It wasn’t the fact that there was a limit to see 1000 comments but what they were. The vast majority of my 12 years on Reddit I spent talking about dungeon and dragons 5th edition (DnD 5e) which I started playing early in is lifestyle. It was my first role playing game and I got sucked into the Internet to learn more. Before my first game I found dndnext where I could learn about the current edition. I spent hours and at least 1000 comments talking about playtests, new books, character concepts, rules, adventures and eventually the new onednd playtest.

If you aren’t familiar with DnD you might be unfamiliar with their owner wizards of the coast (WoTC) which is part of Hasbro. WoTC has been awful this year, trying to rescind their open licence agreement which allows 3rd parties to operate. They broke their workers union with the Pinkertons and their are rumors their new edition will be digital only. I stopped even caring about the new playtests and completely disengaged with learning anything new.

So I was deleting comments on the old forum that provided me so much entertainment about the old game that I used to love. Both ruined in the same year but overwhelming greed. If that isn’t the most millennial late stage capitalism experience I don’t know what is.

  • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hi from Lemmy! I hadn’t been able to federate here before and my comments weren’t showing up but now it’s working.

    I didn’t know about all that WOTC was doing to DnD but I am familiar with them because I used to play Heroscape. That’s absolutely fucked and you have my sympathy.

    The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

    • apemint@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      The good news is that we are on the verge of building something that we own on Lemmy, where corporations won’t be able to fuck with us as much.

      Yeah, about that…
      Let’s see what happens when Meta decides to federate Threads with the rest of us.

      I really hope you’re right because I love this place right now. It’s much smaller than other platforms but there’s enough content for hours of browsing and the community is leagues above the rest of the internet in terms of quality of discourse.

      Outside of the fedi, I don’t remember the last time I saw opposing views coexist in the same thread without one being brigaded.

      • imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        1 year ago

        Meta doesn’t get to decide. We do. That’s what I love so much about Lemmy.

        The day this instance federates with Meta is the day I leave. They, and any other big corporations, can fuck all the way off. We have seen where that path leads time and time again.

        https://sh.itjust.works/comment/714654

        The userbase is everything and we have the people we need. Everything else will eventually coalesce around that.