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Bringing some data in, riot games itself was reporting that cheating was not that much of a problem really: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-anti-cheat-in-lol-more/

According to the plot we see there, a very very very minor percentage of games was affected by cheaters in 2020, and I honestly doubt the situation has changed. So, until we see new data from riot, I'm calling bullshit on this whole vanguard thing

I think the main issue here (I haven't seen it mentioned in the top comments) is that LoL doesn't even have a cheating problem honestly. I've been playing since 2014, off and on, and I think I might have met maybe one scripter (I'm not really sure). Lol has definitely a toxicity problem, but I honestly don't think it has ever had a scripters/cheaters problem, so I really don't understand this. Is it because of bot accounts? Whose games are these bots ruining (never seen them between gold-diamond)? Does it justify a kernel level anti cheat? Honestly, the real problem with this is not the kernel level anti cheat (because I guess that might be useful for games like valorant), it's the fact that this was never really even close to be necessary

Edit: interestingly enough, riot games itself was reporting in 2020 that cheaters and scripters were ruining a very minor fraction of the games. Ref: https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-anti-cheat-in-lol-more/

Way too suspiciously specific

Very interesting question. As an Italian (specifying this because it probably changes what and when things happened), I remember this transition started to happen in 2010 mainly because of Facebook.

It's difficult to say why we decided to go with real names on that platform when there were already other similar ones (netlog was super popular here), where most people were mostly semi-anonimous (real pictures, fake names). I totally agree with another comment which said we started to realize internet was not that dangerous or bad, which probably made this happen, combined with the fact that Facebook explicitly asks for your real name.
Back then, I feel there was also much less attention to privacy on the internet (or maybe it's just because I was a teenager), and it felt super exciting to engage with every new platform or website.

I've been seeing a lot of posts about Threads privacy policy lately, where people seem genuinely shocked about it. I think it's good to raise awareness about how much data you're selling to Facebook company if you choose to use Threads, but I think it's also good to remind people (as the article does) that this happens also when you use Instagram or Facebook itself. Ditch Meta

Beware, though, that not all of them are really connected. For instance, beehaw recently defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks.

I would also add that yes, in general one shouldn't overthink which instance to sign up on, because you can still mostly view content from all other instances. However, you might take a few mins just to check the rules and philosophy of the instances. It's basically like assigning yourself to a Harry Potter house. In the end you'll all end up interacting in hogwarts, but being a slytherin can mean something different than being a griffindor

Well, there are many things to consider here. First off, let me say I really appreciate your "battle" for open science: I think that's what we should fight for, and I totally support that (I'm a PhD in computer science, but done with research). I don't think that the fact that you don't use FOSS makes your battle for open science any less legitimate, that is still super valid and you shouldn't feel hypocrite. That said, it is true that Apple does not support or contribute to open source at all (I believe CUPS is one of the few open source things Apple did, correct me if I'm wrong here).

Nonetheless, I totally understand the coziness of having such an integrated environment between all your devices: this is not gonna happen on Linux, or at least not at that level. I do believe that the Linux desktop experience has become much more user friendly (imo much more than Windows for instance), and there are also cool integration options such as KDE connect, but that's probably not as good and cool as Apple integration.

Committing to open source can be a time-consuming decision, and most people that advocates for FOSS still use or give their data to non-FOSS software (such as Google, Facebook etc.). So, my advice would be to embrace as much as you want of the open philosophy: you're already "fighting" for open science, maybe you can start using some open source software (maybe your email client? your pdf reader?). Little by little you'll judge by yourself what and how much you want to commit to the FOSS philosophy :)

interesting indeed, even though it seems to work only on specific tasks. I definitely support this direction though. LLMs are getting out of hand (have actually been for a while now), slipped from researchers' grasp into big tech companies'. I think the work that the open source and research community is doing already with the chatgpt lookalike models is incredible

Yes, seeing other instances communities from your own instance can be painful, and this is (as far as I understand) something the devs are working on. The way I do this is by simply setting the feed to all, so that you can see communities from all instances. If you need to look for a specific community from another instance see here.

I totally see your point here (and @unsunny@beehaw.org's). Yet, I still believe this is one of the most puzzling things for new people. People are just used to sign up and go, the fact they have to choose where can be pretty baffling imo, and maybe push them to desist.

This is just my opinion, but I think we should think about making the transition as smooth as possible (little by little, people will understand how this works and get used to it). Talking about my personal experience, I signed up on feddit.it, but I always look at the all feed (so I'm actually mostly hanging in beehaw or lemmy.ml communities). Again, I totally get your point of view here, and you're totally correct. I'm just saying that my impression is people are super puzzled by the sign-up mechanism, which can be a pretty huge barrier preventing people from actually joining lemmy.

As others have said, I would not talk about de-federation, and try to keep text as concise as possible. I believe we need a super easy, short and visual guide (this one is definitely on the right track).

I think the core concepts that should be illustrated are:

• fediverse nature (as you did);
• it doesn't matter where (on which instance) you sign up, you can still access and interact with all content of any other instance. Could be seen like having multiple doors (or streets) to access the same room (or town square).

I believe these two are the most important bits of information (and what puzzles people the most)