I’m probably gonna go full Linux, I already run it on my laptop and my closet computer lol

I wonder if Steam OS will be ready for desktops before this

• An Android Authority app teardown has revealed that Google is working on an inactivity reboot feature.
• This security feature would reboot devices if they’ve been locked for three consecutive days.

Pretty cool, three days is kinda long for someone’s primary phone though, I wonder if they’ll let you reduce that to 24 hours or something

What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user?

I don’t think it’s always easy to pinpoint UX issues and user friction. Sometimes these things just don’t stick with mainstream users. I say it’s worth a try to see which platform the average Reddit user will prefer.

But if you’re gonna use from a phone, Lemmy’s selection of mobile apps is unbeatable.

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

The rate of growth does matter yea. If an instance gets worried, they can lock signups. Slow growth means the software has time to improve as they notice issues.

Lemmy had many issues scaling before, except Lemmy had huge surges with the Reddit API blackouts.

If people start recommending PieFed now, it’s on their own terms instead of a massive wave. They can backoff if they get too many users.

I think it’s unlikely that they would attract such a large number of users with 1 post on r/RedditAlternatives or something. Lemmy gets spammed everywhere and we usually don’t even gain 1000 users a day overall across all instances.

There’s already been some comments about PieFed and they didn’t result in huge surges.

We have data on what it costs to run a sizeable instance of Lemmy and it’s not a lot. How does Piefed compare? Anyone starting an instance who envisions it growing large has to contend with this question.

I don’t think this is a major concern yet. The largest PieFed instance has 308 active users, 2nd place has 34. They’ve got room to grow.

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

People can start posting about PieFed on Reddit and see how the Reddit users react.

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Maybe just every Windows version number less than or equal to 2000, to make sure it’s still retro!

like I said, hashtags are fun, but the fact that even if you follow the hashtag it only shows posts that were already federated into your instance confuses people

communities/groups will federate the posts for you if you follow, but following a hashtag does not give any federation

Even if you could follow hashtags on Lemmy, you would also need to be able to follow users for anything to show up (so that’s 2 big new features required). And since it requires following users, that would also mean a culture shift would be required, you’d need to convince your instance-mates to use their Lemmy accounts to follow people, but people are mostly here to follow communities not people.

I’m not against the features being added, I just don’t think they’re going to be as impactful to the Lemmy platform as expected.

yea I mean it’s fun to use and works well if you’re on a large instance like mastodon.social, I use it even on a medium size instance

but communities/groups work better on the fediverse, and maybe something in between the 2 could be created, some kind of federated version of hashtags

hashtags don’t work well on the Fediverse, a hashtag doesn’t have an owning instance which means there’s no way to push/pull the content by hashtag

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it depends if your Lemmy instance is configured to copy and host images, or proxy images (in which case they won’t get your IP but they’ll know when you look), or neither (they get your IP if they’re running their own instance or self-hosting the image itself)

I just sent myself a PM to test:

programming.dev shows the image as hosted from retrolemmy.com

it might also be currently bugged: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5538

It also reduces the possibility of being tracked

I think Deus Ex (2000). The gameplay is so open and full of possibilities, and the story is crazy but it works so well. It’s so replayable.

IDK Lemmy seems great to me. But if you don’t like it, check Mbin https://fedia.io/ and PieFed https://piefed.social/

Speaking of https://lemmyverse.net/ the way you set your Home Instance is by clicking the house icon in the top right, and you would type in retrolemmy.com in there

Thanks for the shout-out! Hello everyone!