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I'd say it's a mixed bag, as with Reddit. Since it's composed largely of people who've left Reddit, it's a technical crowd with strong opinions about technology. So the Linux communities there are very strong, and there's a strong SF presence. Lemmy has roots in counterculture, so before the migration, it was mostly people with more fringe viewpoints (like lemmy.ml is explicitly marxist-leninist) and there's a strong tankie contingent still. I personally am a big fan. I like that there are multiple competing servers in the ActivityPub federation, I like that it interoperates with Mastodon and the rest of the AP ecosystem, and I like that it's a little more chaotic. If you like drama, there's plenty to keep you occupied. Nothing stopping you from spinning up your own server and hosting communities. There's sharp edges, though. It's very much kinda beta "wild west".

I picked up a respirator in my (~550d old) Interloper game, but it's fully ruined and unusable.

A little disappointing to have no Halloween event this year. You'd think they could re-use their previous events and just s/2018/2023/g or something. I guess they'd have to do a bugfix and testing pass.

There is quite an active Discord server. Here is an invite link: https://discord.gg/22FHmNTUCH I'll add it to the Lemmy sidebar while I'm at it.

Anyway, as Xanna notes, I'm targeting people who would be on Reddit, and saying they should maybe consider moving. If/when Reddit finally seppukus through monetization and chasing investors, I hope Lemmy will pick up the slack.

That's a valid point, and I do pop in here from time to time (created an account yonks ago, I think, but I'm not sure what happened to it). Splitting a community is a major step and should be avoided. I think, personally, that it's inconvenient to visit a specific forum for discussion like this. It's easier to go to Steam, Reddit, and Lemmy because it's part of a more streamlined workflow. To visit TLD forums, I have to *specifically* go here. A forum aggregator is just simpler. What would actually be really awesome is if the existing TLD forum federated with Lemmy. There's not much reason a forum like this couldn't publish *as a sublemmy* which would allow people to subscribe to topics, comment, etc, without having to leave their home instances. For instance, Wordpress has ActivityPub support, it can publish straight to your Mastodon feed. It's pretty great.

Hi! I wanted to point out that there's a Long Dark community on Lemmy, as an alternative to the Reddit forum that already exists, which I moderate (am willing to take on new moderators as it scales up). Over 50 subscribers so far! As Reddit works toward its public IPO, it has become increasingly enshittified, locking out features from users and trying to lock people in more and more. Lemmy is a federated system based on ActivityPub (meaning that anyone can start a server) that aims to replace it, or at least act as a backup for when Reddit finally goes the way of MySpace, LiveJournal, AOL, and all those that came before. Cheers!

What with Reddit monetizing its API, killing off third party apps and whatnot, I've been disgusted enough with it to move on. A Canadian lemmy server seems appropriate! See you on the Fediverse! https://lemmy.ca/c/thelongdark