Yeah the more I look into it, I see that it takes direct inspiration from Total Annihilation and SupCom. I messaged my friends who used to play Forged Alliance with me and at least a couple of them have already played this game.

I’ve been waiting for over a decade for a new game in this mold. It’s not just an RTS, it’s a very specific kind of strategic RTS that has a much greater scale than a tactical RTS like Starcraft. I like that it’s more focused on macro than micro.

And the fact you can do 16 player matches is just epic. Supreme Commander was originally limited to 4v4 and then they eventually modded in the ability to play 6v6, but it would frequently cause the framerate to drop to slideshow levels. Can’t wait to try this game out!

Wow this actually looks amazing. Reminds me of Supreme Commander, I used to play Forged Alliance Forever back in the day. Good times.

I’ve heard they tend to harbor a lot of alt-right types. Possibly because users can’t really get banned. Is that true?

Ok thanks for the info. Fingers crossed 🤞

I remember hearing that Lemmy’s NLnet funding was going to run out soon.

Does this mean the Lemmy devs could potentially reapply for additional funding, or is this only for “new projects”?

You love to see it

Without spoiling anything:

He portrays the founder of BlackBerry and is obsessed with having physical keyboards on phones

Trust me, this is an exceptionally apt reference to BlackBerry (2023). Based on my lack of upvotes I assume not many people have seen it yet 😅

I’ve been trying to get this kind of Lemmy history since I got here. This is a great summary, I didn’t know about pretty much any of those details.

True, good catch

Yeah good points. I have never used Twitter so I missed the whole Mastodon exodus, and I don’t know much about Lemmy before the reddit migration.

But I’m just basing this on the MAU figure being around 1000 in March 2023 and still being around 1000 at the end of May 2023. Then starting in June there was a massive wave that pushed us to 70k at one point.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=120

I get that there were previous waves, and God damn if I’m not appreciative of everyone who was here before me and created the environment that convinced me that Lemmy was worthwhile. But at the end of the day, any previous waves are more like ripples when compared to the reddit exodus.

And hopefully we have at least one more wave in our future that will make this one look like a ripple.

That’s how growth works on social media, it comes in waves. We are basically in the first wave, because there were only a few thousand people here before June. Its going to take a while before we build up enough organic momentum to cause a second wave, unless reddit makes another oopsie; they could trigger another wave at any moment.

The curve is fine, what you’re seeing is the bleeding of alternate accounts. Many of us made 2 or more accounts on different instances early on, and many of those initial alts are now becoming inactive as people settle on their preferred servers. The rate of active user growth is slower than the rate of attrition right now, but that’s only because the rate of attrition is so high. That should stabilize in the coming weeks.

Look at threads, their activity declined like 70% after a week or two. Lemmy is actually retaining users at a much higher percentage than the average social media site, it’s just that we haven’t gotten enough people to give it a try yet.

Nice, that’s a pretty favorable article. I actually learned a few things from it, mostly about kbin. He really gets into a bunch of the features that Lemmy and Kbin have that reddit does not.

Did you post this on a discord within the last hour? Was it deleted or am I tripping? Saw this same screenshot on discord then it disappeared.

Hard to imagine that the clicks will make a difference, they have hundreds of millions of users. If we give them 1% more clicks and grow Lemmy by 100%, that’s a worthwhile trade-off.

You really think they want advertisements for “the new Reddit” all over their IPO showcase project?

Yeah that’s definitely better, they hadn’t come up with that yet when I posted this

This one looks promising. Just spam it everywhere like the amongus last time.

Just one? Rookie numbers

!guitarpedals@lemmy.world

This one I had to look up also.

Sub.rehab, lemmyverse.net, and browse.feddit.de are all very helpful tools for finding new communities.

The tough bit is to create a space big enough to create healthy information flow without being too big as to monopolize the neighborhood.

It’s much easier when the administrators of the space have altruistic rather than economic motivations. We just need to make sure that the number of nodes continues to grow organically along with the userbase, and we should be alright.