Vanilla: Straight out of the box, normal vanilla. You can add sprinkles, and it’s still vanilla.

French Vanilla: Technically not vanilla anymore, it’s named after the French way of making ice cream. But it’s close enough. When you give someone french vanilla ice cream and say it’s vanilla, they won’t get mad.

Chocolate: This is not vanilla. It is chocolate. Clearly different.

Rocky Road: Oh fuck, we added too many mods and now it’s crashing constantly.

I play Bedrock, on a single-player server, using a Retroid Pocket 2+! It’s an Android-based gaming handheld.

Define “meaningful way”. What about resource packs? They change how the game looks drastically, but it’s purely visual. What about performance mods? Higher and lower FPS definitely impact one’s movement and accuracy with a mouse.

Literally, it means no mods.

But sometimes performance mods are allowed.

Or sometimes certain launchers are allowed.

Sometimes texture packs aren’t.

Or shaders are.

Or playing with keepInventory on or doFireTick off isn’t.

I have no goddamn clue anymore.

Ahhh, now it makes sense, thank you! So…do we panic because Zillaberg is making a federated Twitter sequel, or…?

Ahh, so if I’m on Site A, I can view and comment on things from Site B, so long as A and B are federated with one another. The worry then is basically seeing and dealing with Meta’s bullshit here, and them more or less taking over through EEE tactics. That makes sense now.

Lemmy communities aren’t federated with Meta threads by default, right? It’s opt in. So just…don’t federate with .meta or whatever they’ll use? Apart from “don’t affiliate with The Zuckerbot”, I’m still not sure what the worry is all about.

Alright, that kind of answers the “how do I block Meta bullshit?” question, but what does that mean for Lemmy? Lemmy is an entirely different site from Facebook or Threads or whatever. Or is Lemmy more like a browser to view anyone’s federated community? Then I’d get the EEE thing everyone’s talking about. You usually see your communities on Site A, but Site B offers what Site A has, but also free beer! People migrate to Site B, Site B slowly introduces ads, poisons the beer, kills your cat, and steals your wife, but Site A is a shell of it’s former self and dies out, so…you can’t unfuck what’s been fucked.

I’m brand new to Lemmy (guess why, lol) and federated systems in general. How do I block all things Meta? And what does that even mean for Lemmy, where it’s an entirely different site from Facebook?

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