Unfortunately, I think this is where Reddit, and even Discord, still win. Especially if the game's population is small to begin with.

For example, with XDefiant, a new arcade first person shooter, which actually just wrapped up a test, the XDefiant Subreddit (r/XDefiant) itself is pretty small to begin with, so no way would an XDefiant community thrive on Lemmy.

Is this why there's still a ton of slowness on Lemmy despite the slowness said to be resolved? Because I still can't efficiently use Lemmy, if I'm being honest.

Also, has the Top Day sorting become broken? A community will show as blank for me now when I sort by Top Day.

I just hope the vision isn't being changed to accomodate the tech nerds given how much backlash David said he got. People can be so cruel, even when you're trying to do good. Fuck these people, whoever they are!

I have a feeling they're cracking down on personal subreddits due to their own loophole in the upcoming change to NSFW content. If I interpreted everything correctly, Mods still get to see the full range of NSFW content, whereas regular Reddit users are restricted.

In any case, I find it ironic that they talk about the duty of being a Moderator with such importance, and yet Mods aren't even paid, AND... it's quite a common thing that many subs have wildly corrupt Mods. I've no joke been PERMANENTLY banned from certain subs for criticizing a movie, a recent episode in a TV show, etc, and I wasn't even a member of the sub for more than 24 hours.

I've been trying to get into RSS even before Reddit went to shit, however the problem with RSS, or at least for me, is that I'm genuinely struggling to see ONLY the things that I WANT to see. With Apple for example, I ONLY want to be notified of new iOS updates, but every feed that I can find pushes out articles for everything Apple related, which is not what I want.

Have any recommendations for apps that allow tags and/or filters? I'd rather not be notified of every post on a subreddit but rather posts based around keywords, if that's possible.

I seem to be on an IP watchlist for Reddit now lmao. Any new account gets instantly banned now. I'll get the first message welcoming me to Reddit, and then immediately after I get the permanently suspended message. And this all started just from my support of the Blackout and saying subs should absolutely go private indefinitely. So yeah, suffice to say Reddit is a dump.

And in all honesty I was already slowly distancing myself from Reddit before shit popped off. The internet is simply noise. There are things that I like to keep updated with, but a lot of it is just noise. Discussions are more like arguments nowadays, so what do I even gain from publicly making a comment on a topic? Nobody gives a fuck whether or not I’m going to play that new video game, watch that new movie, etc., and the feeling is mutual because I know I don’t give a shit about what people do either.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Quick question about RSS though: is there any apps that can filter by keywords? So like, only send me notifications when it picks up something that matches the words that I want. Like, if I follow r/Apple for example, I'd want to be notified of new iOS updates.

I don't want to be on Reddit anymore, but the slowness on Lemmy was stopping me from fully committing.

Biggest crush on her back in the The Nanny days.

I like cereal! (btw, you're old as fuck if you get this reference)