Yeah I could see this being a big factor. Advertising money can also mean directly paying people to use it, and hoping some of their followers might come along.

How did no one say this yet? Duke Nukem Forever E3 2001 trailer

https://youtu.be/ealHgUG1SFE?si=IZhPtdlPTLdWgvui

Unfortunately I feel like people have stopped looking for a Twitter alternative already

You could say the same thing about why they made Bluesky when Mastodon exists

Yea the Mastodon devs are seriously underestimating how lazy the average person is lol

I think it’s just discoverability of content, and probably some UX. Mastodon isn’t really a great show of what ActivityPub can do. They intentionally don’t have an “algorithm” or any kind of content discoverability. Also the federation is limited to following users, on Lemmy you can follow topics and that causes all their posts and comments to federate.

Just today I heard Bluesky is making a Reddit alternative. I’m a bit worried they overtake Lemmy.

Which games? Try mods and especially randomizers for them

https://randomizers.debigare.com/

yea it would definitely suck if it only loaded 50 comments at a time, or 50 replies under a comment, but I think it’s fine as-is

once a comment thread gets deeper than 9, it’s a slapfight that’s best avoided.

lol for sure, 9 is already a lot

I don’t understand your comment. This is a fix for a crash in the backend, I don’t see how it relates to lemmy-ui because it seems like any frontend would cause a crash with this issue if it’s hitting the same API route. Also 50 is a lot. Finding a post with 50 comments is rare, finding one with a chain of over 50 in a row is even more rare. Such a thread would be clunky to display in the main comment tree anyways.

This isn’t just a comment with 50 replies, this is 50 levels of indentation.

It’s also funny to criticize Lemmy for being biased towards its own frontend when it probably has more (active and working) frontends than any competitor (Reddit, Mbin)

Nice one!

Yeah anyone who thinks 3D games without loading screens are only possible on SSDs needs to go back and play Dungeon Siege or Asheron’s Call. GTA3 mostly didn’t have loading screens either.

The Witcher 3 wasn’t even that long ago and it didn’t need loading screens on HDDs. (traveling between the main big areas did, but I guess that’s more because they didn’t have an animation of Geralt taking a boat or something, everything else streamed fine)

EDIT: This has been hotfixed in v3.2.1, along with a new tweak for the Halloween modes!

Turns out the lighting was a bit dark for some people, and since during October the cosmetics affect the regular randomizer modes too, we will be releasing a hotfix soon. For now remember that you can use the flashlight without any energy cost, and you can also increase the Brightness Boost settings in the Rando->Visuals menu. You can also disable the memes setting entirely in Rando->Gameplay.

yea tlnet is perfect, thank you! subscribed

TL.net would be great for esports news https://tl.net/rss/news.xml

if tl is too short for a community name, maybe tl_net or teamliquid_net or something like that

it will be a good source to cross-post from (I wish Lemmy users used cross-posting more)

Yeah I think of downvotes as like micro-moderation, or crowd sourced curation. It’s generally a good feature.

that is a very ugly Tommy lol

wtf is this lol

yea idk, it’s maybe like a fun bonus sometimes, but it’s kinda like trying to put the square peg into the circle hole (where it doesn’t fit, unlike the famous meme video lol)

Unpopular opinion: IDK why people want perfect interop so much, I have a Mastodon account and a Lemmy account, big deal. We’ve got bigger fish to fry than this. The formats are different enough that you’re better off having separate accounts for microblogging and threadiverse.

Interop for similar platforms is a great feature, but for dissimilar platforms I don’t think it’s actually necessary just a novelty. Also I think people try to push this on new users as some big, useful, important feature, but I think it only confuses the new users.

Also I noticed most of the time when people complain about ActivityPub interop issues, it almost always ends up being Mastodon’s fault lol. Probably because they were early to the party and didn’t have to worry about interop and standards much back then. At least I hope it isn’t malicious lol.

I think probably the biggest holdup for 0.19.6 right now looks like https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4983

I subscribed to the issue so I can see its progress