Die4Ever

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[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

As a kid I liked GTA2, modded the game to make the taxi super fast and strong lol

I messed around a lot in GTA3 with cheats, causing chaos in the tank

Vice City I actually played for real and beat it, my favorite in the series, but I stopped after that. I probably would've enjoyed San Andreas because it's similar. GTA4 and 5 just seemed like a different tone and style that I was never very interested in. Also they took too long to bring to PC lol.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  1. "sort": that's the word for the options of "new", "scaled", "active" etc, right?

Yep https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

  1. @Die4Ever pointed out there's a "Show Read Posts" option in the settings. I've unticked that and will see how it goes.

I honestly don't use this feature myself lol but I hope it helps you!

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's definitely a concern. People ask these questions about Lemmy, but no one asks how the horizontal scaling of Twitter functions and then complains that your explanation is too technical.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 5 points 1 week ago

For like 99% of Reddit accounts, that's all they do anyways lol

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I created this post so we could figure out how to handle these questions/concerns, because there's a lot here

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Semifinals and final in 10 hours!

edit: just the semifinals were today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzKpEUc50A

doesn't seem like we know when the finals will be yet https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/WardiTV_Boomer_Bash#Playoffs

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I think the confusion arises when people try to optimize maximum usage of "Lemmy" instead of just hearing someone say "hey join midwest.social it's fun, I'll see you there", and then they say "ok" and signup and use it as-is, like the old forum days. Don't even need to use the word "Lemmy".

They probably weren't optimally using Reddit to its fullest potential, yet they won't even dip their toe into Lemmy until they have a perfectly optimal gameplan of maximizing their usage of Lemmy better than anyone ever has before. Just jump in! You don't have to be perfect, just click around and upvote and leave comments.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

pretty sure on Android an app can read your IMEI if they ask for the Phone Calls permission and you approve it

I don't know if the Reddit app does this, I never used their official app

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

In your settings on the website there's a checkbox for "Show read posts", uncheck that. Some apps have the same feature or similar. Some apps also have an option to mark as read when you scroll past a post without opening it.

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

the playoffs start in less than an hour! (I'm trying to screenshot this bracket without looking because I haven't finished watching Group D yet lol)

[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

like I said, hashtags are fun, but the fact that even if you follow the hashtag it only shows posts that were already federated into your instance confuses people

communities/groups will federate the posts for you if you follow, but following a hashtag does not give any federation

Even if you could follow hashtags on Lemmy, you would also need to be able to follow users for anything to show up (so that's 2 big new features required). And since it requires following users, that would also mean a culture shift would be required, you'd need to convince your instance-mates to use their Lemmy accounts to follow people, but people are mostly here to follow communities not people.

I'm not against the features being added, I just don't think they're going to be as impactful to the Lemmy platform as expected.

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