For those that may only vote and otherwise lurk, there’s a decent amount.

The inability to create multi-communities/reddits (or feeds as Piefed calls them), the absence of post-folding/deduplication for when someone posts the same article to multiple communities (sometimes similar, sometimes distinct), the absence of keyword filtering to automatically filter out stuff from local/all feeds one’s uninterested in, and these are just a few from the top of my head for those that mostly lurk.

[email protected] maybe?

If you can’t resist then I guess a compromise might to be buying used where possible, getting cross-platform titles on other platforms.

Personally a couple of my various regrets have been getting Nintendo stuff new in recent years. My lightly used New 3DS d-pad bugged out, I replaced the d-pad for it and barely used it only for it to partly break again.

I got a Switch, new, before they went ballistic with lawsuits and the screen had a dead pixel out of the box. Probably a matter of time before it develops stick drift. The battery also gives the whole device a limited time to work, unless it can still work via the dock without a battery (or with and without charging capacity), but I’m doubtful of that…

The Switch 2 being a similar design carries on that same battery problem as far as I’m aware.

Whenever you like, honestly. It’s mostly a nice acknowledgment to the poster that you appreciated their post. Unlike commercial social media it’s not sending out anything to your followers that you interacted with it (at least last I checked).

I think many people boost more than favorite because it functions a little similarly in regards to acknowledgment, with the bonus that it helps share the post to others which is even more relevant in federated networks than on centralized platforms.

In other words, vibe coders are today’s technologically accelerated script kiddie.

That’s arguably worse as the produced scripts may largely work and come with even less demand for understanding than a script kid’s cobbling together of code may have demanded.

OpenRSS is a cool site that aims to produce RSS feeds for sites without them at no cost (some conditions apply, e.g. no account-walled/paywalled sites may be requested).

There’s also the Feedbro add-on for Firefox (and other browsers) that can be used to check if a website has a RSS feed buried somewhere to add to your reader.

If you’d like to keep up with some non-commercial music, you could check out the Editor’s Picks from ccMixter. Here’s the direct feed link.

Was thinking the same and you can.

Minimal fucking around needed too, just pkg install imagemagick then navigate filesystem to images ya want to adjust and magick however desired to reduce the file size.

My problem with them is this and YouTube’s aggressive pushing of them in general and in the wrong places, like any device with a horizontal display (like when using a PC/laptop).

In my opinion vertical videos are better viewed on a vertical display (like a phone) and nowhere else, because everywhere else they look worse. Now that I’m thinking more of this though…I should see if any shmup people are showing off via shorts, 'cause that’d be a good fit.

Also if it’s not that, it may be related to account language settings. Same deal, go into settings under profile/account and check that you have undetermined selected along with any other languages you want to be able to see.

Edit:
Almost forgot, to select multiple languages you’ll have to hold Ctrl and click each one in the Web UI (I think probably Photon as well).

No, sorry. To put it in your terms Lemmy would be a “platform” like how you describe Mastodon/Pixelfed.

The reason I suggested mentioning feddit.org instead is because it’s what you’re using and where someone else could sign up and join easily.

Mentioning Lemmy (or Mastodon/Pixelfed) doesn’t tell people any site to sign up on, just what tech they’re built with.

Focus on making posts you want to discuss or would want to see in communities that interest you and you want to see active.

While I’d argue it’s better to shake off the platform thinking, the simple way to put it would be that you simply refer to the site you’re using, feddit.org, when mentioning it to others. The umbrella term for these connected sites is either fediverse or the open social web, whichever you prefer. Each site like this connects with one another, but given formatting differences (Pixelfed is more image-focused, Mastodon is microblogging), posts shared between them try to display in ways fitting one another’s format which can sometimes look rough.

You may see content from these other sites when browsing the main feed/front page set to All, which displays content from elsewhere that others on your site (feddit.org) have subscribed to.

May want to cross-post this to [email protected].

There’s also this:
https://frontpage.fyi/

Not sure which of the two has been around longer, but looks like frontpage is also pretty slow going.

Unfortunately this has Denuvo to restrict your use of your purchase. Was hoping after their first title getting criticized for this they may have changed course on that, but appears not.

Would recommend waiting till that’s removed, maybe in a GOG release.

Technically it may be, in terms of library.

However there are a few alternatives to look into that, while not matching the scale of their library, still have enough to consider.

For older anime there’s Retrocrush, which offers a fair amount of shows to watch for free (but with ads), no account required. Some are only accessible with an account and via subscription, however.

Interestingly though, some of those shows are available on other services no subscription required, like Tubi or Pluto.

Speaking of, it turns out Crunchyroll apparently cut a deal with Pluto, so there’s a Crunchyroll channel on there where you can catch some of their anime freely (again, with ads though). Besides that there’s also a separate anime channel and a few dedicated marathon channels to more popular series like Naruto, One Piece, Sailor Moon, etc.

There’s also lower amounts still to be found on the other general streaming services like Netflix or Hulu, but it obviously doesn’t fully compare.

Also while not newer and their library is way smaller, for some anime movies you might see if your local libraries offer digital services like Hoopla or Kanopy. With those you may be able to check out some great anime movies.

Try to learn more, focus on creative/constructive approaches or outlets (not necessarily artistic in nature, but may be).

Sometimes I’ll read into history for something or other and find myself mildly amused and sort of relieved to see how familiar the accounts are. Of course it would be better if they weren’t so familiar, but it goes to show things aren’t freshly awful. It’s a lot of the same old garbage we’ve yet to effectively deal with, same as ever, but we have been dealing with it.

In other words, I try to take steps to regain perspective to recognize there’s as much, if not at times more, good to experience than bad, and even if I struggle to find much good, I can try to make my own sort of good to keep myself going.

Your ignorance means it was shiny and new to you, and that’s okay!

All good! There were some initial issues with Kbin/Lemmy federation, at first I think it was that it wasn’t enabled just yet and later it was related to their configuration of Cloudflare or some CDN, I think, to help in handling the traffic, but it was eventually resolved.

Lemmy people can’t interact with kbin (yet).

? You can search for Kbin magazines & subscribe to them via Lemmy, as well as post to them/reply to posts that are federated and the like. There have been some issues/delays in federation between the two, but not too different from those between Lemmy instances, unless something has recently changed with Kbin again in this regard.

It’s a lemmystery.

Really though, from what I’ve seen in other discussions surrounding it, it’s a genuine mystery as at the time I’m writing this (and as far as I’m aware), there’s been no further information on what happened with it, why it’s offline, etc. Lots of speculation, but no direct info to go off of.