I am leaving the fediverse by tomorrow because it is not what I imagined it would be. Spez killed reddit’s soul, not just it’s original spirit. The fediverse is a sham and a political soapbox writ large, it will never support a true community like reddit used to unless that community is one with a heavy political relevance.
I never used a forum account, I play and I use mods but I don’t create mods due to difficulty understanding computers’ “behind the scenes” stuff. I appreciate FOSS because that also extends to Web³ crypto contracts and to digital footprints, but unlike with OpenTTD (the game, not my account), I do not believe the fediverse will ever be a good place to communicate without being stressed by social shit.
My intent to make this community a prime spot for fediverse discussion of the game has failed in favor of the Dutch and Canadian communities, and I no longer feel motivated to keep going, so I think this is goodbye. You probably won’t see me around, I don’t plan to stop lurking anywhere else, as I cannot use my Apple ID (banned years ago because someone who I no longer associate with keylogged my PC, I’ve been wary of online services that are “free to use with purchases available” ever since as I had to cancel my credit card) and do not trust Google either, making it necessary to do everything on a laptop or not at all. It’s fine by me but means I do not use my email address and have given up trying to have user accounts anywhere.
Thank you for your time, I wish I could have done more. If you’re interested, I can transfer ownership to anyone who is in good standing with the OpenTTD community, but proof of login will be needed. Fair warning, you’re going to get a lot of “I fear the government” guys, and though I am anticapitalist I am not the kind of person who enjoys outrage porn and I feel the internet needs to be reimagined, not just rebuilt, which is why I am leaving. Don’t worry, I usually play this game alone and it holds a special place in my heart. Bye.
Yes, you are correct. X-TREME leftoid insane buffoons took over the fediverse because no one else can tolerate them, so they set up shop here. At least the surface level of it.
Any way, sorry for your terrible experience on the surface of fediverse.
Literally every other post on this page certainly helped me out. OP may be gone (no hard feelings for taking over this one after I deleted my own account, we clearly had too many OpenTTD communities in the fediverse) but it’s the reason I know I’ll be taking blocking of my own free will more seriously. If OP was too impatient, that’s one thing, but humanity as a whole has become so insufferable to anyone who is not on the “x-treme” fringes of politics (both right AND left) that your comment deserves every last one of the 15 downvotes (as of this writing) it got for you acting like if there was no blocklist that people don’t have feelings.
I will be banning you from the community I do still run and if feddit.de’s OpenTTD community asks, I’ll recommend they ban you too, as you clearly feel no empathy nor care about the topic (the game OpenTTD, not the user OpenTTD who apparently named himself after the game and claimed this community sometime after I deleted my account on lemmy.zip) and you seem to have nothing to contribute on either front.