Update: In light of the programming.dev update here https://programming.dev/post/8399272, the defederation is no longer going ahead.
However, something more needs to be said. Even here on Blahaj, some of our users took issue with the choice to defederate over this issue.
So I would like to give some background and context.
Blahaj Zone exists, because both Kaity and I left mainstream social media to escape transphobia. Reddit, with its lackluster approach to fighting transphobia, and twitter, with its outright celebration of transphobia pushed us here, to the fediverse, and to create Blahaj Zone and Blahaj Lemmy.
To that end, we will continue to treat transphobia seriously. Our goal is to create a space where gender diverse folk can exist and let our defenses down a little, where we don’t have to worry about getting dragged in to an argument with a transphobe, or a bad faith actor “just asking questions”.
If you are looking for a more reddit like experience, where in the interest of increased engagement, we let low level transphobia slide, and push responsibility for dealing with it on to community mods and individual users, then you will likely not be happy with blahaj going forward. If you choose to stay here, understand that we may defederate again in the future over similar issues.
The choice is yours.
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It has recently been brought to my attention that the lead admin of programming.dev is engaging in ongoing transphobia.
You can see the conversation in question here https://programming.dev/comment/6131539
For that reason we will be defederating from programming.dev in 48 hours.
There are only three communities on that instance used by small number of our users, so this won’t have a big impact, but if you are one of those users, you will need to use an alt account on another instance if you wish to access the communities.
this is the way i learn that a mid game like hogwarts legacy won best steam deck game? like how… do they know baldur’s gate 3 exists?
BG3 won GOTY and you couldn’t vote the same game for multiple categories.
No one took the voting seriously and it was full of trolling. Guess what won the award for most innovative gameplay?
The steam awards are awarded by a vote from anyone with a steam account. You should take these awards as seriously as any internet poll.
Despite being the most derivative release of the year, Starfield won the award for Most Innovative Gameplay.
BG3 did win both Game of the Year, and Outstanding Story-Rich Game.
Does BG3 run well on steam deck? Huge if true
when i first got bg3 i played it all the time on the steam deck (some of the menus take some getting used to but it works).
My boyfriend and I play on the couch, I using a Steam Link, he using the Steam Deck.
Both run great.