Comment on PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?

• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think that niche might be bigger and more normal than you think it is.

  Why a handheld if 99% of people don’t want to use it outside of the house and just want a home-portsble

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  • FullFridge@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agreed, people on here can’t seem to understand how this product could be successful? Every post about it on here has the same upvoted comments about how people should get a Steam Deck instead. If someone comments about why they like it or are happy with it, it gets downvoted.

    Personally I probably won’t ever buy one of these but to act like your opinion about something as unimportant as a this is better than everyone else’s screams of reddit to me. Why not just let people be happy with their purchase?

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  • willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Edit to just point out how disappointed I am in this community lately. It’s become all the things that made me dislike reddit. The circlejerk here is just as strong, and all the discussions we had initially are gone in favor of updooting my opinion and downdooting everyone else.

    This has been Lemmy wide and growing substantially.

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    • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Both of you had too lofty dreams for social media. Reddit itself used to be like that too, by convincing themselves that this sort of idealistic attitude could last, or that “circlejerk”, that is, the influence of majority opinion, was ever not present. This is a place for discussion among regular people, not a philosophical symposium of specialists, as if those environments were truly neutral and universally accepting either.

      As platforms grow beyond the most invested niche users, most people will not put more energy into any discussion than a general agree or disagree. The tendency of downvotes is always to become a disagree button, no matter how much one might insist otherwise. In such a semi-anonymous platform, a modicum of politeness is already an achievement.

      Really, if you do want to have such a perfectly open and supportive discussion group you might want to select particular people to create a small forum. But by doing that, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you won’t escape some form of circlejerk.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This platform has shrunk, not grown. The good people seem to have left, maybe as a result of the reddit people coming in?

        Here’s the thing, this platform is small. It is a small forum, and it’s changed in tone from being a place of discussion, to a place of jerking

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      • willya@lemmyf.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Dunno why you stretched that point across so many words. I’m not speaking on just downvotes. There’s trigger words that will almost universally get you comment bombed along with being downvoted. We filtered everyone of the same mind from Reddit and brought them here. To the point that Reddit could theoretically be better now.

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