ElectroVagrant

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[–] ElectroVagrant 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

it's 2% milk, 98% mystery fun

[–] ElectroVagrant 13 points 8 months ago

I don't know the specifics of what may have happened with Lemmy.film, so we'll have to see if someone else may know.

As to what happens to posts to "their" communities, my rough understanding is that with the host server gone, federation either doesn't occur or maybe attempts to reach the host but simply stops after some number of attempts. Upon failure I think it simply collects the posts on your home server/instance's copy of the community.

Not sure what would happen if a new instance was spun up of Lemmy.film either from a backup or in general, but I'd imagine there's some settings/adjustments that may be calibrated to prevent it getting a backlog of posts dumped on it causing it to get bogged down or crash.

As to questions specifically about the Lemmy software, you may try [email protected] or [email protected], think either one would be okay for this.

[–] ElectroVagrant 47 points 8 months ago

Pulling the background link here to save people some clicks: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

With a few quotes to highlight the frustrating situation:

That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.^1^ Best I could do: as of December 2019, OverDrive controlled digital lending for “more than 95% of public libraries in the US and Canada”.^2^)

Emphasis added.

Right away I saw that in June 2020, OverDrive was sold to global investment firm KKR. [...] The private equity firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, I quickly learned, was either the inventor of, or an early pioneer in, basically all the Shitty Business Practices: leveraged buyouts, corporate raiding, vulture capitalism. They’ve been at it since the 1970s and they’re still going strong. [...] Even in the world of investment capital, where evil is arguably banal, KKR is notoriously vile. They are the World Champions of Grabbing All The Money And Leaving Everyone Else In The Shit.

[...]

And if OverDrive goes belly-up at some point in the future, crushed by KKR’s leveraged debt, it’s going to take down access to the digital catalogs of nearly every public library in North America.

Emphasis added.

[–] ElectroVagrant 2 points 9 months ago

No reason really, and the video doesn't suggest they'd be unable to. Its title is doing that regular clickbaity style of YouTube, but the content itself is interesting if you wondered what went into making these small games, and how some grew in size later in the NES' existence as more was added to cartridges to enable more involved games.

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 9 months ago

That's so cool! Appreciate all the detail as well!

[–] ElectroVagrant 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

In strict technical terms, yeah it's okay, albeit with the shortcomings to be expected of a smaller development team. In terms of population and activity with this format, I think it may be at the top compared to alternatives as well.

There's still others and other software options though for this format that people could try, which honestly may even be technically better, but lacking population/activity means they're in an odd spot.

The first of these you'll read about on here are likely Kbin/Mbin, possibly followed by PieFed or still-in-development Sublinks. Kbin/Mbin is definitely the runner-up in terms of federated Reddit-alternatives, as it was one of the few options available at the time people were leaving Reddit.

PieFed and Sublinks have emerged more recently with different priorities and approaches compared to Lemmy, but with the same desire to offer a federated option for people to deploy.

The last you may read about around here would be of stuff like Discuit, Lobste.rs, Raddle (and any other sites built with Postmill), Tildes, and the like, which are all most like Reddit in terms of their being stand-alone sites, unconnected to any others running the same underlying server software. However each of these, I think, may have lower population than the cumulative population of the Lemmy network of sites.


All that said, cutting to your last question: ultimately it heavily depends on the instance/site you settle into.

Lemmy isn't a monolith, which is both its greatest strength and weakness compared to Reddit. You may be able to find a Lemmy instance/site that heavily blocks out politics and moderates lightly, but the irony of this is that it means it may have to be overly-policed to achieve that, and might appear less active in the process from heavy disconnection/defederation from any instances/sites that permit political posts/discussion.

Right now though, much of Lemmy is heavily political, and it's arguably because of lax moderation to keep political posts/discussions to relevant communities, which is itself probably in part because of lacking moderation tools to enable lighter touches to redirect posts/discussions.

Nevertheless, it's possibly the best option fitting the format available at the moment given the rest, but if Lemmy and federation doesn't suit you you might check out Tildes or Discuit. Although be advised: Tildes remains invite only for now.

Links to all options/alternatives mentioned:


One last point, I swear, but if you do stick around and just want to chat about tv shows, movies, and music, I'd recommend visiting:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

Honestly I think any general/casual discussion community would welcome posts about those subjects as well, which there are a number of across Lemmy sites to check out.

[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 9 months ago (5 children)

They mean it in the sense of new, hombrew NES games as I understand it, instead of new games that mimic the NES style

[–] ElectroVagrant 4 points 9 months ago

I think you'll be in for a treat when you get to it!

[–] ElectroVagrant 3 points 9 months ago

That's unfortunate, yet what a wicked legacy of aircraft to leave behind! The Dragonfly looks really cool and like it'd be a wild ride to fly!

[–] ElectroVagrant 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Whoa, chonk for sure! Do the sprinkles inside move about?

[–] ElectroVagrant 4 points 9 months ago

Right? Also here's how little I knew of it going in: I only knew the name of it and thought it might be an edgy show about some yakuza or something that was constantly going all out 😂

[–] ElectroVagrant 1 points 9 months ago

nvm of course it wouldn't work for OP/me

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