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Half-Life is also my favorite. But incompetent? He graduated from MIT!

Seriously, what the fuck is this guy on? Do I want individual forums with independent communities and separate identities in each of them? You're goddamn right I do!

Yeah, that's bullshit. Early Reddit is probably best described as "libertarian" - not to be confused with the embarrassing Republican malapropism of the same name. Much of the community was not explicitly political, but they definitely held what would be called "liberal" beliefs by conservatives. /r/atheism used to be a default sub. Political issues of the time such as gay marriage, OWS, and universal health care all enjoyed popular support among the site's community. The demographics of the site skewed young, educated, and technically inclined - /r/programming also used to be a default sub - so the whole site had a sort of "California liberal" vibe.

You can always tell a conservative who found Reddit during the /r/KotakuInAction/ and /r/the_donald era, because their memory of the site doesn't go back any further than those shit-shows.

I had a DOS version on a 3.5" floppy disk. I loved the MIDI music.

As far as I know, Syncthing's local web interface is locked down by default. You should only be able to access it from localhost unless you change the settings. That said, there is some security concerns about JS in browsers making web requests to localhost, which is why I keep a password on Syncthing even though the webui isn't remotely connectable.

Does Diablo 3 count? It got panned at launch and I do understand why. The story was predictable and dumb. Making the whole game revolve around a damn auction house made it unsatisfying. But man, the game itself played so well - I loved smashing my way through a dungeon as fast as I could wiping whole screens at a time. And they did do "loot 2.0" with the expansion, which killed the auction house and made the gear you picked up actually worthwhile sometimes.

Diablo 4 feels kinda meh to me by comparison.

I played Guild Wars starting from the beta and loved it. I was super excited for the sequel - even bought the collector's edition - but didn't end up playing it that much.

I'll never understand people who want the old init systems back. Before systemd, the common init systems on Linux more or less just ran shell scripts called "init scripts" you dropped in a directory. It was an under-engineered solution that led to people solving the same problems repeatedly with varying (usually poor) results. It was common to see things like wrappers to restart crashed daemons and every daemon needing some sort of forking or sub-process complexity so you could start as root and then drop to a lower-privileged user.

There are other modern init systems aside from systemd, and maybe there's an argument to be made that one of them is better. I don't really know. But nobody who ever had to get real intimate with the old init systems should want that back.

A new version of the Lemmy server software was released recently, version 0.18. It appears that the Jerboa app is now expecting servers to be on that new version. It looks like you're connecting to the lemmy.world server, which has not upgraded yet. They are waiting for a feature that won't be ready until 0.18.1

Unfortunately, there's not a lot you can do to fix this yourself - it's up to the people administrating lemmy.world to upgrade their server when they're ready.

IMO, Jerboa should not have locked out old versions so quickly.

I think reddit realized that having prominent subs posting photos of 14 year old girls wasn’t something they wanted to be in their public image at all

It's basically a non-starter; all "free speech absolutist" websites are. I think Moot said that 4chan didn't make any money because they were radioactive to advertisers. Voat died because they couldn't attract advertisers. The remaining right-wing social media sites are all running at a loss as far as anyone can determine.

I don’t feel like reddit became hostile to conservatives as much as conservatives who were hostile showed up

Maybe a bad choice of words on my part. I 100% agree that conservatives basically invaded the site during the leadup to the 2016 election and proceeded to harass the existing user base until the admins were forced to step in. Even then the admins did the minimum they possibly could and slow-walked everything. Conservatives got every opportunity to course-correct and basically refused.

A lot of Reddit is hostile to conservatives now and they definitely earned that ire.

I’m not sure if /r/conservative even existed before ~2015.

That sub was created Jan 25, 2008. Interestingly enough, it seems /r/christianity was created at the same time. I don't remember anyone being aware of either sub - much less caring about them - prior to /r/the_donald. Reddit was pretty fine with conservative subs before they started showing up in everybody's gaming and knitting subs calling everybody cucks and baby murderers.

Personally I feel like a lot of it was organized astroturf, not even necessarily from inside the US.

Everything about the genesis of /r/the_donald feels like organized to me. That shit came out of nowhere. If I had to guess, it's something similar to Steve Bannon's strategy to target gamers and the gamergate fiasco.

When they first started joining Reddit, I thought of them as FaceBookers fleeing their parents and grandparents

The real first wave were Digg refugees, but there's some truth to that. Millennials made heavy use of Facebook but largely abandoned the platform when their parents showed up. The only people I know who are still using Facebook are my boomer-aged parents and their friends.