Glad to have woman playing.
Just one? Guess it's fitting given you're on lemmy.one :P
RIP Satoru Iwata, the least bad gaming CEO. Dude actually took a pay cut when Nintendo wasn't doing well.
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"God" has a lot to do with it, yes.
People like the BBC, yes, exactly.
As OneRedFox says, it's all about the UX. From the perspective of your average gamer, IRC has awful UX. I know that speedrunning, romhacking, and other gaming subcommunities have used / still use IRC, but they're very much on the technical side of gamers. Discord is a lot friendlier to the average gamer (I know, I know, it's Electron and proprietary and shit for reasons besides those two, but consider your average console CoD player here). I still like IRC, too, though I'd love to see it evolve a little more quickly. IRCv3 is nice but my goodness, how long have they been working on it?
Oh, yeah, it was this huge, frankly surreal, thing. The founder of Private Internet Access decided he wanted his own IRC network and bullied his way into being in charge, along with a team of cronies and yes-men.
This is exactly what happened when the folks behind the hostile takeover of freenode started banning people for talking about libera.chat. And we see precisely how well that went for freenode. This is what happens when business people make decisions.
Looks like spez is done with the AMA. His responses constitute 0.07% of comments in the thread.
And he's already started with the personal attacks against Christian Selig, the Apollo author. Already. Barely 10 minutes into the AMA and he's already personally attacking someone. What a piece of shit.
There are several good mastodon instances, just not mastodon.social. Moderating is hard and you have to actually do it and not be afraid it's censorship. Oh, and not being a fascist helps. I'm beginning to wonder about the mastodon.social admins.
That is so, so cool, thank you!
Apple's iChat (precursor to Messages.app) used to do XMPP, too. I don't think it federated, or if it did it was very short-lived, but all the big tech companies with chat services got their start with XMPP. It's almost like it's a great set of tools for communicating, which, sadly and ironically, open source tech seems to have moved on from. To be fair, I far prefer Matrix's JSON to XMPP's XML, but it's a little disappointing that everyone forgets about XMPP.
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This is 1. not true, as shortwavesurfer says and 2. not an equivalent comparison. This would be like saying that mastodon doesn't talk to glitch or pleroma. But they do, so even if this comparison was equivalent, it'd be false.