Being simple and honest is a virtue if the things you're saying are principled, being simple and honest when you're a slimy businessperson with zero sense of moral agency just makes you a fucking leech

All I'll say is, this is one of the huge advantages of FOSS. If a website is run by bigots and people tolerant of abhorrent behavior, that's part of the website. But if FOSS was written by someone of that ilk, you can take the toys they made for you and play elsewhere -- they showed their hand as soon as they submitted their project under an open source license, and it's too late now.

What I do think is worth mentioning is that I wouldn't be averse to forking conceptually -- on a political basis, sure, but as lemmy grows rapidly I think it's tremendously worthwhile to pay attention to any forks that fix issues and growing pains with lemmy as a service. It seems particularly restrictive on the backend in some ways (could be wrong) and I think that using a more feature rich fork should such a thing appear would definitely be to beehaw's benefit. But that's a conversation for when that day comes, and not one that should be predicated on "lemmy=tankies=bad" but rather on "does this fork serve our userbase more", which is both a healthier question to ask and one more in line with the community being cultivated here. All this is hypothetical or course, but it's worth talking to these ends early on imo

One day, after school, I decided to tinker with the Mac systems at my school, and in that process I learned that Mac has a virtual drive that it uses as a setup medium that it doesn't clear, it just un-mounts, when you finish installing. So I just re-mounted the setup drive on the computer from the command line, restarted, booted in like I was setting up a fresh new computer and gave myself an admin account on one of the computers in our lab. Didn't really do anything nefarious with it, but it was a fun little experiment regardless

honestly as long as the stuff that discord is monetizing stays additive instead of changing services we already use to be paid-for, I really don't mind if discord gives creators (and, by way of that, themselves) ways to generate revenue. Discord, even as a completely free service, is really far ahead of other similar platforms and offerings. I don't expect them to be 100% consumer-first at the expense of generating profits (as much as i wish it were feasible for them to be), but the ways in which they've done that so far have been surprisingly unobtrusive.

afaik, jerboa's the only option. I actually like the UI for lemmur, but it's abandoned and doesn't seem like anyone's forking + updating it so for the time being, we only have jerboa.

I did see a toolkit that translates reddit API calls to lemmy API calls, which might be useful if any reddit app dev has any interest in translating their app to work for the fediverse, but I'm not sure how likely that is

Calling them virtues is charitable if you're doing this while willfully refusing to acknowledge the fact that you stand on millions of hours of volunteer labor and you'd rather spit on them than give them their due. It's a lie by omission.

I'd like to ask, what kinds of communities are you trying to make space for here on beehaw? I know this whole instance isn't trying to be a reddit replacement, but it seems like there's some amount of hobby space over here? Where are the lines for what kinds of hobby spaces have a home on beehaw? i.e. will there be an anime/manga instance at some point? Where do you draw the line on specificity as well? There's a gaming community, but what about ones for specific games? I figure that's out of scope for beehaw, but I'm just trying to get an idea for what the future of the community is as far as hobbyist spaces are here, given that's largely what I used reddit for

I wish I liked jerboa more as an app, the fact that I cant hold to hide comments, the fact that opening comments in my inbox requires more than just clicking on the comment, how tricky it is to sub to communities from multiple instances -- it's just really fidgety and I wish that a smoother app existed. But it's good enough for the time being

Yeah, agree with all of the above. I've worked in community management before so I totally understand where you're coming from, growth that's sustainable is more important than growth at all costs, and anything that threatens that should be handled carefully. I hope that the interest persists though, because if you do manage to create that space (and i think the fediverse and more specifically beehaw are well equipped to create that space) it could be something very special :)

Honestly, great point. Aggregators don't need a hugely enfranchised userbase, just enough people that share a few interests and suddenly, functionally, it's comparable to reddit. Only thing it's missing is a huge knowledge base of questions already answered, but for the most part that's not the bulk of my reddit experience and something else will replace it for that in time. But as long as there's some people here, it's doing it's job

No game has ever occupied so much of my mind as NieR: Automata. I beat the game, thought "huh, that was pretty good", and then thought about it again the next day. and again. and again. again. again. again. again. again. I just could not stop thinking about what the game was trying to say or how it made me feel, and it's just become more and more important to me as time has gone on. Really incredible game

Gotcha, that makes sense. Honestly, the one missing space for me is a place to talk about anime/manga, like I previously specifically mentioned. Especially one that exists in such a well moderated space, lots of times those really easily veer into degeneracy/bigotry in a way that's really unhealthy, and I think having a productive place to engage with those hobbies would be wonderful. Obviously you're slowing down so please don't take this as me demanding it be added now, but I do think that beehaw would be uniquely positioned to have a specifically good anime community, which I would genuinely appreciate.

Yeah, that's fair. I don't think its intrinsic to anime or its fandom, so I think it's fine to have the community around, but I totally empathize with hesitance to start the community here.

if you click on a link to an instance iirc it opens that instance in your web browser rather than displaying it by way of your instance, allowing you to subscribe to it. It's strange

Sure, and when that day comes I'm there to criticize discord for it. But, given they need to make money (they have to, they don't have the option to just operate at a loss for the rest of time), it's worth acknowledging their attempts to make money without infringing on the service the users actually signed up for.

Hey! @pixel@urusai.social here, into games (competitive, narrative-driven, and indie largely) like hearthstone, valorant, guild wars 2, omega strikers, genshin, a whole host really -- as well as anime and whatever else my whims sort of guide me too, but those are the stable interests :) also a furry but only really in name? I kinda just congregate around the furries in other communities it seems haha> Chat

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+1 here, funnily. But only kind of? Kinda associated with the community when I was younger, grew a little away from it but still consider myself one? Just happy to be a dog on the internet I suppose haha

Holy shit no way me too

That's a high bar to clear I hope I can be that cool one day