It's important that you take care of yourselves. Not for Beehaw, but for your own well-being. The community will be here, or it won't. It doesn't really matter. We can all learn from whatever comes.

It's also important that people understand what each instance on Lemmy aims to be, and that there are various other alternatives to be found. Not everyone will fit here, not due to resources/space, but in mentality. And that's totally okay. It's like finding a friend, you can't force it.

Thanks for the icons, @UrLogicFails@beehaw.org !

And thanks to the admins for making this happen. I love the new theme for the icons. Bzzzz! 🐝

At this point let's start federating and hosting everything ourselves, lol

To be honest, this is why I decided to come over to Beehaw from the ml instance (not that I saw anything wrong there, either). But I think, in my years of being in different communities, what always ends up "killing" them is the push for growth and lack of unified cause.

We humans don't do well with too many people. There's a theory, which I subscribe to, that says our limit is around 150-250 people. I fully believe this is why such huge social media websites inevitably crumble.

And I also believe that "broad strokes" forums (or Lemmy instances, or whatever else) make the same mistake. We need something to glue us together, a common cause. I think Beehaw's is one I can get behind. Not allowing hate, general leftist causes, and so on.

lol, true! There were also too many jokes about being horny that got repeated over and over and over... and over again.

It got to a point where I knew exactly what the first comment in any given post would be.

I think it's time to get back to old habits. Back in my cyber café days (and after too, since internet was not as reliable here), I would save pages to view them later at home offline.

Manual scrapping, basically.

Getting the language reference/docs in HTML format, like I used to for PHP.

The logo is a person shouting, too.

I've had similar thoughts for these related topics without making the connection before.

There's the theory that humans as individuals have a limit of people they can interact with on a personal level (150 to 250). This means knowing things like "John likes carrot cake but hates lemon pies", but "Rita loves lemon pies and doesn't care for carrot cakes". Therefore, you know what to get for each, or what to joke about with each "hey John, I got you some lemon pies!", "ha ha ha! who do I look like? Rita?"

As we do not know the thousands of people on reddit/FB/Twitter/whatever, we end up using memes, quotes from shows, movies, games, books. People parrot old situations (in-jokes), such as the Unidan incident, without really knowing what went on beyond the text on our screens.

(Frankly, I'm mentally exhausted today and I'm gonna leave it at this. But I'm very interested in your view about this topic, and couldn't let it pass.)

As a hobbyist programmer, the answer is "no". I went to college 10+ years ago and was already outdated. I never got a job and decided to abandon this path.

A while ago I decided to move my Excel project to webdev and wanted to use one of those modern tools... Yeah, no. I felt like a grandpa trying to use a drone. I'm just going to stick to my good ol' PHP and jQuery.

There have been so many changes in such a short time, imo. It's unrealistic to keep up.

Okay, I just got the funniest thought.

What if Google resurrects Google+ (I think that was its name?)?

I deleted my last account a few days ago, and only go there whenever a relevant post is shared here, like the app devs' announcements.

Earlier today I clicked on r/all out of curiosity, and aside from the API and sub shutdown topic, everything was as I remembered: boring, regurgitated stuff that I can never tell if a bot / karma farmer reposted it, if the comments are genuine or more bots or trolls.

The only reason I actually hope these things take off is because I'm a shut-in and disabled, and would love to see the world through VR. But I imagine I'm part of a very tiny minority.

Add to that, I'm South American and live with 6k USD a year (comfortably, for now). I could save up, but there's no way I'm spending more than 400-500 USD on a headset, no matter which brand it is.

Apple is a status symbol in my country. Everything that gets imported here costs triple what it costs in the US. And it offers nothing better or different than what I can get from my Android devices for free.

Not sure if there's enough people right now for that, but eventually, it would be interesting.

And, this is my personal opinion, so long as there's a general agreement that it's entirely for funsies and not to be the next r/conspiracy.

Thank you!

It's very sad to see this happen, all things considered.

reddit might not be what it was when I first joined it, but I spent many years there and had a good time. I mostly used RIF on Android, but for a while last year I had an iPhone (a gift) and used Apollo. It was the closest thing to RIF in the App Store.

If you're on iOS and want to help him, he also has this app that he'll depend on from now on: https://apps.apple.com/...

It really depends on where you live.

In my country, inflation is running amok, and you're better off paying today because publishers/developers on Steam change their prices constantly to keep up with the local mayhem. And this year we have presidential elections, so who knows what things will look like in September...

(Personally, while I was looking forward to this one, I think they have gone too far with the local price, so I won't pre-order. And here I thought CS2 was too expensive!)

It was bound to happen, after Apollo.

First app I bought, back in 2016. Such a shame that reddit has done this.

You just made me realize that I hadn't been following any niche subs by the end of it.

I think the only sub I will really, really miss is r/TipOfMyTongue. They were amazing. You could throw them a random memory of your childhood 30 years ago, and within minutes they tell you what it is, a link to the thing, and all that.

Most of the help subs were like that, too. The very essence of the internet, helping each other out, with no barriers.

Thanks for taking on this role for the community!