I would guess a “serious gamer” is one who wants to play all the latest AAA multiplayer games. Just not possible for Linux to work for 100% on Day 1 with the ridiculous kernel-level anti-cheats.

For me, even though I play mainly on Linux, the issue is with random niche mods or hardware; Tobi eye-tracking, headtracking, VR.

i understand, and as a Linux fanatic of 8 years now, let’s not be too judgemental of the ex-Linux crowd 😄

The only reason I had to replace my OP3 was because the buttons and screen broke down after 6 years. Battery was max 1 day but it worked for me.

True true, I remember my first Soros cheque. From next month we’ll get a bonus if we keep using Lemmy. But at least 500 comments per month. That’s hard :(

The first one is available in the latest update AFAIK

It’s not much, but it’s honest work

Depends on who you are trying to hide from and what exactly you are trying to hide

• your crazy ex
• your crazy ex who is good with computers
• your employer
• your ISP
• the state police
• federal police
• nation states

For each scenario, there are different minimum security levels you need to maintain.

If you don’t want to let your ISP know you are visiting Lemmy and if you don’t want the lemmy admin know where you are from, a VPN is great.

However, if you are participating in an anarchist instance planning to 💣a place, a VPN is not enough since the feds can force a VPN company to let them know who exactly is using a certain IP at a certain time.

Rule of thumb; don’t do shit on public forums.

Is this only for lemm.ee users or also for people in other instances as well?

Found the stackoverflow mod

What exactly was the karma problem? I never saw it being a huge issue

I think we need to give it some time. I was not there when Digg went bad but I’m assuming that in the early days of Reddit, there was a lot of discussion about Digg. Once Reddit reached a critical mass, posts about Digg died down.

2022-'23 really has been the year of enshitification

But I think it all started with Tumblr

1. Startup releases nice product
2. Product is cheap or free
3. Startup gains huge customer base while burning through money
4. Investors are interested
5. When initial money runs out, startup either asks for VC money or goes public
6. Now investors want more growth
7. Product goes through enshitification to extract more money out of customers
8. Product loses customers as it loses its original charm

A tale as old as time

You are talking about horizontal scaling. It’s something which is non-trivial and would need the core of the app to be written in a very different way. Think of the challenges

• Your sub-instance and your friend’s sub-instance which serves a common community can be geographically far apart
• They need to be synced
• Internal function calls which were once local now need to travel across the network
• Depending upon the heterogeneity of the hardware, there can be a large jitter (bad for UX)

The admin of my instance lemm.ee has tried to make horizontal scaling by decoupling some lemmy functions but pure horizontal scaling is really hard (glusterfs/spark).