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Steam | XBL
Don't worry, my daft country does it all the time!
If you wanted other features, such as triggers, macros, secondary windows, or - heaven forbid - automapping, then yes - you needed a specialised client like zmud, gmud, or tintin/wintin.
Old enough to basically be a predecessor to the plague of Facebook/mobile games that charge you for turns. You could play for free and just let your turns/energy/whatever refresh on whatever time cycle (days, minimum)... or you could pay silly amounts of money to get basically infinite turns so you could utterly annihilate any of the non-paying players. Poor free players were basically playing a different game, one where the paying players could just cruise through and wreck your shit and you just had to kinda shrug and move on.
Honestly if you did mud at all you were going to get something like zmud like I used. Trying to use it just plain was a total pain and once I figured out Zmud and the mapper stuff it became SOOOO much better. But yes any basic telnet client like Putty or the built in windows one could let you access it.
I tried but my map got messed up so I am trying to find the right room.
Steam | XBL
Dredging this back up as I've been thinking about it again. Mastodon/Pixelfed is looking more like a Facebook alternative than Bluesky/Flashes now that both have had a little time to breathe. I think I can import my photos en masse and maybe even keep the albums they were in. I'm not totally understanding the Servers concept but it seems like it doesn't really matter what server I join?
Anyway if we do have any Mastodon users here, I'd welcome any advice on things I should know going in.
tl;dr it's kinda-sorta like email if you squint at it. You can follow people from other servers than your own, not just "gmail.com".
Messenger is probably inescapable for me unless I can win my family over to wherever I go; even then I'll still probably keep an account to communicate with people for whom that's the only way I can do so.
But even if I still have an account, if I can manage to move my usage somewhere else, I can delete the app and stop myself from scrolling.
I confess I don't really get this, but I grew up when family photographs lived in albums - physical books - and they didn't really "do" anything there.
Like, it's not a hill I need to die on but being able to arrange pictures and share them with people is fairly basic functionality that I am hoping I can find apart from the baggage of Facebook.
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Yes, IRC. in 2025.
There are plenty of ways to arrange and share photos that aren't facebook.
I assumed so, which is why I have been asking for advice to that end, with the expressly stated intention of leaving Facebook.
Do you want suggestions for alternatives? Maybe be a little clearer there.
You didn't actually ask for alternatives, you just said you can't leave facebook.
Did you guys miss my actual post? I did not say I can't leave Facebook and literally started the whole thing by asking for alternatives so I can leave Facebook.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People
It's the book by Sarah Wynn-Williams, former global policy director at Facebook that Facebook is going to absolutely crazy lengths to try and shutdown which is leading, of course, to a big old Streisand effect. Wynn-Williams can't promote the book because of the gag order a judge placed on her and Facebook is apparently like harassing individual reporters to not talk about it but the thing is flying off the shelves.
And that's because it's full of stories about the bonkers immoral behaviour of all the people running the place and the things they've gotten up to. I tried to find a good non-paywalled article on it but they are pretty thin on the ground.
Of the many things mentioned in the book, probably the biggest is the lengths Facebook was willing to go to break into China. They were offering the CCP full control of censorship on the platform in China and also the ability to suppress what the Chinese government decided was unacceptable viral content in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Along with full access to all user data. They even took down the page of a chinese dissident living in the US to try and curry favour with Xi. And on like that. The Chinese of course nodded their heads and said "very good" and then gave Zuckerberg nothing in return. Which is what all his people like Wynn-Williams were telling him would happen. They lied to Congress about all this when Zuckerberg et all were dragged in to talk about it.
Other related things were a complete lack of caring by the people at the top about their role in the genocide in Myanmar even as it was happening. Their own people were telling them they needed to stop what was happening and they were like "eh".
There's also a bunch in there about Facebook's coverup of the utter monstrosity that is their marketing program. Their marketing people openly tell the companies they are trying to sell ad-space to that they will target minors at emotionally vulnerable moments in order to better push your product. Is that 13 year old feeling bad about her self-image right now? We'll let you slam her feed with beauty product ads. When this leaked to the press, Facebook pretended it was a one-off rogue thing while internally saying they advertised this kind of service all the time but don't leave a papertrail letting people know that.
There's a ton of other stuff in here ranging from the standardly monstrous to the just pathetic. Lots of sexual harassment stuff from both Kaplan and Sandberg (reporting this is what got Wynn-Williams fired). Zuckerberg being an amoral piece of shit who loves Andrew Jackson and also a guy who you have to let win at Settlers of Catan. And so on.
Nothing we didn't already know or suspect but there's a lot more details then we had before revealing the full extent of this shit. There's a whistleblower complaint she's also filed about the outright illegal shit mentioned in the book. But the really big stuff is yet more confirmation of the extent of what these platforms can and will do with the information they have on us and their control of what people see.
She appeared a few other places, including NPR I believe, before the injunction forced her to cancel all her other appearances.