Action Bastard

You should consider setting up a small donation to the site, if you can afford it. If you throw $5 a month at them, you’re not only covering your own hosting fees, but covering for some of the folks who can’t afford to as well. And maybe Ruud gets to buy some beans.

Lmao

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

I remember one of my friends had TWO phone lines, so they can use the phone AND the dial-up at the same time.

I was so insanely fucking jealous. I hated that kid so much, because he could be online all night and he would FUCKING RAID MY KINGDOM IN UTOPIA WHILE TALKING TO ME ON THE PHONE! FUCK YOU ADAM!

Not quite kid.

If you want the real experience, you need to become a worker bee. When you find a link the leads out, don’t just stop at whatever it links to. Hit their home page, look around. Read some stuff. And don’t come back until you have something to bring back to a community somewhere else here.

That’s the real 90s experience. Consuming entire swathes of a website at a time and then going and telling people about it and talking about it.

Do you think we need a community? Well open it. You can’t mod? So what, who cares, you can always give it up later. Open up the community anyways and start posting cool shit for other people to see and encourage them to bring cool stuff to show you too!

If you start doing that, then you’ve got a taste for the 90s experience. Also, listen to ska while you’re doing it.

That sounds like coward talk.

It’s easy.

You don’t pay for your games in cash. You pay for your games by being an attack node in a hire4pay DDOS botswarm.

The wonders of living in the future.

Agreed. Federation is really, really nice for people who can grasp the concept quickly and bend the systems to their will, but its feeling like we may need some sort of intermediary step that allows power users to also help with outside discovery a bit.

Everyone seems to be getting the grasp of local communities easily enough, but being able to participate/pull down content from other sites and discovering them seems to be a big pain point. Lemmy has a better discoverability than most, but whichever sites can figure out how to do good UX for discoverability is gonna get a big leg up.

It might be, but a number of Reddit communities did that via CSS as well and forums before that didn’t even have voting systems at all.

Time will tell. Part of the excitement of all this is going to be watching how everything develops

I’d say it’s a problem that will solve itself. Beehaw’s gaming communities seem to be doing better than Lemmy’s, and I’d highly encourage giving them a look. Part of the greatness of the federation system is that we don’t have to host EVERYTHING locally (and it’s probably not desirable to).

After all, if Lemmy does some stuff really well, and Beehaw does some stuff really well, both of us can thrive together without both sides having to eat hosting costs for double hosting all the content.

I’m not overly worried about fragmentation. I think more likely you’re going to see instances own various particular “communities”. So maybe Beehaw is gonna end up the primary instance more people interact with a the Gaming Community on, but maybe Lemmy has more/better meme shitposting groups or something.

Plenty of users still flooding in and we’re not quite sure how people are going to shape things.