This post makes the Beehaw admins look really bad, to be honest. Personally, I had not even really noticed any big differences, so if you hadn’t told me I wouldn’t even know about them. The small differences that I did notice seem like improvements to me.

However, this post seems to be needlessly criticizing the Lemmy devs without any actual constructive feedback. The post is nothing more than “We would like to make you aware that the experience got worse and you SHOULD BLAME the devs!!” to me. It doesn’t help anybody. It just makes you look very unprofessional, entitled and will damage your relation with the Lemmy devs. If you can’t code and improve Lemmy yourself that way, that’s totally fine. Don’t like an update? That fine too! But if you want to be actually helpful and have your voice heard, go to Lemmy’s Github page and give the devs constructive feedback. Report bugs when you run into issues or do a feature request for changes you’d like to see. Enter discussions about other bugs/requests. There are so many things you could do without the need to be a programmer.

But don’t post a vague complaint to your community, pointing fingers and hoping to get more people angry to pressure the devs into what you want. I came to Beehaw because it promised to be a safespace. A positive place. The fact that an admin posted this complaint here doesn’t reflect that idea at all to me.

I really hope you guys can see why this behaviour is not desirable and a one-time thing. Otherwise, I can’t keep supporting Beehaw and would have to leave the instance for another, which would be a shame.

On Android, I use AntennaPod. Does everything I want from a podcast app and more.

I’m currently keeping a close eye on both Thunder and Liftoff.

Both have been really nice and interesting so far :) I would recommend trying both out and see of one fits your needs.

This looks amazing! I would love to see these implemented/added officially into Beehaw!

That’s how I’ve been starting to see this all as well. The seperate, smaller instances remind me a lot of 00’s phpbb forum, but it’s with the UX of Reddit. Lastly the intercompatibility feels comparable to e-mail: It doesn’t matter that I use gmail and you use Outlook, we can still send eachother an e-mail and both servers will talk to eachother without any issue. It’s the some of the best of many worlds and I’m feeling Lemmy and Kbin are here to stay for me.

My last few adventures have been: J-RPG > Farm sim > City Builder.

It’s been really fun to explore genres and games that I had not really touched before, both new and old games. It made gaming a lot more fun again

FreeTube is what you’re looking for. LibreTube, Newpipe and FreeTube can import/export each-others subscriptions too

I used Newpipe for a while on Android, but recently I discovered LibreTube, which is now my favorite Youtube client on Android. It looks a bit more modern and it actually shows you child comments, instead of just the parent comments. I still use Newpipe as a backup, though.

On desktop, I either use FreeTube, MPV (Pairs great together with Qutebrowser or ytfzf) or simply Firefox with extensions.

Also, I only just noticed that Lemmy actually loads in newly posted comments live in the thread, without the need to reload the page. Very nice!

I agree. I’m still hoping some subreddits will move over to Lemmy, but I’m really enjoying Lemmy anyhow. The Lemmy communities seem generally really positive so far and there is enough content for me to enjoy. It even helps with reducing my time lost on the internet while still providing me with the community and information-influx that I enjoy. Quality over quantity. I also really love the idea of the technical parts: federated, open source and self-hostable.

Same for me, most of my favorite games nowadays are indies. Like Valheim, Stardew Valley and more

Those games might be worth checking out, it’s a very different experience than online multiplayer shooters. But maybe shooters just aren’t your thing at all, which is okay as well :) If you need more game-recommendations, both shooters and non-shooters, I’m happy to scroll though my Steam list and gather some more for you!

I think Guacamelee hasn’t been mentioned yet.

There are also a lot of amazing Lego games that are fun for all ages. I really enjoyed Lego Lord of the Rings myself

What about games like Half Life or Metro? I don’t like most mutiplayer shooters either, but storydriven singleplayer games can be great imo

Free and Open Source software. I don’t mean anything specific, but if you use/need software it doesn’t hurt to search if there are any FOSS solutions available that suit your needs. If it does, you might save a couple of bucks. If it doesn’t you can still use your proprietary solution anyway.

Complete dealbreaker for me. You’ll never actually own games with such models, as you are completely dependand on the publisher. Once they pull the plug, you can’t play the game you paid for. Server probleem? Sorry, you can’t play right now. Traveling? Sorry, can’t play.

It is also generally bad for modding and the overall user experience. These kind of games often have DRM that don’t allow for modding

• Star Ocean First Departure (PPSSPP)
• Star Ocean Second Evolution (PPSSPP, Maybe even Yuzu?)
• Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth
• Stardew Valley
• Wargroove
• FTL: Faster Than Light
• Spiritfarer Farewell Edition

Good to hear! I actually still haven’t really played it, although I set it up on my system. I got the urge to play more platforms, including Jak, after I finally beat one of my favorite childhood games, Rayman 2 The Great Escape, a few months ago.

You might want to keep an eye on OpenGoal. It’s a decompilation of the original engine. This allows you to run Jak 1 natively, and they’re working on porting Jak 2 as well. This can also result in higher performance, better graphics and more :)

Thank you for sharing LibreTube! It’s exactly what I was looking for!

I was starting to like NewPipe more since Revanced borked on my phone. However, it doesn’t load child comments and the UI could use an update. LibreTube seems to improve on those exact issues!

Same for me and I have to say, I’m really liking it here so far! The community is of course smaller, but it’s still large enough to be engaging and the users are nice so far.