Diablo 1 Open Source Port DevilutionX updates to version 1.5
DevilutionX has hit 1.5, and it's a doozy.
I had originally been following an open source Diablo 1 project called Freeablo, but apparently he stopped because DevilutionX had basically finished before he did. I've been wanting to replay Diablo 1 for a while now, but now that I know this project exists, it's definitely something I'm going to try out soon.
How Binaries/Assemblies are located and loaded in .NET Applications
Learn how the common language runtime (CLR) locates and binds to the assemblies that make up your application in .NET.
I was trying to help a former coworker figure out why an assembly seemed to be missing when an application was copied from one computer to another, as the application directory usually contains all the assemblies it needs with it. As part of my research, I found this article which specifies ALL of the rules of how the .NET Runtime locates them.
I figured I would share, since a lot of people can get tripped up by this.
Trying out RSS
In my quest to prepare myself for reddit's usefulness significantly declining come June 30 / July 1st, I've essentially been having to brainstorm solutions to what I've been using it for.
While I'm attempting Lemmy for the discussion forum side of things, (It's not the only thing I'm trying, but it's the most promising so far), it has been a challenge to replace the link-aggregator aspect of reddit due to the distributed nature of Lemmy. I can no longer just rely on others to find information for me to stay informed. (Not that that was especially a great idea, looking at that statement now, I will admit I just got complacent and lazy)
I randomly remembered RSS feeds were a thing, and decided to look back into it. While definitely not as prevalent as it once was, many places still support it. (Including both Lemmy and reddit; though with reddit who knows for how long)
RSS is probably my best bet, but admittedly, I will have to remember how to use/search the internet again (I really let myself get way too lazy) to find sites that I'm interested in and that support RSS. There's also the issue of finding an appropriate RSS reader, which has proven slightly more complicated than what I was hoping for.
My first RSS reader attempt was the Feedly reader for android. However, I couldn't create an organized feed list to my satisfaction without paying a subscription fee. That may be fine for most people, I personally didn't want another subscription service. Especially when there may be open-source alternatives that I could try to figure out myself (Even if it's a hassle to learn).
After that, I tried to make my RSS reader criteria much more narrow (I believe I included open source as part of my search terms). While I didn't make a list of everything I found (sorry), I did find one that is next on my list of things to try: Tiny Tiny RSS
I have done some preliminary research and testing on this, so I will post some pros, cons and unknowns to this application.
Tiny Tiny RSS Pros, Cons, Information, and Unknowns ----
- Pros
- Free / Open Source
- Has many application clients that can connect to Tiny Tiny RSS instances that are free (I have not tested these yet)
- Windows Store: Tiny Tiny RSS Reader 2
- Android: TTRSS-Reader
- iPhone: tiny Reader RSS
- Cons
- Unless you know of a public site/instance, a person who wants to use this would have to administrate it themselves.
- Looking over the installation guide, "general" users would likely find the install process to be very involved
- Platform Specific
- Windows
- Tiny Tiny RSS uses docker, which, according to the documentation will still end up using a form of linux
- This is not an issue for me, but could be for other less-savy users, especially if something goes wrong.
- Tiny Tiny RSS uses docker, which, according to the documentation will still end up using a form of linux
- Windows
- While not explicitly required, having networking knowledge can make it easer for others to use it.
