I’m sure this is a massive boon for various scientific communities

My rule is that if I play a game for over 50+ hours and still would play it some more, it goes into my favorites. Out of 250 games, only 15 have made it into my favorites.

Also, this is a good video, you all should watch it.

Stardew Valley is as stressful as you wanna make it lol

Been playing Stardew valley and Slay the spire while watching tv/movies on a second monitor. It’s a pretty engrossing way to spend your free time.

I felt the same way. And an album hasn’t stuck with me this long since To pimp a butterfly

Some subreddits managed to do it when the topic was very specific and the mods were dedicated. I’m thinking of r/AskHistorians and r/Askphilosophy

Both options are non-ideal. Some mods are on a power trip and public opinion can vary wildly depending on the thread/community

Overwatch 2 basically reminded me that there are single player games that you fully pay for one time and that range from as relaxing–intense as you’re in the mood for. Now I’m playing Stardew valley and Slay the spire while I’m watching TV and movies. If I feel like action, I’ll play more Yakuza

Personally I can’t stand the gearing up phase of BR. So boring to have to find weapons every time only to get taken out by some guy more skilled than you

Using Lemmy seems better in a mobile browser than in the app. But maybe that’s just me

They’re really pulling a No Man’s Sky here. I hope the game continues to see development

I love a good shitpost, but it probably wouldn’t mesh with the Beehaw ethos.

Anime, for everything good and holy, please add anime lol

Depends on whether Reddit deletes NSFW content once they go public

Facebook dies due to privacy concerns and misinformation. Twitter under threat because Elon. Imgur just deleted their NSFW content. Reddit with its API pricing. Twitch executives also getting greedy. Youtube has been going down for years.

It feels like we’re seeing the natural life-cycle of social media companies in real time.

reddit has so many users that basically all interests are covered. I can look up an discussion thread on relatively obscure anime/manga that came out 8 years ago. That’s hard to compete with and why I won’t be quitting reddit entirely.

After what Blizzard did to Overwatch, I can’t bring myself to buy their games. Same with EA. But to each his own.

I don’t have the answer but I share your sentiment.

One thing I hated about reddit is the mods would ban you for participating on certain subs. For instance, I got banned from r/WhitePeopleTwitter for commenting in a r/Conservative thread. (I was actually disagreeing with someone, but that’s neither here nor there.)

The Fediverse feels like a worse version of that phenomenon. Entire communities are blocked off from each other by the admins of the instance. I fear that Lemmy might become a disjointed group of echo-chambers. Some might argue that reddit already is.

Like I said, #3 and #5 aren’t a problem if you know about federation. But without understanding the concept of federation you might have some misunderstandings about Lemmy. For example, you might think that when you sign up for an instance you can only see communities on that instance. So the choice of instance becomes very important. Alternatively, you might think that all instances are automatically connected. So you might not know that instance admins can block other instances (like how beehaw blocks lemmygrad). Then, because you want nothing to do with lemmygrad, you might decide not to be a part of Lemmy.

By point #6, I just meant to say that Lemmy is a much smaller community than redditors are used to.

Also, as an addendum, not all of these are problems for me. Clearly, I’m using Lemmy so I made it past these hurdles lol. But, yeah, some people are going to see that you have to write an essay and just nope outta here. Some of those people aren’t toxic, they’re just lazy. And, in many ways, Lemmy forces you to go that extra mile which is going to hurt its user growth.

And let’s be honest: reddit has some of the best NSFW content on the internet. Extremely specific interests all curated into their own respective subs. In many cases, this content goes back years