I ended up just paying for a private host. Now’s the time of year to find one, with all of the Black Friday/Cyber Monday promotions taking place.

Yup. And there’s so much talk about the “old internet”, while ignoring that the old internet was small.

“You’ve tried out Piefed after 3 years using Lemmy. This is trash.” is certainly a take. Definitely encouraging of newcomers. No wonder you’re banned from lemmy.ca.

Also, this was something I grabbed from Reddit, as indicated by “r/baseball” in the title. They post this there every off season, and people like it. I like it. So, I wanted to post it here, because the two posts a month in this group drop to nothing during the off season.

Oh, I’m going to have to check this out.

It’s been a couple of years since I’ve come back to Doom. I gotta check out the recent Cacowards, I guess.

That’s been an ongoing frustration for me here. People have wanted to merge communities, even to the point of trying to organize formal community mergers, or merge duplicate posts in the client, all of which works to reproduce the culture and structure of Reddit.

But, like, c/politics on lemmy.ca and c/politics on midwest.social are going to be wildly different communities. And c/technology on programming.dev and lemmy.ml or lemmygrad.ml should probably be having very different discussions, even if they’re about the same article, and trying to force those discussions into the same space doesn’t really make sense.

But people want it, because heaven forbid they miss one of 90 boner jokes.

My GTX 1060 runs it at 12 FPS, with significant stutters and 100% memory usage. A used Switch 2 was actually the cheapest option for me.

If people are asking, it’s worth the 12 seconds it takes to post a link to a BW instance. They should just make sure it’s to a general instance, and not to a server selection page.

This is cool. I hope it gets support from instances.

But also, these projects just slap a bulletain board costume on Lemmy and Piefed. Which is great – I was reallly disappointed that LemmyBB seemed to die – but there are forum-first options out there, too. Discourse has an AP plugin, and I think that’s actively maintained. More interesting to me, though, is nodeBB.

Seriously, people should check out nodeBB. It’s super cool.

People should not expect a seamless experience across totallly different communities of people. Reddit is not a seamless experience. Rules and norms are different across subs.

The internet works better with fragmentation. It always has. Trying to treat everything as homogenous is stifling.