Due to how haphazard it’s been with community growth, there’s always the possibility that another one will take off if spam or other issues start piling up here.
For now there’s a tiny amount of content at all, let alone spam.
Although I must admit, having the proper “Football” community instead of “Soccer” is nice.
I tapped on one of those in your post’s body and my OS tried to fire up an email… Baby steps. We’re getting there. I’m getting hiccups with the community search as well but it seems to be intermittent. The search also seems to be case sensitive
Minus the sus stuff that used to show up when anyone googled “Reddit”.
Seriously, how were we ever okay with one of the site’s flagship communities revolving around perving on children. I even remember thinking it wasn’t that bad because “hey I’m not the one using that subreddit” but wtf
I also think with federation it’s different than with something like a small local subreddit. On the sub for my (small, racist, generally regressive) country, I reveled in seeing smug assholes get voted down to hell for saying something that suggested that not only were they justified in saying something bigoted, but that they were above some “trend” of “pretending” that “things were not how they really were”.
I think that kind of reinforcement also helped form an identity for that community, that we were all together in fighting bad ideas.
I don’t know how that applies to federated communities, I’m even commenting from another community so I don’t know how welcome my feedback would be here. But that’s my $.02
Are there any plans at all for a traditional app? I understand that there is an appeal to keeping things completely free from any App Store shenanigans, a certain freedom that comes with web apps over native apps.
I do feel like that about Apollo. It’s crazy how different the Fediverse feels via a UI that copies Apollo pretty closely, I feel like I just dropped into a gaggle of tiny subs. Sure most features are missing, but the progress is so fast.
I still am pretty bummed about losing the old site. I’ve spent so long there. But I was hopping sites before and it’s now wrong to start doing that again. Complacency is how we get apps like Instagram, which are more ads than pictures of friends (which is all I want out of that platform)
Have you played the MediEvil games?
Not an amateur producer at all, but a few years ago I was listening to a lot of YouTube mixes while working. Lofi stuff might be cookie cutter elevator music to you, but I loved some mixes over others. I got attached to some of them, and discovered a ton of artists that way. These were single, long videos with many tracks each.
My heart sank when I started finding some of them turn into broken links. I figured out YouTube-DL and got to archiving. I found some reuploads of playlists I liked such as the wonderful Morning Coffee by the amazing SoulSearchAndDestroy (the lead song, damn fine coffee by mtbrd, is one of my favorite lofi tracks ever). Other playlists have been lost to time.
Sometimes I skim through my archived playlists to find a song I can remember in my head, and sometimes I don’t find the song, and it’s possible that I will never find it again. Again, silly for this to happen with lofi of all things (one of the most dispassionate and almost disposable genres of music).
I still think YouTube is unmatched for music discovery. Yes, you’re clicking on songs for “bad” reasons such as the thumbnail or recognizing the curator’s channel, but it worked pretty damn well for me.