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  • The OG comment is referencing the body of this post, which are stats from the website. The website is using outdated steam stats, the comment is pointing that out.

    The comment you replied to that was pointing that out was not corrolating the steam stats as general linux stats, only pointing out that the linux userbase on steam has grown since those outdated stats.











  • Phrononix’s forum is known for having some of the most toxic individuals in the open-source ecosystem, with flame wars, pointless complaining and arguing happening usually starting within the first 10 comments.

    I have no idea why or how it got so bad there specifically, but it’s bad. Though oddly enough, in-between all the negativity, will be developers of major systems, like AMD driver engineers, calmly talking with other big movers in the industry.

    I guess it’s one of the few sites that is dedicated to reporting on such things, but boy howdy is it an odd mix of spiteful users and developer networking.








  • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.nettoFediverse@lemmy.worldLemmy Active Users looking good
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    I feel like the local community aspect of small and medium sized instances is a pretty big plus of lemmy. I can click ‘local’ and get a nice view of what my particular community is doing at the moment, which happens to be things I’m interested in.

    Is it truly that off-putting to new users to pick a single category that interests them, then their language, then just pick one of the suggested instances at random? There’s even a ‘general’ category they can pick if they simply cannot decide on any other interest.

    Every other social media site I’ve signed up to, including reddit, has made me select from a list of interests before letting me use the site so they can populate my feed with related things, presumably to enhance engagement and stop me from growing disinterested too quickly.