Lemmy is turning into a left-wing echo chamber. The mods have declared that right-leaning opinions are not welcome and are defederating from any right-leaning instances. If you declare that half the population is not welcome, you're really limiting your reach. It's also going to be a pain to have two logins, one for lemmy.world and one for the free speech instances.

Yeah, it's nice. I've had it 2 years now. It's sturdy, hasn't broken yet. I'm not ferlimg the need to upgrade yet. If I was buying new, I'd get something newer. I was considering a GPD Win Mini, but $1000 is a lot and GPD has so many QA issues,

I have an RG351MP.

Every handheld made in the past few years plays GB/GBC/GBA at 100%.

No. It just leads to people gaming the system. I also think that counting upvotes but not downvotes is also a good idea, when ranking which posts show first. Too many people use downvote for "I disagree", which means a true idea with less than 50% popularity gets buried.

I haven't used daijisho. I think daijisho is just a frontend that calls Retroarch, so you're using Retroarch either way.

A site like Reddit could be run on a skeleton crew of 20-50 people. That's what Elon Musk is trying to do somewhat with Twitter, slashing unnecessary employees.

Look at it from the viewpoint of an executive. "I managed a 5 person team." makes you sound like a loser. "I managed a 100 person division" makes you sound like a Big Important Person, even if 95 of those jobs were unnecessary.

Also look at it from the viewpoint of investors. If an investor puts $200M into Reddit, they want Reddit to be spending $100M-$200M on growth. No investor would put $200M into reddit if reddit was going to just run a barebones operation spending $20M per year and then coasting for 10 years off the investment money.

Simplest is Retroarch or Daijisho.

If you really want to get fancy, consider getting one of the cheap handhelds with build-in game controllers, like an Anbernic RG353 or Retroid Pocket.

Switching to Discord is pointless. That's switching from a website controlled by one evil corporation to one controlled by a different evil corporation. Discord is still in hyper-growth mode, so they aren't going to be adding user-hostile features for awhile. Tilde has the same problem.

The webapp is good enough for me.