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Cake day: August 8th, 2024

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  • I tried to join Lemmy during the API debacle, but then it asked me to choose a server. It didn’t explain what that meant or how it would affect me. I could read a long, confusing explanation of it elsewhere, but that illuminated nothing. So I gave up.

    Eventually I tried again and just chose lemmy.world, since it was the largest. After that it was smooth sailing, and I like Lemmy a lot more than reddit. It turns out it didn’t even really matter which server I chose. (Although now I see some comments from people saying there’s something wrong with lemmy.world.)

    You just need to hold the new user’s hand a little. Anyone who has ever designed a UI for an office environment would know immediately that the server question is going to be an impenetrable wall for many users.




  • Maybe it’s not obscure enough, but for me, Starflight on the Sega Genesis remains the greatest space exploration game ever made.

    It was unforgiving the way games were back then, which added to the feeling that you’re just out there in unexplored space.

    More than 800 different planets, most of them empty (except for resources), but that just makes it so exciting when you find an artifact hidden in ancient ruins.

    And an incredible story on top of that. A huge mystery unfolds organically as solar flares start destroying planets across the galaxy and your explorable space slowly shrinks.

    The back of the manual was a journal written by another starship captain who sent it to you from the future. It serves as a guide and a warning, giving some valuable locations and clues, in case you’re having trouble finding the path.

    Oh, and the soundtrack! I can still bring it to mind thirty years later. Haunting.