Every 1~2 years there is a new source of mob mentality, some times a few. AI seems to be the one of the newer ones. So I wouldn’t sweat too much on downvotes for not being automatically against AI.

Not the type of software I’d use so nothing comes to mind, but if nobody responds, maybe try also asking on !artificialintelligence@lemmy.world, !ArtificialIntelligences@lemmy.world and/or !bots@lemmy.world?

Tempted to run the RSS feeds just for each community I follow, to see how many I get in a fresh instance of my reader. But qualitative instead of quantitative, I can notice pretty much every week I have to unfollow some group because it’s too much to keep track of.

Isn’t Lemmy older than 6 years though? Dunno on the federation aspect, but sorting posts on Lemmy instances by oldest first shows a few older posts.

Still, by the time these oldest posts were made, Reddit was already some 10 years old to my knowledge, and we can’t even be sure if their active users’ numbers are real due to lack of transparency and these numbers coming from a single source instead of being a sum of several independent ones.

And at least an impression of mine, but in these ~4 years I’ve been around, engagement seems to be growing slowly but steadily. And I’d need to put on a graph the data shared about the growth of the fediverse from another community, but the numbers overall seem to be growing there too.

On taking down Reddit, I’d advise against it. Competition is what lets products and services improve. What I’d expect in an organic competition, however, is for Reddit to deflate into a shadow of its former self, keeping only a nicher usefulness, like Tumblr did and thus becoming just another forum.

Iirc “spam” comes from a skit from Monty Python criticizing how prevalent the brand was, to the point it felt like it was everywhere.

But unlike a product in the market, posts are easier to tackle. If the poster/reposter becomes an annoyance, the user just needs to block or, depending on the software and desire, mute the poster/reposter. If just certain domains are an annoyance, block the domain either natively if possible, or with extensions, scripts and/or filters. If just specific posts are a problem, voting and/or hiding posts can be done.

So imo, while the volume can be a tad annoying, if the annoyed users do use the features provided by the platform or more extremely by extensions, these posts shouldn’t become the meme of Monty Python’s joke on the canned food.

By this reasoning, the rate limiting added to PieFed recently-ish starts making far more sense. Not what you propose and not Rimu’s reasoning that I’d seen, but should also help decreasing the acceleration of resources consumption.

RIP

RSS helps avoiding part of the BS those “2010’s platforms” put the users through, like curating what you follow, having access to shadowbanned users and groups, and redundancy in case those you follow get banned, “mysteriously” gone from a given platform, the platform becomes unreachable, etc.

Can’t help with so little details.

Regarding the OP, deja vu…

But about including ActivityPub to one’s own site, if I may add, Wordpress, NeoDB and Threads have integrations to it, Tumblr considered it even if the idea was dropped later on, and Bridge Fedi is a thing for federating to/from Bluesky and other AT Protocol platforms. So if @PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com thinks it’s within scope, go crazy, I’d say.

And about being a “ghost town”, if you want #engagement, you need to engage yourself. Drop comments on topic with posts you see over the #fediverse, and people may start replying. The more you do, the more likely someone is to reply.

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While you can’t browse hashtags, you can pull them with #RSS, e.g. https://mastodon.social/tags/android.rss

Also, as others said, @Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone, if the game is on a DRM-free-oriented platform, like GOG, Itchio, etc., you could look for those.

Additionally, looking for sources of a given game can help find where it’s less of a hassle to get it, specially through databases or adjacent, like PCGamingWiki, ITAD, NeoDB (fediverse-compatible!), GameFAQS, etc. Also apparently it isn’t uncommon for databases to cross-reference each other, so one can lead to another.

If the game is only on Steam, install Linux on a VM, install Wine in it, run SteamCMD through Wine, download the build you want, and move to your host OS.

SteamCMD is a minimalist/terminal-based version of Steam. The Windows version can be downloaded separately. However, it downloads needed libraries and I’m not sure how good Steam is at escaping Wine’s environment, so a VM adds an extra security layer. Also the command changes depending of whether it’s 32-bit or 64-bit, if it’s for Linux, MacOS or Windows, or even if it’s a previous, still public update, and it’s been some years since I used those and I don’t have the commands noted down, so can’t help with that at least right now.

If something’s allowed to be pirated, it can’t be pirated.

Haven’t played many recent homebrews, but of the recent-ish games I did play, other than Micro Mages mentioned in another comment, there’s Nyx - The Paradox Relic (NES) and Tanglewood (Mega Drive).

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Haven’t seen anyone pissed about this yet, but in case someone appears, lest we forget Ani.Social’s issues with Lemmit.Online.

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Every journey has a beginning though!

Perfection.