I’ve not done this for a very long time, but I used to eat them like that aswell

The instance works really well :)

• Cars, even if I use public transports and my bike as much as possible, I still have to use it sometimes
• Supermarkets, I try to buy things elsewhere but it’s not always possible…

I think that I fully understand how you feel. It’s pretty much why I stopped playing online games. I want to be able to not think about being good or absolutly winning every single game. Most of the time, I would rather prefer trying out “dumb” stuff in the game or simply having random conversations while having fun.

I really miss these days where games were more than just the game itself.

I also feel that newer games only focus on the competitive aspect.

Poorly advertised is an understatement, I never heard about this within Reddit xD I always thought that it was a third-party thing.

It is indeed similar to the “Local” feed from Lemmy then. However, it doesn’t have the “I’m part of a common family” feeling that I see in an instance like jlai.lu where we know that all users from the instance see the same content.

But TIL, thank you :)

I agree, I feel like most of the “feed” issues are simply because users are in big instances where the “Local” feed indeed becomes meaningless.

Something that would however be cool would be a way to view the Local feed from another instance, without having to actually go to the other instance.

To me, the Local feed is one of the biggest strengths of Lemmy. It allows having in the same platform a community/instance based feed (for example, Local in jlai.lu allows you to find most of the French activity in Lemmy), and at the same time, I can use “Subscribed” and/or “All” feeds to get a broader view of the Fediverse.

Without the “Local” view, Lemmy would just feel like another Reddit clone to me, where French communities would just be flooded by English-speaking communities. On Reddit, the French community actually had to create a subreddit dedicated to listing all French subreddits, just because the discoverability of non-English-speaking subreddits is just awful by default on Reddit.

And at the same time, I don’t see the need for “curation algorithms”. The “Subscribed” feed already fills this use case for me.

You can force a video to appear in Lemmy by copying the original peertube URL of the video into lemmy’s search. It will take 2-3 seconds to import it and show up in the search results.

jlai.lu because it allows to simply use the “Local” feed to browse most French related communities, while still being able to browse the rest of the Threadiverse using the “Subscribed” or “All” feeds.

To me, that’s a huge improvement to Reddit, where it allows language-based and topic-based communities to have dedicated places which are easier to explore.

Pixelfed can support videos, but it has some restrictions which doesn’t make it very accessible.

It is currently in development: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

By the way, “old” is simply based on mlmym.org, which you can use with other instances than lemmy.world, if wanted.

Well, my main issue with Twitter is that it is used for official communications, and sometimes is the only medium that is used. To me, official communications should go through platforms that aren’t owned by a private company. This is where Mastodon/Firefish would be great alternatives, since governments or institutions could set up their own servers, while still being part of a wider network.

!fedora@kbin.social exists !

France already does DNS blocking. It honestly has near to no impact, since targeted websites (usually digital piracy related stuff) just change the domain.

Yes, I feel like at least 75% of games that are Open Word would be better if they weren’t.

It would still be better to have multiple “large” servers, instead of only one or two, which is currently the case. I really don’t think that it is a good thing to have a big difference between the biggest and the next biggest servers, as it effectively centralizes the content around the biggest instance.

I however agree that it doesn’t make sense to have tons of tiny instances.