to anyone looking for somewhere other than Lemmy I’d like to suggest mbin. I’ll admit it’s not perfect (especially on mobile, interstellar is decent but it’s the only app and has some bugs) but it handles reddit-style content pretty much the same as Lemmy except for the lack of read-marking on posts. as a bonus, it handles microblogs so you can see those without an account on mastodon or something similar.

you are aware that you aren’t restricted to things on your instance right? what your talking about is literally what the fediverse is. also who cares how big an instance is?

why can’t they just let the games be games

I’ll check that out as well

I’ll check it out

no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don’t see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.

nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.

extensions (in my testing, typically in a VM of fedora or openSUSE) are a pain in the ass to use. it’s also difficult to find the one that I’m looking for because there’s generally several with the same name. something like a system tray (iirc the extension is “app indicators”) or having the dock always visible on the desktop (idk what the extension is called) are features that most people who don’t already use gnome rely on to some degree. these things are core functionality of most desktops precisely because most people use and like these features, and adding a few of the most popular features won’t add enough extra data to really be bloat.

quick sidenote, while typing this I realized the way I have been phrasing things may sound a little aggressive. it's not meant to, this is meant to be more of a breakdown of why I think what I do about gnome as a desktop. I'm not sure how to rephrase this to be less aggressive, so I'm leaving this bit right where I noticed it instead.

I personally am very big on having all the customization I can get (kde user, obviously) but I actually did almost stick with gnome once. I tried vanilla is because orchid has just come out and while I was messing with it I found out that it had the dock extension available by default (was new to Linux at the time and didn’t know how to actually use extensions yet) and with that dock extension I didn’t mind gnome as much. the thing with gnome is that it has a lot of good ideas but it ruins a lot of them by only half-implementing what everyone else is already doing. most people would probably find it a lot more usable if it just had features that have been standard since literally the beginning of GUIs, and used to be standard in gnome.

why do you tend to unconsciously regard someone as the same gender you are until you learn otherwise? humans have a tendency to treat things as like us until we learn otherwise. this is part of why we tend to treat animals as if they have emotions like ours even though that may not necessarily be true for a lot of them. it’s simply that the people making stuff about aliens are unconsciously defaulting to something human-like.

most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there’s nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.

kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it’s a little odd but I like it.

I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it’s a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.

sounds like they are doing what the 3ds did with some upgrades. hopefully the “AI” is actually useful instead of just being injected into a product that doesn’t need it.

how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it’d be unfair not to mention them)?

well I’d say since non-federated Lemmy is just a forum with a bunch of stuff for federation that you won’t use, there’s no point. if you want a forum, then Lemmy is the wrong answer. Lemmy is (or at least is designed to be) an open-source, federated copy of reddit, keeping the good parts while removing the corpo stuff and adding the benefits that open-source and federation bring. with only one instance, it’s little more than a mediocre forum.

why use Lemmy instead of just being a normal forum if you aren’t going to federate?

that’s fine bc nobody can run it anyway. just do your graphics like control and it’ll run fine even without upscaling.

I (after a lot of prior distro hopping) went from neon to tuxedo OS and have had very few issues, and only one that was major (was my own fault).

it’s a measurement of how much money was spent on development, it means absolutely nothing about the actual game and is very misleading.

you can tell this was made by a Mac user bc it implies that macs are the only functional computers.