That might have been true for some subreddits, but not all.

I’ve had people reply on pretty obscure subreddits years ago, on posts that were years old.

Awww man…I mean its kind of a good idea, but on reddit I’ve had people reply to 10 year old posts.

Its a weirdly nice feeling.

But I do think we’re in a data hoarding mentality and wish to preserve everything. I think it is important to let things go.

Edit: Though on the flipside, I do appreciate especially on technical posts, to go back and look up people’s answers/solutions to questions I have.

Even if the answer is no longer valid, perhaps the person who provided the answer can offer an alternate solution.

Thanks for the suggestion.

That is down, as is old.slrpnk.net, I’ll give old.lemmy.zip a shot and see what happens to it

Has it been working for you? It’s been down for me all weekend

Why would they do that? I’m unaware of internal issues in Lemmy at this point?

Yeah, as someone who is struggling to understand the concept of federation…this doesn’t help me at all.

I guess what its saying, if you’re on lemmy.world, you can’t access content on lemmy.zip?

Thank you; thats a much better solution than mine.

And keyboard works fine if you need it also

Can you explain what you mean by added a quick exception?

I have the same problem on the same game due to the same hardware.

I came up with a bulky solution, which is to launch a script that disconnects my keyboard for a bit; just to allow enough time to launch DS2. Then it reconnects the keyboard so normal function is resumed

Can you expand on your solutions so I can see if its better?

If anyone is interested in my super basic scripts, let me know and I’ll share them.

No I totally understand the benefit of decentralization; however on the user end, I just want to consume content.

To that end, can I post on one knitting instance and that’ll reach all knitting communities on Lemmy? How do I get the most engagement, which instance is the most popular

(and by the way, knitting was a random example on my end, but I am surprised that there aren’t any active instances to what I would assume, is a fairly popular hobby).

So tangentially to the post, I guess the implied question is: when will Lemmy see another explosion in its userbase.

And to that…I don’t know.

I’ve been trying to get away from reddit for a while and the problem with Lemmy is two fold

1. Very minor: it requires me to unblock cloudflare when I’m using noscript

2. More major, I still don’t have an intuitive understanding of how lemmy works. On reddit if I was interested in knitting, going to old.reddit.com/r/knitting would be a good starting point.

I’m still confused about multiple instances, why bifurcate the community (are there multiple instances of knitting communities on lemmy?).

I (perhaps foolishly) consider myself slightly above average in terms of tech literacy; if I’m this confuse I do wonder how are others going to fare.