Moved over from Reddit after the API debacle. Primary account history:
@Zedstrian@kbin.social (2023) @Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com (2023–26) @Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz (2026–)
Hopefully Chinese firms recognize the gap in the market and increase their capacity.
“Government devices typically include preinstalled apps that provide value to government employees’ day-to-day work.”
They should go back to doing that instead then.
Piefed has a feature to combine posts from multiple communities into feeds, but otherwise community consolidation consists of a moderator restricting one community to mod posts only and using a pinned post to redirect users to another.
They’re not active here, but they’re still active on Bluesky.
Less fragmentation is definitely better, so while the option to split is always there with more options than are available on Reddit, ideally communities should stay united to avoid dividing already small userbases.
Unpaid moderators should have the freedom to act according to their personal preferences. If moderation becomes a problem, the platform’s federated structure facilitates creating alternative communities.
Crossposted from https://sopuli.xyz/post/43900197
Spoiler
Interesting puzzle.
Starting out by looking at the portals, Ω1 is needed to unlock ¿9, Ω2 for Ÿ6, Ω4 for Ÿ9 and ¿13, Ω5 for ¿7, Ÿ8, ¿8, and Ω7, and Ω7 for the end, while Ω3 and Ω6 do nothing.
Because of one-way paths and death markers, □3 and Ÿ7 are not accessible on a valid path. Because Ÿ9 (Mole-Rat) effectively serves as a one-way path (with the alternative Ω6 being a death trap), Ω4 is also effectively useless and ¿13 (Ladder) is inaccessible.
A starting route should pass Ÿ1 (Fish), retrieve ¿3 (Crown) and ¿12 (Key) from Ÿ3 (Delivery Boy), and use the Key on □4 to proceed past Ÿ2 (Bridge Troll). As returning past the Bridge Troll is effectively a one-way path, ¿4 (Lightbowl) and ¿9 (Earth Nugget) via Ω1 are inaccessible on a valid path.
At this point (and before further teleports), there is direct access to Ω5, ¿2, Ÿ5, □2 (flavor text), ¿10, Ω2, □5 (flavor text), Ÿ4, and Ω4. Counting Ω2, Ω4, and Ω5, there is also access to Ÿ6, ¿7, Ÿ8, ¿8, and Ω7 (and by extension, the end).
Before accounting for further creatures, the inventory has ¿2 (Paradox), ¿3 (Crown), ¿7 (Fire Nugget), ¿8 (Water Nugget), ¿10 (Wind Nugget), and ¿12 (Key). In terms of further creatures, there is access to Ÿ4, Ÿ5, Ÿ7, and Ÿ8.
Ÿ4 (High Priestess) gives ¿1 (Fishbowl), while Ÿ8 (Crazy One) gives ¿11 (Taser), bringing the inventory item count to 8 items. If the Crown is left behind, one could get ¿5 (Cigarette) from Ÿ6 (Emperor) and exchange it for ¿6 (Egg) from Ÿ5 (Mute Boy and Chicken), but the item count would still be 8.
With 8 items (Fishbowl, Paradox, Crown or Cigarette or Egg, Fire Nugget, Water Nugget, Wind Nugget, Taser, and Key), one should be able to leave the maze via Ω7 optimally.