You can just click Follow and start following someone. You don’t have to perform a copy-paste dance to bring the username back to your instance and do the following there.

Someone played on the hardest difficulty (along with enabling the option to “pistol start” every level), and left a Steam review complaining that the expansion is too hard. That got a developer response.

I think Heretic crossed with Unreal is an accurate comparison.

Enemies may have been more plentiful than in Unreal, but movement is much closer to Unreal than Heretic’s DOOM engine movement. And it’s much closer to Unreal than anything in the Quake lineage.

Also, the weapon arsenal’s style is very Heretic, but the weapon behavior is very Unreal.

Same with the levels, honestly. Style is Heretic, but the level design itself reminded me of Unreal pretty frequently. (And nothing like the puzzle-heavy, hub-based Hexen)

I listen to a lot of stuff that would be widely disliked if it were widely heard. Extremely dissonant, abstract, and harsh avant-garde metal is for very few people. It’s hard to describe it without sounding like a dopey elitist type, but I just like caustic, hostile, and often formless stuff.

The discussions here about how “today’s tech is so dumbed down” kinda makes me laugh, because it’s what I was saying when Windows 95 released.

Never left. Never would leave. Chrome was always a trap.

Have you started making trouble in your neighborhood?

Lemmy has enough user activity to fulfill my time-wasting needs.

There doesn’t need to be one website that EVERYONE is at. The Web didn’t used to be so damn consolidated.

I don’t give one shit about “Lemmy vs. Reddit”. I care about Lemmy having active communities to engage in, regardless of what is happening on some other website.

I want to report them for the fraud thing, but I’m the only one who knows about it aside from the owner, so they’d know it was me who reported it.

What’s the owner gonna do, fire you?

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Does Slashdot still have value? I read Slashdot way back in the '90s and early '00s.

I didn’t leave to make the service worse.

The service got worse, and so I left.

59%, just barely squeaking in.

Following the XKCD rules and keeping it in the 2000s and later makes it a lot harder. I could make an entire list of '90s movies that qualify.

But my answer is: Pitch Black.

Bonus answer, which doesn’t quite qualify because it has an exact 60% rating: Love (2011, the space one)

Dinohattan is one of sci-fi cinema’s most underappreciated settings.

“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time.”

Atleast the second point on your ‘missed’ list is generally instance related (atleast in my experience).

True, and I am aware of that. But just speaking of the user experience, it is a pain point that I’m currently experiencing that I wasn’t when using Reddit (aside from the occasional “You Broke Reddit” outage periods).

That’s not a criticism of Lemmy, I mean I lived through Friendster’s cripplingly poor performance, Twitter’s failwhale, and the bad early days of Reddit. Performance issues with new, growing social media sites is to be expected. But for the time being, I do miss being on a more stable platform.

This is attempt #2 to submit this reply. Let’s see if it works…

What I will miss from Reddit:

• relevant discussions on every minute, niche topic available
• hitting a button and having it usually work (Lemmy growing pains are tough sometimes, I had to try repeatedly to get this comment up)

What I will not miss from Reddit:

• Low quality content, including, to be blunt, images with text (and calling them “memes”)
• joke subs in general
• joke subs where the people that joined later don’t know it’s supposed to be a joke
• silly repetitious comment chains
• “we did it, Reddit!”
• subs that were supposed to be about real advice/drama but were flooded with bad creative writing

Anyone impatient with Lemmy bugs or downtime clearly wasn’t around for Reddit’s early days.

Scaling up social websites is never smooth. Expect bumps.

Part of my Reddit exodus plan was to get serious about my RSS setup.

I’ve settled on:

• FreshRSS as my feed manager (supported by Reeder app in iOS and MacOS)
• FiveFilters Full Text extractor
• rss-proxy site scraper

I may experiment with some replacements for rss-proxy, as I’ve run into a couple sites it doesn’t scrape well, but FreshRSS and FiveFilters have been smashing successes.