I think the reality is that no one on Reddit gives a shit about Lemmy

I wouldn’t be so sure:

This is less about the instance as a whole. The !worldnews@lemmy.ml mods are notoriously terrible. It’s best to just avoid the community altogether.

The Linux version of the game is sometimes treated like an unloved stepchild though. I actually played the game through Wine for years because the Windows build had about twice the FPS on my Linux system.

There’s also a bug when reflections are enabled that makes the game unplayable and it hasn’t been fixed for about a year. It took them something like two years to fix another one where the mouse randomly left the window on a dual monitor setup and that one basically made me stop playing altogether. That said, I appreciate them supporting Linux in any case.

This totally reads like a E-Mail you’d find on a random PC in Deus Ex.

The difference is that Linux generally adopts new technology because it enhances the user experience in some way, and not because it maximizes ad revenue and telemetry.

The final nail will be when they eventually kill old.reddit.

No personally identifiable information or private account information is transmitted between instances. The only thing that is synced is the content of your posts, reports and up- and downvotes. And all of that serves a purpose and is shared willingly.

Have you tried downgrading your drivers to the previous version?

No. The servers that host your account comply with GDPR. If you post something on reddit and, for example, archive.org scrapes the post, reddit is not responsible for that. Adding to that, there is no personal information transmitted between Lemmy servers, only the name of your account and the content of the post.

If the URL actually shows the address of the federated instance, yes - you’ll see the content. In that case you will not be signed in though.

If you visit the federated instance through your home instance, the content will not be visible and you’ll be signed in.

You will not see any content from a defederated instance, even if they were posted to another federated instance.

I think the closest you’ll get to an “open” platform right now is the community-maintained https://www.themoviedb.org/. Their API is also free for non-commercial use.

I generally agree, but I felt like Bluesky was on a whole different level.

I’ve got an account on Bluesky and I’m not sure if I agree. Like 90% of the posts I’ve seen on there are about Bluesky itself, there wasn’t really anything beyond that.

Of course Lemmy doesn’t yet offer the same variety of content that reddit does but there are still very active discussions on the frontpage right now. Just on page one of my instance there is one post with 300+ comments and 5 more with 100+. Calling it a “ghost town” is just such an exaggeration that I felt the need to call it out.

I tried using Lemmy, but it’s unusable. Every thread has <5 comments. It’s a ghost town.

I’ve seen this type of comment multiple times on reddit and I still don’t understand this sentiment. It just shows that the OP has not once sorted by active and “nobody is using it so I’m not using it” is a pretty weak argument if you claim to “really like the idea”.

The code is compiling, alhamdulillah

There is a bot on feddit.nl that lists the daily growth of communities across instances:

https://feddit.nl/post/634562

https://feddit.nl/c/trendingcommunities

Reddit seems like the type of company where nobody dares to tell the CEO about any negative developments.