matt

Not sure if you're aware, but this community already exists over at https://lemmy.world/c/ukcasual.

I don't know why the name got swapped either.

Yeah, it's a glitch in the software, it will always show local highlighted, but all communities should show up. See below to see what I mean (screenshot taken from lemmy.world):

I remember having to wait a little for it to take effect as well.

Of course! I used the Steam Flatpak when I used to have Steam (I don't game using it any more), and everything worked exactly as you expected it to.

If you have an nvidia card, you will need to do some manual set up for the drivers (add the non-free repository and sudo apt install nvidia-driver), but it works without a hitch after that.

Debian has a lot of strange misconceptions about it, but it's really just like any other distribution and I'm a big fan of the stable base. I get "update fatigue" from all the other distros.

There's not really anything bizarre about it, people discover things by word of mouth, and people also like to try things out they see other people doing / playing.

It's like trying to stick it to an F2P game by just "not paying", it doesn't work because players are content and encourage other people to spend more time on them, and some of those people will end up paying money. You stick it to them by just not playing at all and reducing awareness by not even discussing it, even if it might be small in the big picture.

Debian.

Just works, things are made targetting it specifically, able to get latest software if I need it by installing flatpaks.

Can't complain really.

I have no idea why they decided on this system - there's definitely some improvements such as decoupling username and display name, and making the username case insensitive, but unique usernames and prestigious usernames is just such an awful system.

So many things had solved this issue as far back as the early 2000s, but seems everyone is insistent on using it.

I couldn't get a decent username on Discord either, so I just claimed a game name as a meme (pso2ngs) until I can think of something I'd actually want.

Been mainly using it to get through the Trails series before Trails from Reverie releases in July - currently on Trails of Cold Steel 4, but it's a hard one to get through.

Other than that, been emulating Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity and playing with friends.

They're just different softwares that communicate over ActivityPub. They're both link aggregators, so they'll be similar in functionality.

For an easy comparison using established names: One is Reddit, one is Digg, but they can communicate with each other and show each other the same content, and you can just pick which one you want to use.

There will be more differences than this, however I haven't really used kbin much to know what makes it different to Lemmy fully.

The Fediverse allows people to just choose the platforms they prefer, and then talk to everyone else on the Fediverse regardless, instead of having to create multiple accounts all over the place to talk to specific people.

Right - I think people are willing to learn things, but only if they have an incentive to do so.

Using bigger platforms such as Twitter or Reddit took some learning, but people and content were already there, this gives people the incentive to figure out how things work.

When you sign up to something like Mastodon, you have to learn how it works, and while it is not particularly complicated at all, why put the effort into figuring out Mastodon when you can just go back to Twitter and have the content and community already there for you?

It depends entirely where people live, even inside countries can differ drastically - as an example, I currently live on around £23,000 a year before tax (about €29,000) while living alone and have no issues and am able to save a decent amount. This is in the north of England, but if you were to go further south, you would need a bit more most likely.

The discourse on the internet is that you seemingly need some crazy amount of money, but the average wages of places are nowhere near the figures people give, and most people are living alright, even if it's not particularly extravagant.

This isn't to say people should be living on scraps or anything, we're all underpaid at the end of the day, but the usual "6 figures is barely getting by" you see on many (US-centric) places on the internet is verifiably false in the vast majority of places.

It's per month, not per year, so per year they're receiving €336K, which seems more than enough to me unless people are demanding 6 figure salaries which are not really necessary.

It's hard to predict - because despite the bad decisions from platforms like Facebook, Twitch, and Reddit, they are still always going to be immensely more popular than Fediverse / FOSS equivalents due to the network effect.

Despite all the bad moves from YouTube, Twitch, and Reddit, the vast majority of people aren't interested in another platform, they just want the current platform to not be rubbish, so they don't lose their current communities and contacts.

While I'd like for all the Fediverse platforms to become relatively "mainstream" that people will sign up for them, I don't think it's ever going to happen any time soon, but I'd love to be proven wrong.