For me it’s between this masterpiece and Untitled Goose Game.

Anytime!

!gamedev@programming.dev

I think you did a great job distilling it. I can see many parallels with other communities I know too.

You just described the Esperanto community 😅

First thing I thought of when reading OP haha

Steven Seagull!!!

For a serious game I’d recommend UnCiv, imho the best adaptation of Civ to the mobile form, even counting official games. Very frequently updated.

For casual games, I like:

Lona: like Snake from old feature phones, but with circular motions. You’ll understand it when you see it. Familiar and fresh gameplay at the same time. Difficult to master and keep beating your highest scores. Very addictive.

Vector Pinball: as it says on the tin, just an honest to dog, simple pinball. Many tables to choose from.

I’m also addicted to Poland can into space, which is a stupid game with bad gameplay, but fun nevertheless. :)

This one is hard to explain to people from the 2020s

Oh, Jesus Christ!

A random deployment is certainly risky, but no riskier than a random apk. I’d argue the random deployment is less risky because it’s easier to inspect it in the browser and see what it’s doing with your password. But of course both are to avoid. Self-hosting or compiling your own clients if you can, official deployments or releases otherwise.

Sure. Both compiling your own apk or self-hosting are ideal. If you’re not doing either though, the web app is more easily inspectable.

Its less dumb than entering it into a regular app compiled into an apk, which is more opaque (even if it’s also FOSS). Voyager you can host it yourself.

Closed source ones.

Voyager (formerly wefwef) is a self-hostable web app, so it doesn’t have this problem. Of course this only means you can inspect the code you’re running. You still have to able to understand the code to be sure it’s not doing anything malicious.

That’s true. I mean, you have to consider beehaw is a bit unusual, most instances federate with all other non-extremist ones. The typical experience with Lemmy is being able to go to one spot, your instance, and pull content from all over. But yeah, defederation is always a risk the design allows for. The best we can do as users is try and pick an instance that seems unlikely to do that.

I don’t think the fediverse paradigm moves away from that, on the contrary. We still have a single landing point, our home instance. Except now it even pulls content from 3rd party servers all over the internet. If you were interested in reddit, hacker news and tildes, you’d have to check out each one separately, and use a separate app for each one. With lemmy, kbin, mastodon, pixelfed, etc, you can use one app and one account to follow all of them. We just have to work a lot on the UX of in-app discoverability, which really has a looong way to go.

They just shipped it minutes ago! Second release in less than 24h lol