- If self hosting on your home network
- Unless you're willing to allow outside connections to your network in some way, would only be available for that network
- If hosting elsewhere
- Very unlikely to be free, which would defeat the purpose of using this, IMO
- Yes, techincally hardware isn't free, but the costs are at least up front (if you exclude the somewhat minor increase in the electricity bill) if you buy it yourself, and not another subscription to deal with
- Very unlikely to be free, which would defeat the purpose of using this, IMO
- Extra information
- Windows
- To install on windows, it will require docker, which requires either
- Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
- Every currently surported edition of windows supports this, provided it is up to date
- Hyper-V
- Cannot be used with Home Edition
- Windows Subsystem for Linux 2
- To install on windows, it will require docker, which requires either
- Linux
- Uses docker, but no odd subsystems or Virtual Machines
- Ideas
- Tiny Tiny RSS can be installed on a Raspberry Pi
- Don't forget to consider storage requirements, Tiny Tiny RSS is downloading from RSS feeds
- Probably one of the cheapest setup options, unless you already have another linux machine available
- Tiny Tiny RSS can be installed on a Raspberry Pi
- Outside access thoughts
- Could theoretically set up a VPN to your home network to access your RSS Feed safely
- If you understand the security implications, you could also make it publicly accessible through port forwarding
- The advantage to this is that you could have friends use your RSS feed as well
- If you decide to do this, make sure you really do your homework for computer and network security
- Windows
- Unknowns
- What public Tiny Tiny RSS sites may already exist
- I have not tested each Tiny Tiny RSS client application that I have listed above
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Looking at the list above, there's certainly a lot of downsides for most people, but I don't think it should deter the determined.
Although, the more I think about things like this, the more I consider just setting up my own homelab. But I think Tiny Tiny RSS can at least fulfill my needs for the short term.
Explanation
So, as I've been using Lemmy, I've been trying to make a list of features/requests. But my ideas are not... Complete. They're just simple ideas that may already have a feature request associated with it. So the purpose of this post is to create and share them, put my ideas on paper and see what kind of discussion can come from it. If there is already an issue on the GitHub covered by my idea, let me know! I can update this list to reference that here, so I know it's being worked on.
Anyways, in this post above, and added to this comment below are my ideas, feel free to give feedback or additional ideas. If any of these ideas get enough traction, I'll make a feature request issue on the Lemmy GitHub. (Of course, someone else could beat me to it, too.)
Usability improvements
Optional URL Federating
Currently, to federate, you have to search for an instance using the search in the upper right corner of the site. After it's searched, you can subscribe to the community from a URL templated like this:
https://<instanceDomainName>/c/<communityName>@<targetInstanceDomainName>
If you do not do the search first, (Read: You attempt to go to the community page before using the search function) the above URL would return 404. As a general improvement, I would say when attempting to connect to a community that has not been federated yet, it should at least attempt to federate before returning 404, saving a step.
Built in safety:
- Do not add, search, or federate the community unless this URL is requested by a local member that is signed into site/instance.
- Do not federate community until the local member actually subscribes to that community.
Separate load text for Federating
Related to above, when searching for a community that is not yet federated, there is a delay for a community that hasn't been connected/federated to the current instance. However, when it's done searching the local site, it is still attempting to search and federate to the external site/instance.
For this I recommend any of the following:
- In search results, have separate sections for local and external results.
- When it is still attempting to federate
- It should show that it is in fact, still trying to search and/or federate
- The message should should be distinct from a local search
- Simple ideas:
Federating...- Advantages:
- Simple
- Drives home the concept
- Disadvantages
- Unintuitive (But then again, so is the entire concept)
- Advantages:
Searching for external Community- Advantages:
- More immediately clear
- Disadvantages:
- No side benefits like above
- Advantages:
- Simple ideas:
Notifications issue
If notifications are enabled on a site/instance, and a user decides to allow them, they get a notification for each tab of that site/instance that is open, instead of 1 notification total.
End of Original Post
Current thoughts on Lemmy (Design)
Due to Character limit, an explanation for this post will be appended below this post as a comment.
Ideas
Federation
This section is devoted to improving the Federation experience. Part of the advantage of Federation is that you don't need to belong to any instance in particular, but still be able to access other instances/communities. Now the basic problem with this is just the initial connections, it takes time and searching to find everything you may be interested in, in which there are tools to support this. That being said, I definitely think there can be ways to better support this process, and to create a more quickly connected experience while still allowing granular curation of an instance/site.
Curation Tools
This section is essentially to assist both the ability for users, site admins and site moderators to shape the experience of an Instance/Community/Subscription.
Instance/Site Tools
Concepts and powers that belongs to a site owner or administrator.
Whitelist, Graylist, Blacklist, CustomList for Instances and/or Communities
This sort of exists, but I want to add some more granular control.
