It would be kind of ironic to have an isitdown community on Lemmy itself. If an instance it down nobody from there would be able to post, and if the instance the community is made on is down then then none of the posts would federate

I was coming to comment this. I’ve used a lot of free video editing software over the years and most of them are ass. The ones that aren’t usually have a catch like watermarking your output. Davinci resolve came out of nowhere for me and blew me away, it’s everything you could want in a video editing program but free!

Oh come on, I just started using it two days ago! Libreddit often doesn’t work these days.

You should give it a shot, it’s pretty fun and West of Loathing isn’t that long to finish.

There’s a Github issue specifically for this

West of Loathing and its sequel Shadows of Loathing have a bland grayscale artstyle on the outside but they’re absolutely hilarious RPGs that have a lot of heart to them.

I have had some people refuse to even try Baba Is You, because it looks ugly.

Oh come on, the art style is charming!

Could you mention what apps you needed to run?

I don’t remember which they were exactly but some Adobe products were some of them. Specifically Illustrator.

Also, fractional scaling has been improved a lot in Gnome and KDE, afaik.

I hope so. I’ve last been on Linux like ~2 years ago and I’ve heard some good changes.

A few apps I needed didn’t work on Linux without a hassle and a lot of games I play with friends only run on Windows. I also found a lot of things were kind of a hassle on Linux, especially screen scaling. Fractional screen scaling straight up barely works and everything on my laptop screen was usually tiny.

I would totally go back when the experience is a bit nicer, I’m pretty frustrated with Windows. I think the Linux desktop experience isn’t totally ready imo.

No Schweppes? For shame.

Also, cheers to my milk tea brethren.

Reddit had ways to automatically catch people trying to manipulate votes though, at least the obvious ones. A friend of mine posted a reddit link for everyone to upvote on our group and got temporarily suspended for vote manipulation like an hour later. I don’t know if something like that can be implemented in the Fediverse but some people on github suggested a way for instances to share to other instances how trusted/distrusted a user or instance is.

Don’t know if it counts but I hate my alarm so much that I sometimes wake up 1 minute before it triggers.

Some kind of door knocker?

Literally nobody has ever said this lol

I’m for blocking Threads. I’m not for blocking instances that support Threads. That’s ridiculous, you’d just split the community and make the Fediverse irrelevant.

Not quite. Blocked means you won’t see any of their posts, it’s something users can do.

Defederating is something instance admins can do. Defederating from an instance means everyone in your instance can’t see their posts, and they can’t see ours from here on out.

Here’s where people get confused: even after defederating, their communities and all of their older content still exists here. But, you can think of them as “dead” communities. Anything you post there won’t be federated, meaning only your instance will see what you post there. All other instances won’t see your post on a community you’ve defederated with, so it’s important to stop posting there and instead post on communities you’re federated with.

It’ll only get better from here at least. There are good suggestions floating around that, if implemented, will make Lemmy a lot easier to use as a platform. Having an easier on-boarding experience like Mastodon will go a long way, and people have suggested being able to merge communities by having them mirror each-other which would be great.

But I think people need to let go of the idea that Lemmy should cater to the average person or be bigger than Reddit. The Fediverse isn’t a replacement for social media, it’s an alternative. We don’t need 100 million active users. I’m pretty happy at where we are now, and hope that the community will grow over time to maybe get to one million.

Some people want to follow Reddit content without opening it. You can block the bot posting these if it’s annoying. I did that and never saw it again.

There is a tagged release and I assume an official release is soon to come