Yeah, the curse of success. Everyone seems to be hoping for the swift death of Reddit but I dunno. It getting shittier but still existing might be the best outcome.

Like you said, with so many people online now keeping communities healthy is this precarious balancing act of keeping it just hard enough to find so that it doesn't get flooded yet still discoverable enough for some new members to find it.

This seems like a great place to mention that there is a message board front-end for Lemmy that can make it look like an old phpBB forum:

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

https://fedibb.ml/

Hello! This is the one community that I was a bit worried about finding an equivalent of outside of reddit. Hopefully more of us migrate over.

This is similar to my situation. It's out of laziness at this point because my two installs just keep working.

Related, having no trackers show up in TrackerControl for it is also very satisfying.

It's funny how obvious this point is and yet it seems to be getting kind of quietly ignored.

I can't imagine walking around in public with something like this Apple headset on, let alone with the insane price tag... which means that people are definitely going to do it.

Yeah, it's an extremely atmospheric game and the music is such a pivotal part of that. The way it all comes together is amazing.

If anything the tankie mud slinging has had the opposite effect on me. The Lemmy devs seem pretty damn gracious and accepting of people that probably have more moderate political beliefs than themselves.

Before "good" search engines existed there was a sense of exploration hopping from weird site to weird site. Because there were no rules people would really put a piece of themselves into their websites. They would just be little virtual islands dedicated to one subject or another that the author found interesting.

Yeah, it's extremely refreshing to find online spaces that are non-extractive again where one can exist without entities trying to sell you something. You start to realize the awful way that most tech treats its users. We've been getting boiled alive, slowly.