Wizened (and withering) game developer, Monster Hunter and Genshin Impact enjoyer, occasional music maker, and unapologetic leftist.
Games matter. But people matter more. ♥
I’ve been out of the loop for the last ~5 weeks. What’s PV?
Could kill off desktop PCs
Linux has entered the chat.
I recently switched to sorting by New, which sounds insane coming from Reddit, but Lemmy is much smaller right now, and New is actually viable and interesting.
I’m sure with more growth that will change, but it’s definitely kept my feed fresher and more interesting than either Active or Hot.
(This does of course assume that you’re subscribed to a reasonable number of communities you’re interested in.)
Ah yeah, this makes sense.
I have seen other services include an explicit SSO link under the user/pass form, which IMO is clearer what’s actually going on, but I’m sure that structure hopelessly confuses lots of less technical users, too.
Yeah, I see this one happen occasionally, and it makes me marginally less grouchy.
I’m one of the newer transplants from Reddit, but for the last several years I’ve only been a lurker there, because I haven’t felt like I really fit in with those communities and that culture well enough to fully engage.
Lemmy feels different, in similar fashion to how Mastodon felt so different from Twitter when I switched over there a year so back. I haven’t looked back on Twitter, and I doubt I’ll look back on Reddit. The water’s way nicer over here, for me.
I do think it’ll take a while for most of the disruptive newcomers to fully bounce off the Lemmy/Fediverse culture, but I also do think they will eventually bounce off it, as long as we all stick to our guns in terms of the culture we want to build, the rules with which we want to govern our communities and servers, and the social norms we want to tolerate.
There are just going to be 1973629092 tedious arguments about defederation between here and there. 🙄
I’m also finding it really effective. I only hate that backing out from a post is a crapshoot on whether it preserves my scroll position, resets to the top, or reloads the entire feed.
For three years now, I’ve put in real low scores and real critical comments on these things, and literally everyone I know at work says they’ve done the same (we are all so stressed) but then next quarter comes along and the execs share the survey results and wouldn’t you know it, engagement is great, the best it’s ever been, no problems here!
Amazing how that happens.
omg the absolute ~v i b e s~ on that thing 🤩