I have a couple of thoughts.

1. I dont need or want Lemmy to appeal to the mainstream. Frankly, I already get all the mainstream ‘culture’ I can stand, and frequntly more.

2. I think it’s a mistake to consider Lemmy a one-to-one repacement for Reddit. I hope the fediverse can leverage the whole, y’know, federation thing. I think topic-driven instances that function similarly to the old phpBB boards is a good paradigm. It’s not about a monster site that has a board for everything. It’s more answering the question, ‘What if I could post on gamefaqs from my metal archives account?’

I guess I just think we could do better than trying to out-reddit reddit, when it comes to having a vision for the platform.

Signed, a linux using socialist.

I try to keep an eye out for repetitive tasks that might make good projects. I just started a python script that's going to download all my google photos so i can free up my cloud storage.

I think communities run by people who wish to mod them arbitrarily should be allowed to exist.

Import Driving.Self

What do you use for hosting? I'm looking for a good host and highly budget conscious.

What makes hosting with PHP cheaper than with python?

Same, i thought it was about having a manic episode or something

I wouldnt be surprised if this was suicide by cop. But its still indicative of a structural problem that such a thing is possible.

I think the crux of spec ops was less about morally judging the player or even the protagonist actions. In my opinion the driving theme of that story was encouraging critical analysis of the media we participate in, in this case, video games. It's not so much that the player had no choice but to do those bad things, the important part is the way the context of the surrounding narrative framed those choices. And then extrapolating that to other games of a similar ilk and frankly media as a whole.

It's kind of a cult classic. I remember it getting a lot of praise on neo gas and that's also why I played it. But in the larger arena of video game culture it's kind of just a footnote.

Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w

I recently switched from jerboa to Voyager, how do you do it?

Peace

I think we’re just as bored. We may in fact be worse off for having increased our “interest threshold” such that we must seek more and more stimuli in order to stave off boredom.

Doomscrolling is the new boredom.

I sort by new. It seems to work. There’s a severe lack of comments, which I am trying to do my part to rectify.

All that is solid melts into air

Please share your ad blocking strategy when you do!

I never used bare DOS, my first experience with a PC was on windows 3.1

I think about this a lot. I’m so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it’s not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same “there’s a community for anything” that reddit had.

I’m starting to hope the fediverse doesn’t get too big now, honestly. There’s a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don’t know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It’s hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can’t be fully assimilated by capital, I don’t know.

Were living in interesting times.