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Do you think that Lemmy will last or will it die in a few weeks?
  • Lemmy is turning into a left-wing echo chamber. The mods have declared that right-leaning opinions are not welcome and are defederating from any right-leaning instances. If you declare that half the population is not welcome, you're really limiting your reach. It's also going to be a pain to have two logins, one for lemmy.world and one for the free speech instances.

  • A few of my favorite "retro" gaming devices
  • Yeah, it's nice. I've had it 2 years now. It's sturdy, hasn't broken yet. I'm not feeling the need to upgrade yet. If I was buying new, I'd get something newer. I was considering a GPD Win Mini, but $1000 is a lot and GPD has so many QA issues,

  • I have some questions, i think? manly about godot.
  • The most important thing is to learn basic programming first. You need to learn thing like if/while/for, how functions work, how variables work, what is a pointer/reference, how object oriented programming works, etc.

    I would start with Godot 4.0, which is the current stable version. 4.1 should be out soon.

    I wouldn't try making a 3D game at first. Try a simple 2D game. Use pixel art instead of complex graphics.

    Godot should work on a low-end PC.

  • Should Lemmy have Karma?
  • No. It just leads to people gaming the system. I also think that counting upvotes but not downvotes is also a good idea, when ranking which posts show first. Too many people use downvote for "I disagree", which means a true idea with less than 50% popularity gets buried.

  • How is a company like Reddit “not profitable” yet?
  • A site like Reddit could be run on a skeleton crew of 20-50 people. That's what Elon Musk is trying to do somewhat with Twitter, slashing unnecessary employees. (Example: How many people are working on lemmy?)

    Look at it from the viewpoint of an executive. "I managed a 5 person team." makes you sound like a loser. "I managed a 100 person division" makes you sound like a Big Important Person, even if 95 of those jobs were unnecessary.

    Also look at it from the viewpoint of investors. If an investor puts $200M into Reddit, they want Reddit to be spending $100M-$200M on growth. No investor would put $200M into reddit if reddit was going to just run a barebones operation spending $20M per year and then coasting for 10 years off the investment money.

  • Self hosted games?
  • Most incremental games are html that just runs in a browser. Only the ones that have multiplayer would have some sort of server code, and the developers usually don't publish that.