- White List
- To those familiar with the concept, this is pretty straightforward, but I would like for this to be more featured.
- This is to explicitly federate with another instance, and have at least their community names show up when clicking on communities.
- I would say provide an option to automatically federate whitelisted communities for whitelisted instances, but not required. This will just help sites/instances get up and running fast if they share interests/values.
- Could also do this for specific communities in an instance.
- Gray List
- This is may be an odd one, but I think it's important.
- When sites federate with one another, as far as I can tell, it's just automatic, as long as it's enabled.
- My thought is that this list would simply be sites/communities that have not been vetted/explicitly approved by the admin
- This ties in with another idea I have, where in addition to a
Subscribed,Local, andAll, there is another tab calledRecommendedorCurated, orLinked, which will be described later. - In addition to Admins, my idea is that users can choose whether they see communities that belong to the graylist by default.
- Black List
- This is kind of already a thing, but I'd like it to be slightly more granular in control
- Not just site blacklisting, but community, just in case it's just one community that's annoying.
- Custom List
- A custom list that is somewhere between White List and Gray List.
- Could be used for more curated
listing_types, as the URL would seem to imply. - Perhaps users could create something similar for themselves, a concept not too dissimilar to the way multi-reddits work back in reddit.
- All lists should have these controls, honestly. You could make multiple White List types, if you felt like it.
Community tools
This would be similar to instance/site tools, but more specific and limited in scope. These settings would not override site/instance settings.
- Connected Communities
- When on an instance, a community can explicity "connect" to another instance's community to have that other instance's community appear alongside the local one.
- Users can override this setting for themselves.
- A local community could theoretically allow moderators from another "connected" community to moderate the local one as well
- Local moderators would always have the final say for what is allowed/posted in that community.
Site/Instance "Name Server"
This is inspired by a couple of technologies/ and ideas I have seen in the past. This is somewhat of a "meta" (Not the Facebook kind) idea, and to some degree, it kind of already exists with sites like Lemmy Community-Browser. However, I think it would be a good idea to have something with at least a "standard" approach.
Not dissimilar to a DNS, a separate, central server with a given standard whose purpose it is to serve Lemmy instances/sites. A site would register with the "Name Server", and a Lemmy instance could then point itself to it to "lookup" other sites automatically. These name servers could also be aware of other name servers, and ask other name servers if it cannot find what is being requested, and then update themselves if found on another name server. Distributed searching and federation.
A site/instance could choose not to do this, of course.
Searching, Sorting
Ideas that make finding and connecting to known communities easier.
Community Tags / Labels
When it comes to federating and searching sites, being able to find what you are looking for is essential. I think that being able to identify a community a tag or label would make finding an relevant community much easier.
Tags/Labels should have two aspects/properties:
A "name", and a "type"
A type should specific what kind of Label/Tag it is.
Label Tag Type Examples:
- Franchise / Intellectual Property
- Obviously this tag type name could use some work
- Example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- Star Wars
- Marvel
- DC
- Lord of the Rings
- Final Fantasy
- Person
- About a specific person
- Example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- George Lucas
- Keanu Reeves
- Career / Job / Role / Profession
- About something someone does
- Example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- Author
- Firefighter
- Group
- As in a collection of people, rather than a specific person
- Generic example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- A Political Party
- American Labor Party
- Chosen from the wikipedia category Defunct US Political Parties
- A Business or Non-profit
- Such as Square Enix
- An Organization or Club
- Maybe too close to Business/non profit?
- I was thinking of a group of people that isn't necessarily a legal entity of some kind, but those are rare
- Maybe too close to Business/non profit?
- Hobby
- Special Interests, done for leisure
- Generic example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- A Sport
- Rugby
- A genre of Games
- Table Top Roleplaying Game
- Video Games
- Card Games
- A Crafting/creating task
- Knitting
- Woodworking
- A Sport
- Industry
- A category that labels an economic category
- Example tag names that could fit this type:
- Finance/Banking
- Public Safety
- Restaurant
- McDonalds or Wendys is an Example
- Hospitality
- Hotels would be an example
- Information Technology
- Software / Programming
- Science
- Example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- Biology
- Computer Science
- Geology
- Chemistry
- Example tag/label names that could fit this type:
- More!
