I built a conversation pit in Minecraft because I wanted one so bad

Small minds nitpick over unimportant details. This is how ppl talk over text on the Internet since forever.

I think Lemmy is a good foothold for activitypub. Reddit has been going to shit for some time and their userbase is tech savvy enough to actually migrate to something like Lemmy in significant enough numbers for it to matter.

I can only hope it continues to grow like this

Yeah same I’ve been looking at a few different models because eventually I wanna build my own house out of cob and be self sufficient and all that. It’d be nice to have something that doesn’t take up a lot of space, can be relatively easily fixed, and gets good MPG

It wouldn’t be a computer otherwise

Thats correct- like many open source projects, it appears to have gone through one or more confusing name revisions. Nonetheless, the github page indicates that there’s been a push as recent as 3 months ago.

It’s kind of a relic of the past now since everyone uses a streaming service of some kind now but right at the end of physical media’s lifespan, Japan had some key advantages over the US specifically because it was legal to rent albums and I believe individual songs, just like a Blockbuster. Eventually they had the music purchasing equivalent of Redbox in the form of kiosks as well with the advent of recordable Net-MD minidiscs, which only really ever saw success in Japan.