Just wanted to drop in and say that I love the unique design! It’s a little unhinged maybe but we absolutely need more fun apps like this for the fediverse. Will be trying it out. Thanks for working on it!

+1 for Lemmy.zip! Great folks here and an admin who cares a lot for the community.

Whoa that’s a nice piece of trivia. Did some googling and it definitely has roots in MUDs, but Andrew obviously had higher ambitions visually. That’s cool.

That’s awesome! I’ve noticed it on lists of top voted MUDs for a long time, but never quite got into that particularly flavor.

MUDs. Text based (generally RPG) games with incredibly immersive story telling, near infinite levels of character customization, and many even feature ways for players to build on the world itself.

I’m surprised it’s not more popular amongst D&D enthusiasts.

In its hey day, people spent thousands of dollars just to boost their characters on massive for-profit MUDs like those created by Iron Realms. But smaller MUDs like Ancient Anguish were just as quality.

Sadly they’re going extinct. Only a few MUDs are still actively maintained.

This is the original post that went viral. People started posting beans memes to prove that it’s true for themselves.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/715364

Makes sense. Could also give the mastodon community a little longer to mature.

I don’t disagree. You’re probably unlikely to find the same people on Mastodon that you followed on Twitter or elsewhere. Despite the growth it’s still a drop in the bucket of global social media users.

If it means anything, I started out with Mastodon hoping to follow popular figures and very quickly stopped caring for that. It was a lot more fun and interesting to talk to normal people with normal lives. But maybe that’s just me.

Who’re you hoping to follow? I might be able to recommend a few folks.

Curating your follows does take a minute in the beginning. This is a good starting point: https://discover.fedified.com/

Now he’s going to pay the bots! 🤣

Views basically. The number of times your tweet gets shown in someone’s feed.

Tweet impressions. Still pretty high though.

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It would need to be on a credit system. $0.01 is going to get eaten up in processing. It would be extra funny to buy 100 fucks for a dollar though.

This… is actually a pretty fucking good idea.

I’ve been coming to terms with the politics behind the Lemmy devs myself and I have to say I agree with the sentiment here.

It’s going to be a long road ahead if we cancel everyone with an opposing viewpoint.

Ultimately Lemmy remains free and open source. If new, more incriminating allegations show up about the devs, I hope that kbin would’ve made more progress by then. In the mean time, Lemmy works.