- Feel free to give me more Label/Tag type ideas, this is kind of open ended, I admit
Full Label/Tag Examples:
Template:
```
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Name
- Tag Type ```
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Minecraft
- Hobby
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Biology
- Science
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C#
- Industry / Hobby
- Cases like these annoy me, because this can fit both.
- I mean, technically almost anything can fit into Hobby, but I feel as though the majority case is Industry.
- Perhaps tag/label names can have more than one type, and you can choose to be specific or not.
- The purpose is to make it more searchable/identifiable, so having more than one type wouldn't be a bad thing.
- Need Feedback
- Cases like these annoy me, because this can fit both.
- Industry / Hobby
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Writing
- Profession / Hobby
-
Teaching
- Profession
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This part is a bit more subjective, and could warrant further discussion. I like this idea below, but it could have flaws. Feel free to give feedback to this.
When I originally envisioned tags, Communities should be able to pick one tag as the "Main" tag, but can have as many "lower power" or "sub" tags as they want. Then, a user could search by a "Main" tag name or "Main" tag type, and if they want something more specific, add rules that search the "lower power" or "sub" tags.
This could be built into the "Name Server" idea listed above.
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Lemmy Concepts
These are ideas to improve features that kind of already exist in Lemmy, but would be expanded.
Custom listing_type
Originally, my idea was to have some new defaults which is still a good idea, but I have a better idea on how to implement them now.
Currently, there are three options for viewing communities on an instance: Subscribed, Local, and All
I just want an option to create and configure more of these, whether it's at the site, user level, or both.
For example, a site/instance configured "Related" listing_type that lists communities, from both Local and All that the site/instance admin configured to be "Related" to the site.
- Other options for naming this configured listing_type could include: Recommended, Curated, Linked
This is different from All, because All contains all federated communities, whether it's related to a site/instance or not. Another filter could be related to the "White List" idea above.
A user can choose to not use those custom filters, or create their own personal filters.
Ideas for Filterable fields:
- Instance/Site
- Specific Communities
- tag/label
- Theoretical field from the ideas above
- List (White, Gray, Custom)
- Theoretical field from the ideas above
- Filter Operators
- AND
- OR
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Max limit reached, appending Usability Improvements as comment below.
Found the limit discussion:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/849#issuecomment-1586866980
It is 10K currently. I should definitely create an issue about that that at least informs the user that this limit exist.
Oh man, that would be nice to be an error message somewhere if that's true, haha.
According to Notepad++, the length is 12,450. I wonder how I can share this post, then. Thank you!
Thanks! I've been trying to create a longer post, it's rather long and it uses Markdown syntax, but when I hit "Create" it neither makes a request nor does an error appear in the debugger. Boggling.
A simple post works? What the heck is wrong with my longer post? I suppose I will need to contact a developer. :(
I know the game has come a long way since it's initial release. I was sad when I learned how frustrating an experience it was when it first came out, but it was always a genre that interested me.
I will probably play this game in time for nobody to be talking about it anymore.
Differences between Linux and BSD
Guide to Linux vs BSD. Here we discuss major key differences between Linux vs BSD along with infographics and respective comparison table.
I'm sharing this link here because I did not know much about BSD, except a few odd facts.
For example, the PlayStation 4's OS is based upon FreeBSD.
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Something I learned from the article:
Operating systems needs kernels. Linux is a kernel, which is why there are many operating systems for it. (Red Hat, Debian, Arch, etc)
I don't know why I was confused about that considering I recently was at school for it, I somehow thought of operating systems and kernels as being interchangeable for some reason.
Also, macOS is apparently based off of BSD as well, which I did not know either.
