There’s no cut off. Some people are just judgy (and often hypocritical).

I’m the same age as you and I’ve been gaming my whole life. My father had all the Ataris, (2600, 400, 800, XT, etc…). He and I built my first 386 together. My uncles had the Intellivision. Cousins with the ColecoVision. My father’s almost 70 and he’s still an avid Destiny 2 player.

I will admit tho, it’s harder to find women, our age, who are either into or at least open to gaming as an adult hobby. I’m not saying they don’t exist but having been divorced and remarried I can say there’s a gender gap there. I was lucky enough to find someone open minded. She never complained about my weekly game nights to keep in touch with my friends and she’s even opened up over the last few years and has become a bit of a gamer herself.

So… there is no cut off. It’s not immature or childish, and it’s certainly more of an art form than 3/4 of the garbage those same people will spend their free time on (reality tv, tiktock, endlessly scrolling the void of facebook).

I’d kill for a game with the scope of Skyrim where the NPCs truly felt like they were living their own lives.

If everyone uses cloudflare and cloudflare goes down…

Yeah the sad part is that, really, the best we can hope for is a post mortem. Rescue is almost impossible in this situation.

I have a home hub (got it on sale a while back) and I agree that it feels like it should be a small detachable tablet. This looks like the natural next evolution.

I’ve had a few android tablets. They’ve all been lackluster and unimpressive. This one, at least seems like it would serve a general purpose (home hub) with the added benefit of being able to detach it and use it as a tablet when needed.

Agreed. Many on this list, to me, seem too busy or an outright eyesore (btop). But bat does appear truly useful. I’ll be giving that one a try.

Feedly has fairly decent discovery features.

I used BaconReader for a long time and then switched to Relay several years ago. I’m going to miss it dearly.

I’ve been using nearlyfreespeech.net for (looks) 14 years now. Their business aligns with my ideals and I’ve always been happy with their service.

Same here. If they’d have just framed it differently and put the onus of paying for api access on the users (at a modest fee), almost none of the backlash would have happened.

Then I’d still be oblivious.

I prefer the world the way it was before all the consolidation. I like the ideals of the fediverse and want it to succeed.

Change is hard and can be confusing. If the community remains open and helpful hopefully a real push can be made towards taking sites like Reddit down a few pegs.

Thanks. I guess I was being impatient. It’s not the most intuitive interface to have a search come up empty with no indication that I should wait or come back later.

This one gives me a 404 and doesn’t come up in search.

The server sidebar has clickable links to external communities, so there’s gotta be a way.

How hard if it to offer a nominally feed as free experience?

I just think we should kind of chill on trying to 1-for-1 replicate Reddit

I don’t think I want (or was asked for) a 1-to-1 replica of Reddit. Like I said, I get the pros of open source and federation. I’m just pointing out an immediately apparent pain point that I’d like to see be addressed at some point.

I don’t want to agree with you but I do. It’s Paradox so I’m guardedly hopeful.

There’s pros and cons to both centralization and decentralization. I like the idea and the goal of decentralization and federation but you run into issues like this, that are counter-intuitive and will be a road block to broader acceptance. Especially with smaller communities.

I think having the option to aggregate those communities into one view could bridge that gap. Have it be optional. Heck, even allow users/servers to block specific communities if they want.

I like the idea of Lemmy but I don’t like the idea of having to subscribe to 7,10,15 different versions of a topic of interest spread across 25 different servers. Let me sub to “Technology” and have a toggle to display “all Technology communities across federated servers”.

I know it’s all about “engagement” but I feel like this is still driving traffic to the site. Which is kinda the opposite of leaving it.

Yeah. I clicked the link and I was presented with a “you must login or signup” to interact with it because it’s on a different server.