WhipperSnapper

My friend group uses google the same way apple users use imessage. The implementation has changed many times over the years (google chat, sms integration, hangouts chat, whatever), but it's always basically been the same thing and it's usable from any device. That's my main complaint about ~~signal ~~ and telegram: if I'm at home, forget using my stupid tiny phone, lemme do it from my PC that I'm probably on anyway.

edit: tried to strike out signal, but it's ignoring the formatting I guess.

As an American, the first half is in line with my experience. As far as group chats, we all use google for that.

Thanks a bunch!

Vivecraft mod for Minecraft

Can't overstate how great it is if you're into Minecraft. Stepping into the world gives such a difference sense of scale to things.

It's worth keeping track of the universal unreal vr mod in development. I realize this post says "yet", and this is still in development, but they've mentioned a release this year and it should open up a ton of great games.

This is intriguing. Are we talking about 3D youtube vids here?

Man, I haven't played through Myst since... the original Myst. I heard that Firmament was a bit of a letdown, but I really should go back and play Myst in VR. Thanks for the reminder!

You can, and I'm doing that right now. Logged into lemmy.ml through their site. However, I can see how one might be hesitant to log in through a 3rd party like this. It does look really nice, but I do wish it had a light mode as well.

This seems to be a pretty popular thought, both in this thread and many others discussing Lemmy. I'd put real money down that the 3rd party apps will get this going, but for actually using the website on a PC, I'm imagining it'd be up to the devs/admins of whatever Lemmy instance you're using.

While I agree with what you're saying in terms of seeing posts, the flip side is wanting to make a post visible to as many users are possible gets tougher.

Say I have a problem with my MicroSonySonic MPZoomPod that's driving me crazy to figure out, so I figure I'll post on Lemmy about it and see if anyone else has had that problem and a solution. In the reddit days, I just go to /r/MPZOOMPOD, or I google for "reddit mpzoompod" and find the subreddit. I can now post there knowing I'm hitting the entire community of mpzoompod users, or at least the majority of them. To do that on Lemmy, though, I now have to wonder if instead of a single community with 120k users, I have 12 communities with 10k users. So either I post to a tiny fraction of the communty, and thus have a much lower chance of getting my question answered, or I post the same thing to 12 different communites and have 12 different threads to keep track of for replies.

Obviously this is simplified, cause more likely there will be on big community somewhere, a couple other smaller versions, and then probably a couple completely devoid of posts from when people were first migrating to Lemmy and were excited to start communities.

Anyway, that was kind of a lot, but I think it really comes down to the subject matter. I don't need 5 versions of showerthoughts, and I don't care if showerthoughts has 1k subscribers or 1m subscribers, but if I really wanted showerthoughts to grow in popularity, the more people using one copy the better. Alternatively,it would be rad if /c/googlepixel or whatever wasn't fragmented so I could know I was looking at the most likely source of information.

It's all kind of an interesting thing to think about, and I can't decide just yet which way I'd personally prefer. I remember reddit before all the digg people piled in, and I liked how it felt more like a community back then, but I also can't disregard how incredible reddit has been in recent times for finding answers to specific questions, or getting news, or finding fans of a particular subject just because it became the default website to look for that stuff.

I use it whenever I'm typing with one hand only. It works very well IMO, on gboard at least.

Man, when I was getting into photography, that site was the holy grail of hardware decisions. It'd be a big loss if it went away, so this is great to hear.