There are a few open source game projects I follow. I suppose the most famous one is the Freespace 2 source code project. Although it didn't start open source, the original devs open-sourced it later. It has great support, and a great modding launcher called Knossos. To play the game, even with the source code, you either need the original disks or a copy of the installer from GoG, but it's really cheap. Getting it working on Windows is pretty easy, but Linux is only slightly more complicated. (Fortunately, there's a new launcher that makes it way easier).
If you're interested, let me know.
Building a new computer
I'm so excited, I'm finally getting to build my computer that I've been wanting to build, while some parts are already bought, this is essentially my build list:
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Hn4gRv
I've also decided to mount the new monitor I'm getting on the wall with this:
https://mount-it.com/products/height-adjustable-monitor-wall-mount-full-motion-gas-spring-arms-mi-3753b?_pos=5&_fid=74cd7f447&_ss=c
and lastly, I have a Micro Center near me, so I decided to look there for the case:
https://www.microcenter.com/product/652904/msi-mpg-gungnir-120r-tempered-glass-atx-mid-tower-computer-case-black
This is the first time I'm building a higher-end computer for both price and capabilities for its time. I cannot wait for it all to arrive!!!
I'm not 100% on how I found this place, I think it was https://browse.feddit.de/ I chose this instance because it was small, involved tech and gaming, and so it seemed like a good fit for me. Just bad timing lead to me not being active this weekend, lol ( started vacation) But I think over time it has the possibility to be more active as I explore and post elsewhere. That being said, Lemmy has room to grow in how it federates and connects to communities. I've been writing down my ideas, and I hope when I post them to github they use them or something similar to it.
Sure, I do not mind for now. I don't have a lot of time to do so, but there's not many subscribers at the moment, so I can probably handle it for the foreseeable future. I'll try to let you know if that changes.
Ah man, I'm sorry about your friend.
I have a friend with CF, there have been some good advancements in medications recently, so it's at least more treatable than it used to be. He has made it to his 30's so far, but I'm still worried for him.
Yes! I figured it out, and honestly, this is a usability issue with Lemmy.
When you use the search feature as mentioned in another post on this topic, there is a delay before it adds communities to the search list. It does not say that it is still searching, even though it is.
So, from the search page, enter the community name like you mentioned: [email protected]
Hit search, then be a little patient. Some results may return very fast, but community results are noticeably slower, and usually end up at the bottom of the list.
Here's an example:
Edit:
I also just noticed this aspect that might make searching for communities a lot easier and more specific. The URL. To access another community from your instance, the URL follows a very distinct pattern that I just discovered. For example, to 'find' and subcribe to that particular community on another instance from your instance, the URL would be:
https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]
I experimented with this a little bit and discovered that all Lemmy instances allow this pattern:
https://<lemmyInstanceDomain>/c/<communityName>@<targetInstanceDomain>
Knowing that will probably make finding communities a lot easier. I kind of wish looking up a particular instance like that was a little more straightfoward. Maybe I can make a feature request?
Edit2:
Okay, the URL thing does not work until the search function completes. But after that, it's available. Maybe that behavior can be changed in the future, though.
Is there a common place people go to obtain frameworks/libraries etc?
Yes!
The main package management solution for C#, Visual Basic, F#, (and other .NET compatible languages) is Nuget, of which the the largest and most popular site for Nuget packages is Nuget.org. It's usage is built into both .Net command line tools as well as the most commonly used IDEs for C#. (Visual Studio Community, Professional, and Enterprise; as well as JetBrain's Rider)
I also recently learned of another package manager solution as well, called Paket, but that may be fairly niche, and not as well known. So that's up to you, honestly.
I came across this on Wikipedia: https://github.com/Microsoft/dotnet/blob/main/dotnet-developer-projects.md
That's not a bad list to include. But Nuget.org is most definitely the most important place to include. (It's possible that other public Nuget sites exist, but I've never needed to go elsewhere)
I think your assessment is fair, my only frame of reference has been reddit, after all. Having a good standard will make it easier to use, understand, and navigate. Having more general communities is a good start, and having more specific and niche communities can come later. Part of the reason for this post was more just to document the kinds of communities I've been a part of. It's quite possible as Lemmy gets improved, that a well-defined or complex naming standard is just not as necessary. Some sites have done clever things with email addresses, after all. It's not impossible that the same could happen with Lemmy in the future.
