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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • (I’m making this post so that people who love Lemmy can help me understand, not to hate. I want to love Lemmy)

    I’ve been on Lemmy since the reddit migration and every day I dislike it more.

    I never understand what people are talking about when they say they like Lemmy for the “closer community”, most posts I see barely have any comments, and the ones that are there mostly look no different to what I used to see on Reddit.

    the smaller community results in less posts about less topics, so it’s difficult for me to find anything I’m interested in. on Reddit I could join dozens of videogame-specific or niche hobby subs and they’d all be at least a little active, here it seems the only posts I can get to show in my feed are environmental and big tech doomerism and occasionally some Linux discussion, with very few memes or otherwise just funny/easy posts. I like talking about Linux, sure, but I don’t want a sinking feeling in my gut every time I wanna scroll idly.

    there just seems to be a lot of toxicity here on top of everything. I’m constantly seeing people arguing or being rude about Linux opinions, big tech/privacy topics, etc. I worry it’s a bit more of an echo chamber than reddit ever was for me as well. I feel there are just a lot of perspectives I’m not getting here.

    I left reddit because I hate the business decisions they’re making, but every day I get closer to going back. I don’t want to support such a shitty company that treats users more like cattle than customers, but I’m struggling to adjust to Lemmy even all these months later.








  • I played the original on Gameboy and loved it, but this new release confuses me. it feels like they didn’t really add anything compared to the original? like, the graphics have been brought into the modern era, and there’s local multiplayer, sure. But it still looks like exactly the same game otherwise?? no new levels, no new concepts like a level builder or new stage/puzzle mechanics, no new items, interactables, or even collectables. Just the same game again with a fresh coat of paint. I don’t get it. do people want $60 USD “beautified” (original pixel style looked better imo) Gameboy games now?

    to be clear I’m being genuine here, if you’re excited for this game please help me understand why, I want to be hyped for this with how important this game was for me as a kid



  • my old desktop was named George, inspired by the word “GeForce” on the gpu. my new one is Leo, mostly because I just like that name, but also because it’s my first desktop built for linux. My first server was Bertha bc its physical size was a lot bigger than I expected and I had to find a new place to store it, and my newest server is even bigger so I named it Marge. My clunky old 16" laptop from 2010 is named Mondo.