SorteKanin
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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 19 hours ago:
actually starting a new instance on the same domain name would be… very weird, potentially extremely problematic. The system would not be able to tell apart users from the old site and the new site.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
On the other hand, as far as I can tell, they only called for new admins/mods 4 months ago and not since then. I agree that if you care about something, you should support it and not wait until they cry for help, but there is also a matter of being proactive and transparent about how volunteer recruitment is going (well or badly).
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
I don’t believe admins should voice their opinion in this way
Why not? Not every instance has to be neutral on all points.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
That is a terrible and wildly inaccurate analogy. Running an instance is not comparable to a nature reserve
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Don’t feel bad, it’s not like it’s your fault. Just keep it in mind for the next instance you join, if they seem to be struggling or call for help.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
I think they just mean that it’s heavily moderated and principled. Which is fine and kind of the point.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
A lot of those people would be correct :)
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
I think you’re retroactively reinterpreting your vague phrasing, but whatever dude. I don’t think that particular post has anything to do with it.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
That’s four months ago. Unfortunate that they didn’t call for more urgent help after that. But I suppose it’s too late now.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Because a couple weeks ago, the lemm.ee crew made a post asking for donations
They didn’t, that was a post asking to donate to lemmy, the software.
You cannot possibly convice me that didn’t somehow influence this decision to shutdown the instance.
I can because it’s completely irrelevant, and what stopped this instance seems to have nothing to do with the development, but rather to do with the amount of volunteers and their work load.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
No, that post is a request from the lemm.ee admins to donate to Lemmy, the software. Not to donate to lemm.ee. You’re talking about the same post.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
It’s possible that lemm.ee grew too fast for its own good. Also possible that it lacked an “identity” as it was very general purpose. Certain instances attract users that behave better. Perhaps lemm.ee did not (no shade on anyone, just speculating).
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
I would hope that the users would not go immediately to lemmy.world, but rather other instances. But you may be right unfortunately
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Sad to hear of your problems, but thank you for the time you did put into it! Nothing lasts forever but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t worthwhile.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Yes, actually.
Link? Just out of curiosity.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
… They are literally saying they don’t have admins/mods enough. You want to strain your mods? Allowing comments on that sort of post is how you do that.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
It may also be relevant to note that content from lemm.ee will not be deleteable once they go offline. If you are a user on lemm.ee and there is any content at all that you may at some point in the future want to delete, now is the time.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Well that’s sudden and unexpected. Was there any calls for admins? I’m sort of surprised that lemm.ee couldn’t find enough volunteers with their sizable user base.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
What does forking have to do with this instance shutdown? They were lacking admins for running the instance, not developers.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 1 day ago:
Yea, I’m really surprised as well. Was there any build up to this? Any calls for help?
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 1 week ago:
How is this bullying not moderated? That just seems weird. I’ve always felt Mastodon kinda fails at moderation in this aspect. He should go to Lemmy instead.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
revisit just prior to launch
This is simply not feasible - menus include pause menus, talent trees, inventories, all that kind of stuff. All of that is necessary for proper gameplay testing. You can’t just “bang that out in a few days”.
I’m sorry, but this idea that any of this is easy enough to do in a few days and not crucial enough to iterate on throughout development instead of just doing it at the end, is exactly the kind of naive attitude that the Helldivers and Palworld devs are talking about.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
Tbf memory leaks can be very hard to diagnose and can also be hard to avoid in any software written in a language like C++, which is probably what Diablo 4 is written in.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
menu system
I think you are vastly underestimating how complicated menu systems and UI in games are. I have a friend who works as a professional game developer in a small studio and far as I heard, he’s spent most of his time just working on their UI/menus.
Changing these things is neither easy nor fast.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Arguably any time loop is a paradox as it has no beginning. It kinda breaks cause and effect but I mean yea we’re talking time travel so I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
I think it is because Windows has many subsystems, it’s just that you don’t hear about most of them aside from WSL.
So it is referring to the particular Windows Subsystem (of which there are many) that can run or emulate Linux.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 weeks ago:
A pi with multiple terabytes of storage?
- Comment on Usernames using randomized nonsense 3 weeks ago:
I get the concern but I don’t think you need to be as concerned as with email. Email is a lot simpler without a lot of validation. On the fediverse, HTTP Signatures are used to verify requests, so you can’t spoof stuff as easily.
That said, spam mitigation will probably still be an issue that continuously needs to be dealt with.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 5 weeks ago:
It’s not that hard to understand. The whole gaming industry is filled with people who are super passionate about games, like passionate to a fault. This makes it very, very difficult to unionize as there’s almost always some other game dev out there who would take the job for less pay and more hours.
I actually know a friend like that. He was job jumping a lot, looking for game dev roles almost exclusively. He finally landed such a role. Far as I heard, he’s working overtime a lot (voluntarily) and he earns less than half of what I earn as a “regular” software developer.
- Comment on Creating your own federated microblog | Fedify 5 weeks ago:
Kind of a strange blog post. Clearly it requires a lot of technical knowledge, yet it explains basic TypeScript syntax and variables and how to use an editor. While simultaneously showing SQL code. There doesn’t seem to be a clear target audience to this.