Same, I could never really get into mastodon as I never liked Twitter much, so I'm pretty happy I found out about Lemmy. I know everyone on this site has been saying this, but it feels fresh, and the fact that it's all open source and community owned is great.
My favorite thing about this is the emacs actually has M-x butterfly now that randomly flips a bit.
It took me a bit to figure out. Open the sidebar, you should see something that says "Anonymous" on top, click that and there is an add account button.
Yeah im hoping some of the smaller hobbyist communities start moving over.
It's the name of the reddit alien logo. It's also the name they call the employees apparently.
I'd add Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 to this as well, may be the best crpgs ever imo! Planescape and Baldurs Gate both use the infinity game engine if I recall correctly.
If you're looking for something a little more modern but with a very similar feel to those, I really like Pillars of Eternity.
I personally like duck duck go, the results are generally pretty good, and if they aren't, it's easy to search on other engines using DDG's bangs. You just type "!g search term" and you can search on Google, and there's a bunch more, like !w for Wikipedia, !aur for the arch user repo etc etc
I've been using sql for like 15 years now, and I've never heard anyone call it squeal! It's always ess-cue-ell or sequel
Oh wow I knew modest mouse was still active, didn't know built to spill was still around! I was actually just listening to the plan last night, I'm gonna need to check out their new album.
I wouldn't say these are any newer than the 90s bands in the OP but they are definitely less well known and awesome.