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- Comment on Any good indie games on steam? Can be any genre. 6 days ago:
hidden as the list can be long; also should I list games not on Steam?
- 8Doors: Arum's Afterlife Adventure
- A Vampyre Story
- ABZÛ
- Anodyne
- Battle Chef Brigade
- Celeste
- Codemancer
- Coromon
- Dandara
- Divekick
- Downwell
- Dreaming Sarah
- Dreamscaper
- DUSK '82
- Etherborn
- Hollow Knight (& Silksong)
- Ittle Dew
- JackQuest
- Knight Club (friends required for this one)
- Kraken Academy
- LiEat
- Lost in Dungeon
- LYNE
- Micro Mages (includes ROM!)
- Momodora III (iirc the franchise wasn't under a bigger publisher's umbrella then)
- Monaco: What Is Your Is Mine
- Notrium
- One Strike
- Phoenotopia
- Quest of Dungeons (dev is here on Mastodon btw!)
- Songs for a Hero (also play in Portuguese if you can understand!)
- Starbound
- Stardew Valley
- Super Dungeon Boy
- Super Skelemania
- Tallowmere
- Tanglewood (also comes with a ROM!)
- The Amazing American Circus
- The Corruption Within
- The Rainsdowne Players
- Tyrant's Blessing
- UNLOVED
- Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
- VVVVVV
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 week ago:
The time it takes to browse each feed and to go to the next builds over time and can be tiresome after a while. Plus sites usually don't allow hiding seen posts (e.g. Twitter), and the ones that do are usually slow at that (e.g. Mastodon). And also, RSS feeds allow having a local backup of who you follow, without the risk of shadowbans (e.g. Youtube silently unsubscribing you) or the site you had those you follow go dark overnight (e.g. kbin.social). And lastly, it helps controlling just how much clogging there is in your feed - after all, people only have so much time on Earth.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 week ago:
In the scope of the post, I was commenting about following users specifically. But yeah, RSS is generally an "app", a program aside from the others. And you you embed links, yes.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 week ago:
RSS feeds are a way to receive posts without having to access a site directly.
The "RSS reader", a program to display posts fetched from RSS feeds, usually gets new posts through the feed's link you provide.
This link updates the contents it delivers each time a new post is made.
RSS readers often have the option to open a post's original link through your default browse or a custom browser.
If the app you use can open links from Lemmy, a functionality from Android apps, you can use the RSS reader to get new posts from users you want to follow.
Does it make more sense now? Not asking angrily, btw. (absence of tone in text is a bit of a PITA "<.< )
Alternatively, to follow users, you could try using Friendica and/or Mbin. Both are compatible with Lemmy communities, and can follow users as well. However, I am not aware of any apps for them, meaning you'd need to use them on browsers.
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 week ago:
I am not familiar with fediverse apps, but you could pick the feed for a given user, put in a RSS reader, and open new entries if the app can pick links for a given instance.
As for the feed itself, for example, for your profile directly on Lemmy World, it's the signal icon to the right of the interrogation symbol at the bottom has the link for it, and you put the link in the RSS reader:
- Comment on Multiple Questions? 1 week ago:
About following users, that can be somewhat achieved with RSS - Lemmy provides a feed for each user's post history.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
There's Loops if you also want ActivityPub compatibity.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
PS3. Coming from the PS2, the library was bland in comparison. And later on, when I got interested in console modding, the PS3 was the slowest and most cumbersome to do anything and with barely any variety of homebrew stuff. And also, I'm dreading having to replace the controller (due to the 3rd party PS button situation) and replacing the HD (due to how entangled pieces apparently are).
Later on, it'd become an overpowered PS2 console for me.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Iirc, FFX is a ~200h game if you go for optionals, ~80h if you focus mostly on the main story. So if the start takes maybe 3h (at least how long I go about without rushing and without challenges), the start doesn't seem too long.
About looking weird, could be, yeah. Apparently from the SNES to the N64 and PS1 was a major leap too, which gave all those experimental 3D games;
- Comment on On Lemmy, can I @ or mention someone on another ActivityPub service? 2 weeks ago:
To @FarraigePlaisteach: there are also communities made specifically to test, so you can pick an alt or two and try ping each other back and forth.
- Comment on Day 664 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
If you don't like overly long and slow starts, beware Final Fantasy X e.e"
On these graphics, I'd been playing some GameCube games recently, and it feels like a trend for this console, to go overboard with lighting, excessive amount of details in the scenary, pastel colors when possible, and an almost otherworldly overall feel.
Even Eternal Arcadia Legends, which is a remaster, not even an original GC IP, gets a bit of this treatment. "<.<
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 2 weeks ago:
I meeeeean, I already tried something like that with !vitahacksplus answering questions I thought to be interesting from Reddit, since my account from Reddit had been banned already and even if the OP didn't see the post as a reply, it'd be floating the internet at least. But at the time I had been trimming my RSS feeds and the ones for the Vita had too much fluff.
So I think it's valid, though I'd say it's best to not pretend you're the one making the questions.
- Comment on How to search Lemmy like Reddit? 3 weeks ago:
First would be to be in a big instance, to ensure maximum reach. Iirc lemmy.world is one of the biggest, so that is ticked already.
Second would be to have such contents posted to your instance or to instances yours follows. The fediverse is generally young, so by simple age disparity, Reddit generally has more info. Going in this line, no matter how niche something may seem, if it was helpful for you, it could be helpful for others, so I'd suggest posting as these come.
Third, Lemmy might be a bit self-isolated, given its purpose is near exclusively to be a Reddit alternative. Considering to use hybrid instances, that bring together community-based posts (in style of e.g. Reddit, PHP forums, etc.), and user-centric posts (in style of e.g. Twitter, Tumblr, etc.) could give you a bigger reach, such as Friendica and Mbin, though for an immediate use, most of those instances are still rather small.
