I actually joined Lemmy three times:

The first time, I became a Linux user and quickly dove into FOSS and all that stuff. But using proprietary and centralized Reddit felt like a hypocrisy for me so I started looking for alternatives. That’s how I found Lemmy, a year before it will be found by fleeing redditors.

Early Lemmy was very quiet. Many instances you are used to now didn’t exist (no .world, shitjustworks, blahaj zone, dbzero, etc.) The three biggest instances were lemmy ml (the more generic, tech-focused), lemmygrad (you know that one) and wolfballs (some awful alt-right bully instance, will be later known as explodingheads). Beehaw literally just appeared when I was looking into Lemmy.

Overall, it wasn’t really enough to make me want to stay. I had no confidence in my English and social anxiety wasn’t helping too. So I quickly lost interest and moved on.

Despite all my searches, I couldn’t find a fitting replacement for Reddit. Then, my friend came out as trans and I started lurking trans-related subreddits like r/traaaaaaans and r/egg_irl and thus got back to the platform. This time I was using libreddit (still maintained by the name of redlib) and Infinity for Reddit (a fork called Eternity for Lemmy adopts it for, well, Lemmy) because the FOSS world had spoiled me and I wanted actually usable UI.

And then, the APIcalypse. I was naive enough to think that people will actually resist greedy corporats and force them to change their mind or sink their platform. Of course not. Like it or not (personally, I don’t), Reddit is still alive and well, and likely very, very profitable. But there was one beautiful consequence of the enshitifaction - this place!

Unlike my first visit to Fedi, the second time I entered not as a FOSS fangirl - posts about Linux and Firefox aren’t gonna cut it. And thus, once again I found myself on a platform with not much content that I wanted to actually see. I was still very much a lurker although it was the time I tried to break through my lurking habits and to start contributing something.

Long story short, most of my time on Lemmy was spent reading and talking about Fediverse. When Meta announced its plans to connect its Xitter-alternative to Fedi, I started spending way too much time arguing with strangers about it. Until I realized just how useless all that was. I deleted my account and took a break from all social media for months.

I decided to return at some point. I was already more comfortable with posting and more aware of just how much I hate arguing with strangers. So I made a resolution: my Lemmy time should be spent on discussing stuff that actually matters to me. While it took me quite a while to figure out how to chase interesting interactions here it brought me the best online experience since my group chat broke up.

So, I hope y’all enjoy my presence as well!

Sounds like an option, I will give it a try!

Unfortunately, no one in my circles is interested in TTRPGs and I’m not comfortable with strangers.

Worldbuilding. I love imagining weird worlds and figuring out how stuff works in them. I have no idea how to share my worlds with others in a way that would be interesting to anyone, so the only person who knows about my projects is my girlfriend.

Gaming. I don’t understand the appeal of competitive games, like at all. Even when I was fighting with other players in Dark Souls 2, I was more concerned with having fun than winning. I disabled achievements in Steam and tend to seek ways to remove achievements from other games if at all possible.

Reading. I know people read like hundreds of books per year. I start less than a dozen books a year. Maybe I’ll finish one or two lol. I don’t care. As far as I’m concerned, reading Wikipedia and other articles on the internet also counts as reading. And if a book keeps my attention all the way to the end, great!

Don’t spoil Detroit for me!!! 😆

Whoops, I assumed you had completed Detroid so didn’t think about adding a spoiler warning. Sorry!

AI is a machine and a machine can have built-in backdoors and spyware, as well as be it can be compelled by its creators to act a certain way without even acknowledging it. It actually happens in Detroid at some point.

So, unless AI is absolutely transparent in how it’s built, written and trained, I wouldn’t let it become a part of my life, even if it was acting as a fully aware individual.

Which version did this happen in?

2.3.0, according to their new website, though I found out about it at a much later version.

I don’t think OP is a sir 🤔

The latest pre-libadwaita version of Gajim is 2.2.0, I don’t think there were any problems with that version.

It also locks up whenever we try dragging a picture into the chat window to send.

I remember that Gajim installed from Flatpak wouldn’t allow drag’n’drop functionality at all.

Whaat, that can happen??

Before the June update Gajim wasn’t related to GNOME at all and worked perfectly fine on my Xfce desktop. The update fully switched to GTK4 + libadwaita, and they also redesigned their website to look exactly like GNOME’s.

I suppose they changed their design direction…

Yeah that’s exactly it.

Gtk3 is considered legacy now

Cinnamon and Xfce still exist though. It’s not like gtk3 is suddenly out of use.

I’ll look into Movim, thanks!

I don’t, they are free to change their software any way they want to, and I’m free to not like the changes they’ve made.

There aren’t really any good clients for XMPP unfortunately. I’m just moving away to Matrix (ironically the one I avoided because it didn’t have good clients when I looked into IMs).

But the starting village in Outer Wilds is completely optional? You can just go straight to Hornfels, get the launch codes and leave for adventure.

I mean, if we could have as much content diversity as Reddit it would be great. But we don’t. “More of everything else” will inevitably come at a cost of the quantity of political stuff.

With that said, Lemmy has so much western politics that you won’t even notice if a quarter of it would suddenly disappear.

It doesn’t help that all of the OG Doom developers except J. Carmack left id software years before Doom 3. No wonder it’s so different from its predecessors.

And darkness. Thanks for the most useless flashlight in history!

And Doom 3 isn’t even that fun gameplay-wise…