The Faraway Paladin is my recommendation. It’s so far off the normal isekai path that it’s easy to forget it is one, and not a more traditional fantasy story.

And I feel like the Gamma scene worked better in the anime for me. Truly shows just how much she’s just relying on her ridiculous specs while still being awkward and uncoordinated.

I am not very familiar with the WN or the LN, but the industrial setting is the same in the manga, so I wonder if this is something the author decided worked better after the fact.

And just how bad Gamma is really comes across so much better when it’s animated. Probably the highlight of the episode for me.

This is a really solid list! The One Within the Villainess is the one I came here to recommend. I love villainess stories and this one really feels the most unique to me, though I’d say at least half of your recommendations are some of my favorites and the rest are ones I’ve been thinking of picking up, and now probably will.

I suspect it is mostly an issue on desktop, as I also can’t say I noticed any difference on mobile.

I know it’s going to feel like a platitude, but if you keep trying it will get better. Most of my twenties felt like a waste when I was in them, especially because I kept comparing myself to what I thought my path should be.

But now looking back in my 30’s it’s clear that I I spent most of the earlier part experimenting to figure out what I wanted and just generally surviving while doing that. I started my career, met my now wife, reconnected with friends that wanted to support my instead of keeping me where I was.

None of that would have happened if I didn’t keep pushing on, but it did often feel like I was treading water or even going backwards.

I didn’t get to see too much of it, mostly just Rome.

I think it’s an understandable desire/concern, especially as that’s how a lot of communities present themselves. But if you think it fits in both I think it’s worth cross posting!

I found everywhere I went in Italy had delicious food, as long as it wasn’t a chain, but I certainly could have been more lucky than anything else.

Yeah, it’s not something I really saw in small communities, but once things get to what I’d think of as medium sized it started to be a problem.

I’ve mostly just found that having downvotes ends up discouraging discussion (which is often the states reason for disabling them). With passive media that is already the normal state.

To expand on it a little more, I’m not sure why you really want to combine them. I get the idea of thinking of a single source of truth/gathering place, but that’s almost never actually been the case anywhere that I know of, and I think trying to force it will end up not actually serving the community well. I don’t think anyone will suffer for having multiple communities and most people are very okay with cross posting and realizing that articles and the like will be posted in multiple places if they’re interesting.

No, you can ask one of the communities to effectively shut down and migrate to the other, but I don’t think that is really worthwhile or needed.

Yeah, it took me a while to realize that broadcast content (things like YouTube) ca. benefit from downvotes (as it allows misinformation to be pushed down), it isn’t very useful in a discussion format.

https://beehaw.org/post/428209

It’s a week old and not super detailed, but it looks like they’re on Digital Ocean, but might be looking to move to a cheaper service. Based off of how I’ve seen the site struggle I don’t think they have any horizontal scaling.

For Jerboa, if it’s not on one of the instances it is set to open, it’ll default to your browser.

They’re working on expanding it past their default list, but to enable those long press on Jerboa > App Info > Open by default > toggle the enable button and turn on all the links.

Those instances will now open in Jerboa.

I think imgur and giphy are the way to go for now. I think I read that Lemmy is meant to be able to host them, but there’s a bug that is preventing it from working.

If Lemmy truly catches on we probably can’t totally prevent an Eternal September, but I do hope we go a long way to staving it off.

This has a lot to do with the size of the community, at least for me. Often on Reddit I would have no idea if you were ever going to stick around to make the effort to correct you worthwhile, or if you were just someone that likes to argue endlessly because that’s how you get your entertainment. It just because easier to punish and move on that to try and correct.

Yeah, I am enjoying Lemmy and Jerboa, but they are definitely not the most user intuitive.