Fourth, RSS bots could help. There's some in the community-based instances, and some on the microblogging platforms (the Twitter and related ones). Posts received through RSS also generally have the same amount of information from title and blurb as search results. Also bridging technologies to be able to simultaneously post to AT Protocol platforms and platforms using other protocols could also help.
Fifth, going in line with the first and third points, hoarding communities and people to follow ensures posts come to your instance. Though as that can easily bloat your feed, I'd suggest checking your instance's rules to see if they allow "mule" accounts, so it can follow everything instead of your main one.
Sixth, if you find a post from another instance and it is compatible with Lemmy, you can search for the link in your instance's search bar. If the post hadn't been federated yet, it should then federate when you search for it.
In short, if you want it to be a search engine/knowledge database, first people need to build towards that. And the fediverse being rather young requires persistence, specially in an age people are trained to have everything immediate.
Trying to think if I missed something, maybe other than "most big sites have RSS or RSS bridges, Reddit included".
- Comment on The Moral Dilemma Of Supporting SNK In 2026 5 weeks ago:
Article is pretty straight to the point, but in case someone doesn't want to read through it, or the title seems too clickbaity, here's the part that imo sounded like the central idea of the article:
- Comment on Just so you all admins know, we have a library named after us The Patnou l.world Library Any thoughts? 5 weeks ago:
Not familiar with this library, but wouldn't this be better mentioned on any of the fediverse communities (!fediverse, !fediverse, !fediverse, !fediverso, etc.), or even "Press coverage of the Fediverse" (!fediverse_press)?
- Comment on How come we can't have a page of 100 before clicking next page? Or at least 50? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe suggest on Lemmy's issue tracker? Other softwares such as Mastodon, Mbin and Misskey already got infinite scroll, so Lemmy expanding even to a fixed number doesn't seem impossible technically.
- Comment on Can I change my @ name? Because it is my sister in laws last name and people are making connections. On her FB X Insta and whatever. I don't want her to get hate for something i typed? 1 month ago:
Also a bit of a tangent, but if it's also your last name, I don't see what's the problem of using it? Multiple people may have the same one, so there isn't an exclusivity on name usage.
And if people are picking on her because of the shared name, see if people doing so reveal their names. And if not, ask them to, to either disarm them or reveal their intentions.
- Comment on Can I change my @ name? Because it is my sister in laws last name and people are making connections. On her FB X Insta and whatever. I don't want her to get hate for something i typed? 1 month ago:
On the fediverse, from what I read, no, name is final. Apparently that's because in the fediverse, there's no underlying user ID, so an instance checks the user at (@) a given instance, not someone else for the same contents. And forcefully replacing could cause issues, going by some instance that changed the software soon but not enough, making connected instances have issues handling content mismatch.
- Comment on Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG 3 months ago:
Played it some years ago. Story felt to be a lot on the weak side, but in retrospect, the gameplay was superb. =D
- Comment on Final Fantasy III, IV, VIII and IX are now available on GOG 3 months ago:
Being made officially DRM-free would allow pushing back to the notion ownership though. Piracy however, is just more ammunition for companies to take away that notion.
- Comment on Is there a way we can go back to the community spotlight where lets say weekly we find one and want to promote it? Sorry to bother.....no sarcasm in that. 3 months ago:
Just checked, 1909 communities blocked from my side. /All page doing wonders for finding what to follow and what to block. "<.<
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 3 months ago:
90's kid myself so I probably don't fit into the old gamer category, but my grievance with launchers is the same with most UI systems: I must figure out how the author expected it to be used, and if there's something that bothers me, finding ways to circumvent or solve it is a quest.
At least with terminal-based tools, or very basic lanunchers, I can find ways to make launching games ideal, even by bridging to a program or the system's UI.
- Comment on Is there an alternate history community here in Lemmy? 3 months ago:
- Comment on Is there a Lemmy community for future predictions? (crosspost from !div0@dbzer0.com) 4 months ago:
!futurology maybe?
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 months ago:
Agreed. And in this line of more subtle storytelling, from the games I played from the franchise, if anything, it took all the way to Portal 2 for some things to start making sense.
- Comment on Piefed 4 months ago:
By the way, if you know the handle of a community, e.g.
fediverse@piefed.socialforhttp://piefed.social/c/fediverse, you can add a ! to the beginning of it, e.g.!fediverse@piefed.social, and send it as a DM to an alt account, or as the text body of a post to some test community. Then when clicking on the hyperlink it creates, initial federation with that community should start and let you subscribe. In the example I gave, it becomes !fediverse. It should also work with Peertube channels and Mbin magazines, and I'd imagine so too but yet to test, Friendica groups and Wordpress blogs. - Comment on Me llegó la nueva Revista Replay #55 5 months ago:
Han formas de hacerlo ads sin sonar como a un bot. Además, ¿quizás lo quiera cambiar la lengua al español en las configuraciones de su post?
- Comment on Repost! 5 months ago:
microblogging boosting intensifies
- Comment on Following up on my request to mod c/drugs and c/weed 5 months ago:
Wonder if there's any place like !communityrequest, but for Lemmy World. Alternatively, maybe you could create another community, be it on your current instance or on another. For that option also, never seen drama arise from redundant communities in the ~2 years I'm around.
- Comment on Looking for games to watch Let's Plays of: Recommend me something! 5 months ago:
In the line of cinematic games, maybe Journey also?
Maybe Songs for a Hero too, but do mind it has two dubbings (Portuguese and English) and they sound different from each other.