Also I do not like having to run Steam because I feel like that defeats the point of using free OS…
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Are you RMS levels of staunch who lives and sleeps by FLOSS principles? If no, Steam is just fine. If you started using Linux for ideological and not functional reasons, maybe Linux is not your thing.
Sounds like nostalgia there, I remember around 2006 old reddit was a lot like 4chan, where link Russian roulette was seriously a thing, and I saw things I wish I never did on what seemed like a harmless thread. Reddit’s always had a shady, icky layer to me. There’s also the mass, thoughtless consumerism that doesn’t help things along.
I suppose lack of retro gaming discussion is simply because of amount of users, as the site grows I 100% expect it to be made and created. I’ve noticed a lot of comrades like Oblivion for some reason (I personally love modding it like one of those train sets models people spend years on). On emus a rom community perhaps?
I want stuff about retro games, emulator games, Flash games, pre 2010 popular titles. When DRM and DLC was a rarity, and devs made good games with passion. Relics of the past that are still alive.
Just a crazy idea, but why not make lemmy invite-only like lobsters so if someone repeatedly does harm we can disable invitations for the inviter? Everyone on lemmy would be able to invite after one month (or so) if you have at least X karma.
Thats fair. I didn’t really even get into Reddit until 2012. So I probably never noticed plus I mostly browsed on Sync on my phone and never really dealt with the website itself which imo is where things really went down hill.
first of all BiglyBT is a Bittorrent protocol whereas I2P is its own protocol. You could try and find another torrent or wait until there’s some seeder, which usually happens after some time.
www.gutenberg.org should probably also be mentioned in that regard, although it’s only for things that are now in the public domain, wheras 1lib/zlibrary has “everything”
I’ve been using Mastodon for a couple of years now and it’s become significantly more active in that time from what I see anecdotally. That said, I’d say the key question for health is whether the community is big enough to support ongoing development and hosting. I think at this point the answer to both questions is a definite yes. There are millions of users in the Fediverse now, plenty of users are technical and are actively contributing.
I think we’ll see active users fluctuate over time, but I don’t see the core base of users abandoning Fediverse at this point because they’ve already established their social networks here.
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