It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.

I’m not a Lemmy admin, but from what I’m seeing, there’s been an uptick of 4,000 Lemmy registrations within the last 24 hours.

There’s now 477,048 Lemmy accounts.

Congrats. Canada needs to build its own social media infrastructure.

On every retrogaming forum I’ve ever been on, this has been a topic and it’s been a topic for at least 15 years. A few practical bits of advice:

1. The cheapest games will always be last generations games
2. Anything not deemed “retro” yet is cheap
3. Nintendo is always super expensive unless it’s Wii or handheld
4. Anything Xbox is cheap
5. PC is cheap, unless it’s big box, but even then sellers will sell big box for cheap because they often don’t know what they have
6. There’s nothing wrong with buying from GOG, burning to disc, and making your own labels and box art—which is easy to do because it’s DRM-free
7. Except for PS1, Sony is cheap. But even then PS1 is cheaper than N64 or Saturn.
8. Nothing wrong with an Everdrive, especially since that’s the best way to play aftermarket games

It’s so funny. If Trump shut the hell up for at least a year, he would have had a Canadian government that was completely pliable to his demands. But he had to yap, and now Poilievre is no shoe-in.

You don't need to wait on Mastodon to do it.

Obviously, I'm not talking about you specifically -- Threadiverse devs generally.

For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.

That’s the same talking points the alt-right uses and we don’t tolerate it.

And I’ve been on the Internet long enough to watch so-called “progressive” spaces get hijacked by the right wing under the guise of “free speech”.

When a culture grows toxic, it’s simply toxic no matter their talking points.

So the fact people have the power to block entire instances at their discretion, this is a good thing.

You are not entitled to my attention, nor am I entitled to yours.

It’s similar to how Twitter users say Mastodon is “hard”. They want a 1:1 copy of Reddit or Twitter, and don’t want to learn new things because any kind of learning at all is unpleasant.

But that will change when—not if—the network effect of the social web becomes apparent.

Okay, but this hairstyle is awesome.

Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.

Not bad.

I categorize Linux and Steam Deck as "PC exclusive" because it kind of doesn't matter: ProtonDB makes the vast majority of Windows games playable anyway.

Where it definitely matters is in the realm of PC vs. console. Most of these games don't have a console release.

No one is entitled to attention, and sometimes people need to take a breather for their own mental health.

State capitalism is still capitalism.

You have freedom of speech. I also have the freedom to walk away from your speech and listen to someone else.

What if I told you anyone can run their own server and consequently have the freedom to federate with who they wish?

The value of the Fediverse isn’t just freedom of speech. It’s freedom of association.

I'm not suggesting that you sell your DIY GOG package to someone else. I'm suggesting you do that for yourself.

Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.

Well, you seem to be upset that people are able to block entire instances. That’s just a weird stance for an anarchist to have.

Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @fediversenews@venera.social. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.

Lemmy could easily support this feature.

This was posted in December.