This instance seemed the most relevant to my interests by it's description, even if it's really new. I was honestly tempted to set up my own at first, but I decided I did not have enough time or personal infrastructure to do so as fast as I wanted to. I think I got really lucky in finding this instance, honestly.
Lemmy is still new to me, so I'm in the process of learning how it all fits together. Not to mention, I'm essentially scrambling at this point since I let myself get too reliant on Reddit, and boy is that biting me now, haha.
Only mildly related to this discussion:
When looking around, I noticed that beehaw mentions sub-communities in the sidebar of some of their communities, but I think that's not really an official thing, from what I can tell, just a regular link.
I have so many ideas, but I'm not sure where to put them. I suppose I could always open an issue an GitHub, but I feel like I want a discussion about my ideas before I create one. It's very possible I'm over-thinking it. Looking at the code base, this might just be the push I need to finally start doing more than reading about rust.
I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, and was planning for my new build (Within the next week or two) to try out PopOS (Which is still based off of Ubuntu).
If I was more familiar with Fedora, I might have tried out Nobara, (but it doesn't have the support that PopOS does yet).
And considering you use Nvidia, I've read that PopOS makes it easier to get drivers for that. If you're still new, either PopOS or base Ubuntu would work, but PopOS might get you set up faster. I wish I could give a more detailed answer.
Oh boy! That both makes sense and doesn't make sense, haha. Now that I know that, finding things will be much easier, now. Thanks!
Oh hey, thanks! These are great suggestions. I'm still getting used to lemmy in general. I'm not sure how to find beehaw. It seems like lemmy.ml is the only community showing up in the all section right now, which is a little odd.
I suppose my assumption is that the other instances have to be added somehow, but I do not know.
I have a lot of PCs for different purposes, so this answer could probably be considered cheating. It really depends on what I am doing. I'll go in order of Highest usage to Least usage, and separate professional usage and personal usage.
Personal
- Future gaming PC: PopOS
- Maybe breaking my own ordering rules a little bit, but this will see the most use when I'm done.
- I am currently in the process of building this.
- I am finally going to try to not use windows for gaming, it's possible it could be futile, but Valve's work on Wine/Proton has made amazing strides.
- Previous gaming PC: Dual boot Ubuntu 22.04/Windows 10
- This is likely to become almost primarily an Ubuntu machine soon.
- Not compatible with windows 11, the windows part is around only to preserve files at this point
- Once I copy everything I want and need, I will see if I can move my filesystems around, this will probably be a huge pain.
- "Gaming" Laptop: Windows 10
- This is merely my most powerful laptop, it would never outperform my future gaming PC, but it's certainly a lot more convenient.
- I'm considering switching over to some flavor of linux at some point, but I'm not ready to do that yet. (Plus I have to see what works with this laptop)
- It is compatible with Windows 11, but I'm not sure if I want to do that. (I may do it just to get the free license, if I need to)
- Media laptop: Windows 10
- Originally a "gaming" laptop, it can't keep up nowadays.
- I converted it into a streaming platform for my console games
- Not compatible with windows 11, so when it goes out of support I will need to find an alternative.
- This will be tricky, the last time I tried to install Ubuntu on it, I got kernel panics during the install process. I'm sure there's something I'm missing to make it work, but I don't have the time/patience/urgency right now.
- College Laptop: Ubuntu 22.04
- I used this primarily for college when I was continuing my education.
- It made connecting to the University's Linux servers a lot easier.
- Has a development environment set up on it.
- The least powerful "general purpose" computer I have
- I'm not sure what to do with this computer now.
- I used this primarily for college when I was continuing my education.
- "Pi Hole" Raspberry Pi: Raspbian
- Used as my personal DNS server.
- Kind of single purpose at the moment.
- I'm not sure if I should use it for anything else?
Professional
I'm not going to list every computer here, so I'll just categorize them by purpose.
