I'll be really curious to see the next few months of the Steam Hardware Surveys to see if Linux usage goes up a bit. Can we hit 3% this year? September already ended at 2.68% (+0.04%)
when I subscribe to a community it is first shown as "pending" and only a few minutes later as "joined" - why? What is it waiting for?
It's synchronizing across servers. First it needs to ensure the remote server has your user object, then it tells the remote server to mark your user as subscribed to that community. And these aren't immediate API calls, they're queued up. Sometimes the message queue between servers has some other messages before yours so it may take longer than expected.
I was gonna say Monkey Island but that's actually 1990. SimyCity was 1989, I'm not sure if that's worth playing these days compared to SimCity 2000 or something. Mario 2 (US) and 3 are probably still good.
I think it's kinda good, we just need to get used to it. I mean lots of platforms have public votes/reactions, even Facebook shows who liked/reacted on posts.
I think upvoting would be allowed even if you are not a subscriber. Only downvoting would be limited in that way. And yes you could get around it, but small obstacles are surprisingly effective because people are lazy (ever try to get someone to switch to the Fediverse? Lol)
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein a game program, the game program causing a processor of an information processing apparatus to execute
Lemmy will fulfill the search requests on behalf of other servers so that normally works, but it seems PieFed does not do that so it's a bit more strict
That does work! What about if it's a remote community? Does it just use the post ID number to determine what instance it's actually from?