This is an amazing story.

Conversation article here:

https://aussie.zone/post/165345

https://theconversation.com/victoria-has-rediscovered-a-dragon-how-do-we-secure-its-future-208097

While I don’t disagree with your statement, this is what I was referencing:

The term “boomer shooter” is a playful reference to the ‘Baby Boomer’ generation who were the initial audience for these games.

I don’t think there is any doubt there.

I like the name and it’s memorable but I dont believe FPS were intended for “boomers”, weren’t they aimed at Gen X/maybe early millennials who were the young adults/children in these timeframes? Games weren’t an adulting pastime back then, it was child’s play.

I bet there were a few boomers playing but Gen X would have been the dominant gaming generation.

I can’t believe Gen X have been forgotten again.

Ralph Wiggum Beaver: I’m helping.

I always preferred the community “Fuck Lawns”. We are well past the point of “No” in this current stage of biodiversity collapse.

That’s just business.

If people use Facebook after the genocide in Myanmar and Cambridge Analytica then reddit will be fine?

Agreed. There are hundreds of instances for that we can all join.

Even if OP makes a new account on another instance just to create it.

If it’s the first time that has been searched by a user of your instance, it takes time. Subsequent people using it and searches will be quicker.

@SuitedUpDev@feddit.nl is right, basically.

This is what I’ve done and at this point, I prefer to Jerboa, feels exactly like an app.

Since no one mentioned it,

Stabbot - the video stabilising bot to fix videos that the uploader didn’t bother with.

Songfinder bot seems handy to prevent earworms.

Plus a lot of the other ones mentioned. Just helpful bots with a distinct purpose that come in when asked to save time or educate.

Yeah, I get ya but when you scroll that list you can see why it’s a hard topic to reply to. There is a lot of fun to be had!

I hope it continues to be worked on.

I could see a resurgence of discussion and some real niche communities hiding behind that layout. Perhaps some themes to recreate other old forum styles too.

The piece of string is very long!

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

You may need to work backwards, identify a service as a need and then figure out which software to run.

Lucky that lemmy has that nostalgia covered - https://fedibb.ml/

If you joined beehaw, you aren’t exposed to lemmygrad which is what they may be talking about. Some of them are far, far left and because they outnumbered other Lemmy users, the general vibe of viewing posts was a little extreme.

They are dropping away on the community browser so they may be relegated to niche rather than dominant as more users join.