Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.

You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.

What’s to stop someone from just not checking the ‘bot account’ option for their bot though?

If they didn’t get paid by Reddit they likely sold it on the dark web.

Damn, 20k subs already!?!

I could have sworn it was 7k like 3 days ago.

OP hates Linux

Sorry OP, people who like Linux tend to have the same values this platform advertises.

It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.

For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.

Halo was a legit competitor to cod just past a decade ago.

Now you can’t even compare them because COD is bigger than ever while halo is a shadow of its former self.

Infinite really could have been a partial comeback for halo if they had a steady stream of content after launch, but somehow they added even less than most non-live service games.

ID software (makers of doom), would make a halo game better than anything 343 could put out.

The single player on rails experience is desperately needed.

In a nutshell: corporate greed. The only part of the game that was live service was the paid cosmetics.

At launch, their entire idea of more ‘content’ was just visual cosmetics. If you look at their communications at the time it will all make sense.

They constantly referred to an internal ‘live service’ team separate from the rest of the game, and that team was effectively the ‘cosmetics team’.

People talk about contractors, but this was the real problem. They thought they could get away with barely adding any real content and selling tons of cosmetics.

I pay them nearly $100 a month for internet. They can get fucked if they want to dictate what legal things I do with it.

Implementation quirks.

I find even across instances in the same app, the content can change.

One of the growing pains, it will be solved with time.

Another Pro tip:

If you really want to self host and have good internet speeds, then just use a dynamic dns service to point a domain at your home network :)

It’s free minus the power costs. Sure you won’t be able to guarantee availability but for most personal(and friends/family) use it’s more than good enough.

I say this because the reason a lot of people use VPS is because their ISP won’t give them a static IP. You don’t need a static IP.

I got rid of it 2 years ago for Apollo and tried it again briefly last month.

Somehow it got significantly worse, you can’t even choose how to sort your feed anymore.

The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.

I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.

For real, on Reddit an 8 hour old post and nobody will see your comment.

Here I can comment on a post 2 days old and still get replies.

Yes but it will take at least a few years of organic use before you can do what we do with Reddit and add ‘Lemmy’ at the end of your search query.

I’m really confident Lemmy can be the future, so I’m being as active as possible while it’s small.

To everyone reading this: if you see a post with 0 comments, even a few days old, leave one. You could spark a conversation.

Man this game is such a joke.

I personally voted to allow memes for the sake of growing this place quickly but I’m happy with the result. The number of votes shows that we probably already have enough active users to create meaningful discussions.

I think that would qualify as a meme though ;).