocco’s Basilisk must either be lower than a level 3 person or else not have three friends to battle it with.
lewd???? what?????
lewd???? what?????
@sc_griffith @RileyNorman For Bluesky, probably.
But it will be interesting to see if PBLLCs in general can stay on mission better than ordinary companies. Or even nonprofits.
For any of you who bought Minecraft and haven't migrated to a Microsoft account yet, you have until September 19th to migrate or you will lose access to the game forever (fuck Microsoft).
If you don't remember your password or whatever then you have until then to sort it out somehow and migrate your account.
Pic unrelated.
As they say, <I expected the world to be cruel, but I didn't expect it to be so dumb.>
@marine a friend of mine had this deck. Great design.
@RileyNorman @sc_griffith Maybe in a decade there will have been enough of them that we can clearly say <this doesn't work> or <this is what you need to do to succeed>.
@RileyNorman @sc_griffith they're a Public Benefit LLC. Those are pretty new, I'm not sure if they work well or not.
Of course, corruption in traditional nonprofits is common enough.
I hope that the fuming about #Bluesky inspires people to make improvements to the fediverse.
@RileyNorman @sc_griffith Oh, will they be hosting the processing? I hadn't heard that.
My understanding was that there was going to be a standard feed format and that algorithms would just produce that, but run on their own infrastructure.
@raccoon People who want to do that just fork Mastodon and don't federate. (Like Gab.)
Bluesky was announced as decentralized in the first place, because Jack wanted to get out of the business of moderation.
Now they might fail at that or pivot to something profitable, but I don't think it was fake to begin with.
@raccoon this seems like a bit of a stretch to me. If Bluesky wants to be able to hop between data centers, they don't have to sell the public on a protocol, they just build the sharding internally.
I think it makes more sense to treat it as a future wish. We might lose the bet if they pivot to serving their existing customers, but the scenario you've sketched with the datacenter hopping doesn't justify straight disbelief. (To me, anyway.)
@RileyNorman @sc_griffith isn't the whole point of the design to have pluggable moderation?
I don't understand where the idea that they would block popular open source moderation algorithms comes from.
With @moaparty shutting down their crossposter, I can now post absolutely unhinged takes on fedi without having to worry about them being mirrored to Twitter.