I meant something owned/maintained by Valve, it’s a name people can trust and would catch a lot of angry Win10 users switching

personally I don’t need any specific distro, but it would be a big boost for Valve

I’m probably gonna go full Linux, I already run it on my laptop and my closet computer lol

I wonder if Steam OS will be ready for desktops before this

Some day LW will enable parallel sending lol, hopefully soon. I’m really curious how much it will help.

I never know what to do with these lol

it actually has quite a few upvotes too

What’s missing from Lemmy that would make it unattractive to the average user?

I don’t think it’s always easy to pinpoint UX issues and user friction. Sometimes these things just don’t stick with mainstream users. I say it’s worth a try to see which platform the average Reddit user will prefer.

But if you’re gonna use from a phone, Lemmy’s selection of mobile apps is unbeatable.

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

The rate of growth does matter yea. If an instance gets worried, they can lock signups. Slow growth means the software has time to improve as they notice issues.

Lemmy had many issues scaling before, except Lemmy had huge surges with the Reddit API blackouts.

If people start recommending PieFed now, it’s on their own terms instead of a massive wave. They can backoff if they get too many users.

I think it’s unlikely that they would attract such a large number of users with 1 post on r/RedditAlternatives or something. Lemmy gets spammed everywhere and we usually don’t even gain 1000 users a day overall across all instances.

There’s already been some comments about PieFed and they didn’t result in huge surges.

We have data on what it costs to run a sizeable instance of Lemmy and it’s not a lot. How does Piefed compare? Anyone starting an instance who envisions it growing large has to contend with this question.

I don’t think this is a major concern yet. The largest PieFed instance has 308 active users, 2nd place has 34. They’ve got room to grow.

https://piefed.fediverse.observer/list

People can start posting about PieFed on Reddit and see how the Reddit users react.

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I missed it live and I was curious, here’s the trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEVBSZk51R0

Nah posting in advance is good, just making people aware

starts in 12 hours

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.

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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.

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

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

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.

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