Holy shit y'all. Developers need to eat too. It's totally fine to charge for an app or serve ads. LjDawson is a fantastic developer and really listens to his user base. Yes there are plenty of open source apps to use, but sometimes closed source is way more polished because the developer makes it their job to create the app. Living isn't free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Great fucking article. Nice look into the history of proprietary software. This part stuck out to me:

But there’s one thing my own experience with XMPP and OOXML taught me: if Meta joins the Fediverse, Meta will be the only one winning. In fact, reactions show that they are already winning: the Fediverse is split between blocking Meta or not. If that happens, this would mean a fragmented, frustrating two-tier fediverse with little appeal for newcomers.

We need to convince instance owners not to federate with Meta. History tends to repeat itself and I'd rather not see this nice little corner of the internet die.

We are just ignoring the fact that a book above is titled, "Everybody poops 10000 pounds?"

Wait is this actually a thing? I've always wondered why I never stick with something long enough to master it. I can hyperfocus when I want to but holy shit this would make so much sense.

Honestly I hope so. I like this little corner of the internet. What the mods of beehaw do is entirely up to them. If they wish to keep themselves defederated that is fine. They know that what they did was a basic nuke to their instance. They were struggling and made the right call.

I'm a former beehaw user and I honestly think they made the right call for their space. They want it to be safe and inclusive for everyone, so the large influx of users at l.world and s.i.j.w was leading trolls to beehaw in droves. No, they don't intend to defederate from all instances. In fact, this defederation is most likely temporary until they either get more moderators, or the other two instances settle down some.

As of right now, yes your account would go poof. Mastodon currently has a way to migrate servers, but it hasn't been implemented in Lemmy yet. I'm sure at some point it will become available, but if you are worried about all your posts I'd make local backups for now.

Was about to say that there is no cutoff age. I distinctly remember my grandfather playing RPGs on the Super Nintendo when I was a kid. That man played most of his life and well into his older years. Do what you love to do man. Ignore those who don't appreciate that you have a hobby you actually enjoy.

WELCOME TO SUMMONER'S RIFT

I like OpenCritic for game reviews now. It's a site that aggregates a lot of reviews into one site. If not there I always trust steam reviews of games.

Bro who hurt you?

The food is diner food. Not bad for what you pay for it. Tastes amazing when drunk or high. It's a staple in the Midwest and the South!

8bitdo. Great controllers those. Also nice keyboard.

Honestly I'd rather have a smaller community to interact with. Less bullshit that way.

Climate change and global warming. Less people = less warming.

Or, more likely, just quickly create another user and continue to harrass Blahaj. You are correct in that lemmy needs better admin tools. However, when Reddit was young it also didn't have very good admin tools. The devs probably couldn't have predicted this massive influx of users, so they didn't put as much time into the administration tools.

Okay all I can think about is how much of a pain in the ass this would be to clean.

No. In a previous post he mentioned that Google has really cracked down on apps that are too similar. I really enjoyed Sync Pro in the past, but looks like papa Google said no.

This is the correct answer. A hands on approach is the best approach for a subject like this.

I'm not on l.world. Even so I should be able to visit the main instance and see the top posts.

Agreed. The only benefit I really see from sustained growth is the growth of smaller sub-communities. Something like /c/vivariums or /c/modeltrains. The larger lemmy is the more likely there will be fresh content in those smaller communities.

Yeah Barbie is played by this really good actress! Looking forward to seeing her in more stuff!

Yes you should be able to edit the comments. But those edited comments will remain in those other servers. Also if you make a ton of comments do you really want to edit them all?

A lot of server owners do this already. The instance I'm on for example does this and also disclosed that they would donate any "proceeds" to the development of Lemmy. So they are only paying for upkeep costs.

Agreed that would be a huge pain.

hackernews is bigoted? Well that's news. I had no idea.

I use Notion for organizing my DnD campaign. Love how this is looking so far. I'll add a feature request for linking to other pages, and implementation of a table in each note. Thanks for your work!

Wow really? How the hell are they staying afloat?

Okay let's do the math. According to here there is expected to be about 55.79 million folks using reddit daily. Let's say a good 5 million folks use Sync. Now, reddit said it would charge $0.24 per 1000 API calls. You can find that here. Now 1000 calls isn't much at all really. Let's say those 5 million folks just 1000 API calls a day ( they wont' actually use ONLY 1000 ). So we have 1000 * 5,000,000 * 0.24 = $1,200,000,000. That's per day. Does that seem sustainable to you? Like if folks were using MUCH MUCH less I could see your point. But the fact is....they weren't and reddit were being assholes about it. Now compare that to what he's charging. $17 bucks for a year. Let's break that down and compare it to what he'd be paying per day. Say all 5 million users were paying for Ultra. That's 5,000,000 * 17 = $85,000,000. Divide that by 12 to get per month. 85,000,000/12 = $7,083,333 per month. Divide by 30 for average revenue per day. $7,083,333/30 = $236,111. Now tell me that even comes close to $1,200,000,000. Your logic is flawed. This doesn't even account for fees and possible server costs.

Okay so say I believe you. Why do you think a large majority of third party devs shuttered their projects they worked on for so long if it was just as easy as adding a subscription fee? Why didn't more of them do it? I know of one that actually implemented a subscription. If folks were actually doing much less than 1000 API calls daily then you'd think most devs would have gone that way right?

Very very unlikely. Considering the underlying point of Lemmy is that it is decentralized, the devs would have to add something similar and possibly every instance would have it's own place.

Recently picked up the Kingsenton Slimblade Pro. Love it.

Man a good pair of headphones goes such a long way. I'm still using my DT 770 Pros. I love those damn things.

Yep, used another browser and it works fine. Weird.

Any possibility of them releasing a gesture typing library with this? I can't seem to find one in the wild.

Unfortunately right now the Miyoo devices are nigh impossible to purchase.

Honestly I might pick this one up just for the size upgrade. Seems a bit nicer for longer sessions. Battery life okay?

I use the same. It's simple and beautiful.

How's the size? I have the Miyoo mini and the size hurts my hands if I p play for too long.

No 2fa....yet. It's in the works. For now you should be using an email to register. If not I don't know what instance you are on as Lemmy by default requires an email.