- Development: Windows 10
- I'm a .NET Developer
- Visual Studio Enterprise requires Windows 10+
- Server: Windows Server
- For deploying web applications
- CI/CD : Various Linux OSes
- Used for version control servers and CI/CD Pipelines
I personally find Operating Systems to be situational. I wouldn't say one is really better than the other. However, I've been moving away from Windows for personal use lately, as I've been getting more and more frustrated with the overall user experience. I know that custom shells for Windows exist, but I don't know how good of an idea it is to use them.
My personal Community subscriptions that may not fit for this instance.
This post is mostly for myself, honestly. These are communities I like from reddit, but are likely not a great fit for this instance. Since I was documenting all the communities I was a part of, I figured this was at least worth posting. If you find any of them are interesting, feel free to add it.
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Want
Pets
- parrots / birbs
Self-improvement, Skills, Advice
- ADHD
- DIY
News / Entertainment
- news
- webcomics
- business
- worldnews
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Kind of Want
Social
- askreddit/equivalent
- self
- IAmA
- offmychest
- unsentletters
- mildlyinteresting
- mildlyinfuriating
Creative Communities
- polandball
- photoshopbattles
Self-improvement, Skills, Advice
- frugal
- writing / write
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Passing Interest
Self-improvement, Skills, Advice
- college
- cooking
- parenting
- dance
- singing
- fitness
- bicycling
- flexibility
- socialskills
- malefashonadvice
- loseit
- explainlikeimfive
News / Entertainment
- economy
- upliftingnews
- Chicken_thoughts
- NPR
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Maybe too specific
Self-improvement, Skills, Advice
- backtocollege
- LearnJapanese
- keto
- frugalmalefashion
- buyitforlife
- bodyweightfitness
- DatingAfterThirty
Location-based
- gmu - (A University)
Meta
- bestoflegaladvice
Social
- Idontworkherelady
- dontyouknowwhoIam
- maliciouscompliance
- funnyandsad
- Pareidolia
- okcupid
- retiredgif
Creative Communities
- historicalwhatif
- IAmAFiction
- armoredwomen
- vexillologyCircleJerk (A silly community based upon flags, I would want to rename it if I wanted something similar)
Trading / Sales
- gameswap (While maybe technically a good fit, it's probably not a good idea here)
- animedeals
Location-based
- PrinceWilliamCounty
- Japan
- Australia
- Seattle
- UnitedKingdom
- Virginia
- nova
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Historical
Just for reference.
- PartyParrot (A celebration of birds, essentially)
- inthesoulstone (Back from reddit's snap event. I just want to remember.)
- C_programming (Already exists here, but I'm subscribed on Reddit)
Community Ideas / Places that I subscribed to elsewhere
This post serves two purposes:
- To discuss possible communities for this instance.
- To archive communities that I was previously subscribed to from reddit.
- My memory is really bad, and it's possible that I could lose my ability to find the kinds of things I'm looking for.
This post is not comprehensive, I just think these particular communities have the most relevance to what I've seen here so far. It is ordered by my personal preference, then by category/subcategory.
Feel free to throw out ideas for consolidation. Since this place is relatively small at the moment, I figure it's better to be more general than specific right now.
(Are tags/labels a thing in lemmy? That could help organize more general communities)
Want
Communities that I really like, and think would be a good fit, though some consolidation might be necessary.
Tech
- technology
- gadgets
- geek
- technews
- electricvehicles (Maybe?)
Development / Administration
- programming
- learnprogramming / askprogramming
- csharp
- dotnet
- linux / linux4noobs
- PowerShell
- gamedev
- webdev
Gaming
- boardgames
- games/gaming
- webgames
- outside (Maybe too specific, but I love this place)
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Kind of Want
Communities that I browse, but don't participate in that often.
Tech
- buildapc (Perhaps should be a part of PC Gaming, but there's many reasons to build a PC)
Development / Administration
- typescript
- fsharp
- programmerHumor
- homelab
Meta communities
Communities about communities/instances.
