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ZOOM Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS by bigmclargehuge in c/gaming@lemmy.zip

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Knowing this along with the game STALKER, it seems like Ukrainian studios are the kings of immersive jank.

Recommendations to watch Youtube on TV by bigmclargehuge in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 hours ago

Would a Roku work? Forgive my ignorance, not sure if they count as android based

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 hours ago

Thanks so much! Great info. I had a question - can I group communities together into a custom feed? I can currently view all subscribed on my Home feed. But if I have , for example, 6 news communities, can I group them into a single “MyNews” style feed?

Diarrhea forever vs free puppies by bigmclargehuge in c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Per an article from last week, she hasn't "ruled it out" but hasn't committed to it either.

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Ohh! Right on! I'm rocking EndeavourOS. Been my desktop go-to for a while. And just started the community here. Love me some debian though, it powers all the servers in my homelab.

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Oh my goodness you're correct! Ty so much

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago

I'm an iOS guy, and have been sideloading Apollo. But even then, reddit has been slowly coming after that. So grateful I found lemmy before they completely pull the plug there.

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

No you're absolutely correct. I vividly remember reddit 18 years ago. Pretty much every post on every subreddit was intentional. Early on, even the concept of comments on posts was disputed as a good feature or not. Now its entirely different. The big reddits now are ones like poursTea, sipsTea, different variations of infuriating, and WhitePeopleTwitter, etc. They're all basically rage bait holes, designed to get an emotional reaction out of you, and the comments are people arguing with bots, or bots arguing with bots. And with the scale on reddit now, you can effectively doomscroll /r/all, as more and more posts flood in. It's not far off from Instagram and TikTok.

Lemmy has less posts, less upvotes, but they are all [presumably, hell I'm sure there's an exception] real.

It's feels like trading in a giant box of cheese balls for a small, but very nicely cooked steak. Smaller but actually filling.

Y'all, this is incredible! by bigmclargehuge in c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

[-] bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Ty so much for the tips! I'll look into all of those. To start, I sat down with my subreddit list, found correlating communities here, subscribed. Now my subscription feed here looks very similar to my legacy reddit home feed.

I wanted to ask about starting a community. As I understand it, you have to be an admin (or a privileged user of some kind) in order to create a community on a given domain/federation. Is there a process to go about doing that, or is it more correct to start your own federation?

The reason I ask is that my favorite linux distro doesn't have a lemmy. I think it'd be awesome to start it up. I'm not against going through the labor of spinning up a lemmy if that's most correct, but would prefer leverage what already exists, if that's a possiblity.

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Y'all, this is incredible! (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by bigmclargehuge@lemmy.zip to c/newtolemmy@lemmy.ca

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I'm an old reddit user, going back to '08. Like many of you I'm sure, I've seen the site rise and fall. Killing 3p apps was a major blow, along with the purge of so many subreddits, and now you have to log in to even view it...it's getting real bad.

I had heard of the fediverse back when Mastadon was first announced. Briefly checked it out, but didn't give it much mind. This morning I was browsing reddit and read a thread about the continual degradation of the site. Someone mentioned Lemmy (new to me), but I thought "hey! I'll check it out, why not''. A brief google search gave me some iOS apps, and I wound up using Voyager (10/10 btw, Voyager reminds me a lot of Apollo in it's hayday). I applied/logged in....and just...wow. Wow y'all. Lemmy reminds me so much of reddit circa late 00's. Sure, there is a smaller user base, but so was reddit at the time. I remember the subreddit you were supposed to go to when you made an acccount and introduce yourself :D

And here on Lemmy, nothing looks like obvious bot posts. Content seems real. In correlation with that, the post titles seem pretty reasonable and not based around rage bait / click bait.

After setting it up on my phone, I found the desktop site (I'm on a laptop some times) and I adore a.lemmy.zip. To me its the perfect layout. The other incredible thing about Lemmy is just how seamless it was to set up, on both mobile and desktop. It feels super accessible to non-technical users, which is something I don't think is true for a lot of fediverse things.

But seriously, I used to adore reddit so much. Watching it fall apart has made me sadder and sadder over time. There was seemingly nothing in its place. I really felt like that era of internet over entirely. Just my first few hours on Lemmy has made me realize I was wrong, in the best way possible. It gave me chills. I'm looking forward to this platform growing. So anyway, thanks for any/all of you who developed/are developing Lemmy. It really, truly feels like a return to the golden age of social.