That is pretty awesome. I didn’t realize you could run battle.net on Linux. Last time I looked into this though was right before D2:R came out and was trying to get it working on Pop!_OS. Can’t remember much, but I do remember not really being able to get it to work.
Glad to see that things have progressed. I don’t own a steam deck, but I’m definitely filing this away as something that is possible to do. However, I’m really enjoying D4 on my xbox. :)
I like it so far. It is pretty convoluted how you subscribe to communities across instances. I figured it out eventually, but I am seeing the question pop up all over the place across lemmy.
People say using the Android app makes that easier, but it needs to be solved in the webapp first and foremost.
I also have major concerns about scalability. Folks are calling out for the community to grow, but the servers are already struggling. Lemmy is built ontop of Rust which is an incredibly performant language. Lemmy.world also just migrated to a new, more beefy server. Why are there still scaling issues? I’m naive to the inner-workings of Lemmy, and I’m not saying this in a negative way, I just don’t know enough about the architecture. I am a software engineer though and know a lot of infrastructure and scaling, so these are the types of questions that pop into my head when I see my posts hanging infinitely (but are there on refresh.) Am curious to also know what the long-term storage requirements are for a Lemmy instance. If I were to self-host my own instance for example, what do I expect to need at the 1 month mark? 6 month mark? In terms of storage requirements. How big does the postgres db get?
Overall I am liking the new system and am bullish on Lemmy’s future. As with any sort of hyper growth, there are pains and I’m sure it’ll all get sorted with time. Nothing like a good forcing function such as a reddit exodus to show a light on any weak spots :)
Looking at the data collection categories in the ios app store for Threads is terrifying. Similarly, mastodon collects nothing. General population doesn’t seem to care though given the number of signups that Threads has received in the last few days. People are happy to give their information away.