- bestof One for this instance, perhaps)
Loose fit
Communities that may or may not fit this instance, but has some overlap or adjacency, at least.
- movies
- anime
- audiobooks
- personalfinance
- jobs
- cscareerquestions
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Passing Interest
Communities that I'm subscribed to, but probably needs some consolidation or renaming.
Tech
- rust (the programming language)
- devops
- amateurradio
Gaming
- gamesociety (Like a book club for games. Perhaps could belong to retro, but I'm not sure)
- gamemusic
Retro
Possible consolidation candidate. RetroGaming, intended for games/consoles out of support/no longer being made.
- RockinTheClassics
Specific Genres
Perhaps too specific, but I'm not sure if this is easily consolidated. Ideas welcome.
- flightsim
Loose fit
Communities that may or may not fit this instance, but has some overlap or adjacency, at least.
- ted
- khan (khan academy)
- swords
- GameDeals
- datasets
- futurology
- justrolledintotheshop (Sort of like IT work, IMO)
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Maybe too specific
These are communities I'm subscribed to, but they are usually very specific. If possible, I'd like to consolidate these, but it's tricky.
Tech
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AMD (Probably belongs to buildapc or PC_gaming, but could be a tag, if that's a thing in lemmy)
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Ubiquiti (Tech brand)
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cableManagement (Maybe this and the two below could belong to a homelab type thing, related to buildapc, perhaps)
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cableadvice
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deskCableManagement
Development / Administration
- CollaborateCode
- ADHD_programmers (This is so specific, but I fit into this category. I don't know where I'd find something similar)
- programmerTIL
- learncsharp - (Too specific, learnprogramming should be sufficient)
- darknetplan
- keepournetfree - (Technically could be considered a political issue (Related to net neutrality), but it's very specific. Up to you.)
Frameworks / Engines / Software
There has to be a better consolidated name for this kind of thing.
- angular2
- vulkan
- openGL
- Unity3D
- Unity2d
- unity_tutorials
- godot
- RPGMaker
- electronjs
- vmware
- ansible
- puppet
- azuredevops
Gaming
- linux_gaming (A subset of PC_gaming, perhaps, but it's a good niche, IMO)
- soloboardgaming (A subset of boardgaming, I don't know if lemmy supports tags)
- incremental_games (Perhaps belong to a genre type thing?
- gamernews (Probably unnecessary here, really, if we can tag posts)
- ludology (Probably unnecessary here, really, if we can tag posts)
- playdate (Not sure how this would work here, if it could)
- SteamPlay
Retro
Possible consolidation candidate. RetroGaming, intended for games/consoles out of support/no longer being made.
- dreamcast
- vita
- wiiu
- sega32x
- 3ds
- gameboyAdvance
- xlinkKai (Allows network play for older console games)
Modern
This is another candidate for consolidation. Games/Consoles that are still supported or being made.
- nintendoswitch
Specific Games
Probably too specific to make a community here, but I at least want to document it.
- anotheredenGlobal
- Fallout
- acecombat
- Starcraft
- Minecraft
- ffxiv (Perhaps could make a more general sub like MMO_Games)
- civ
- theeternalwar (About a very specific game of civ3, only here for documentation purposes)
- CivPolitics
- factorio
- simtower
- DissidiaFFOO
- sc2mods
- cityofheroes
- Freespace (Perhaps could inspire a more general community, OpenSource_Games or something)
- Wasteland
Content/Content Creator (?)
Loose fit, these are specific discussion forums I go to about people I follow or sites/content I pay attention to.
- TheWeeklyRoll
- TheCompletionist
- gametheorists
- Phelous
I am trying it out just to understand it's nuances. I think the concept is solid, but I feel like the federated part could use a little more work so it's more possible to use whatever lemmy instance you prefer. Signing up on any particular instance is fine (Though I wish it had more options), but if I cannot get onto an instance that I prefer, it's tricky to curate my experience.
That being said, I think it is a fixable problem, and I have ideas to fix that based upon other websites I've used, but I have no idea where to submit them.