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Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral? - Lemmy.World

Posts on Lemmy feel very ephemeral to me. It feels like so many posts end up deleted, and then unlike the obvious main alternative reddit, all of the comments, the history of those comments, their trees, and the discussions that were had along the way are gone too. You could want to recall what someone said a week later, if they for instance, linked to something interesting, or you found more information on a topic or you simply came back late to their response, and you get nothing. No idea what happened, no information about said post, and that’s it. It feels like this happens to a very far from insignificant amount of posts and it is just one part of why Lemmy feels so short-lived/temporary/ephemeral to me. Posts being removed means so much more, user profiles are difficult to navigate and unsearchable, there are no accumulated values publicly available, bans don’t have appeals, communities don’t have moderator chats, mod logs only semi work and can be circumvented (eliminating the point of having them), server up-time is a bit shaky, drama means things sometimes break with inter server communication and more. These all feel fixable, but it just feels like a large number of things conspire to make this experience feel temporary and kind of throwaway. I just thought, surely other people feel similarly so I pose this question to see what other people think about it. Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral to you?

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Credibly_Human Nov 3

To me, this seems like pretty much what they were expecting to do in the first place, and a classic case of pushing too far on purpose, just to back track to pretty much where they wanted to be. A plan that is a classic among big corporations.

I don’t think this is good enough, because it still would make future customers wary of buying their products, just to have support for new features dropped, in some cases, just days after they buy the product.

Some could argue that they don’t “owe” anyone that, but this is how the tech industry has worked for a while with its fast moving software pace. If NVidia, their only major rival, and even Intel, both continue to offer full fledged support for far longer than AMD, this continues to really dampen the reasons one would go for an AMD card.

Now AMD cards will have:

Shorter prioritized driver support
Less game support from devs (due to their lack of market share)
Fewer games covered by their game specific features (FSR4 Suite) than their main competitor (NVidia with DLSS and FG)
Trailing feature development (on average) when compared to their main rival NVidia

And users will be expected to accept this, all for a discount of typically just 50 dollars for GPUs of similar raw performance.

That seems like a very raw deal to me, and that is very unfortunate given the already greater than 90% market share NVidia commands in gaming and even higher market share in enterprise compute (AI included).

Credibly_Human Nov 3

AMD Backtracks Previous RDNA1 and RDNA2 Maintenance Mode Statements. 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to Continue Getting Individual Game Support.

https://lemmy.world/post/38259738

AMD Backtracks Previous RDNA1 and RDNA2 Maintenance Mode Statements. 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to Continue Getting Individual Game Support. - Lemmy.World

Link to official blog post (somehow still blames people for correctly understanding their first statements) [https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/continued-support-for-every-radeon-gamer.html] Of Note: * No dates were specified, No commitments made. * Day 1 game support was not promised, just individual game support. * They still plan on splitting the development for RDNA1 and RDNA2 from RDNA3 and RDNA4 development, giving only the latter support for new features.

Credibly_Human Nov 3

AMD Backtracks Previous RDNA1 and RDNA2 Maintenance Mode Statements. 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to Continue Getting Day 1 Game Support.

https://lemmy.world/post/38259734

AMD Backtracks Previous RDNA1 and RDNA2 Maintenance Mode Statements. 5000 and 6000 Series GPUs to Continue Getting Day 1 Game Support. - Lemmy.World

Link to official blog post (somehow still contains weasel words, blaming people for correctly understanding their first statements) [https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/continued-support-for-every-radeon-gamer.html]

Credibly_Human Oct 31

AMD ends day 1 game optimization support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 cards. RX 6000 and RX 5000 with GPUs produced as recently as right now losing support

https://lemmy.world/post/38136970

AMD ends day 1 game optimization support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 cards. RX 6000 and RX 5000 with GPUs produced as recently as right now losing support - Lemmy.World

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Credibly_Human Oct 31

AMD ends day 1 game optimization support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 cards. RX 6000 and RX 5000 with GPUs produced as recently as right now losing support

https://lemmy.world/post/38136969

AMD ends day 1 game optimization support for RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 cards. RX 6000 and RX 5000 with GPUs produced as recently as right now losing support - Lemmy.World

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Credibly_Human Oct 22

Games to Really Test my 5090 graphically without marketing dark patterns or microtransactions

https://lemmy.world/post/37721446

Games to Really Test my 5090 graphically without marketing dark patterns or microtransactions - Lemmy.World

I am looking for games that are visually impressive and make use of my 5090 so I can get more use out of it before it becomes second place (though I guess technically its second place to the RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell). I have already played Cyberpunk 2077, played the heck out of it, very fun, though it has some annoyances so on subsequent playthroughs mods removed those annoyances for me which was great. This game really had a lovely skill tree customization which let you have many different play styles and the free form missions were excellent for letting you complete them in all sorts of ways. I have also played Atomfall and just have the new DLC left to play through. Its not really that graphically challenging. It was an OK game. I have also played Split Fiction, which is probably the absolute most fun anyone can have with another person in video game form, especially if one is used to games and the other isnt, but in other cases as well. Very relaxing and high fun to down time ratio. Played both Robocop games as well. Ok, but not that graphically challenging. Sort of the big thing I want to avoid is MTXs and marketing dark patterns like FOMO and especially Monetary Dark Patterns. Basically things listed on this website [https://www.darkpattern.games/] are things I want to avoid For the record I play on a 4k 144hz monitor and prefer higher frame rates, like 100 ish for comfortable play without eye strain.