Hellebert

I see that it has 8 person voip.. but does it have an actual voice chat like Discord?

Performance and visuals are fine for me. Running on a 3080 fine.

This isn't the full list of changes for A21. There's a ton of new POIs, mechanics overhauls and more.

Yep, it's always a good time to jump into the game tbh because they refresh the game every so often.

I think it's important not to become overly attached to an identity on any social media platform, which is kinda the concept they're going for here. Your post history doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things for the most part and will still be there anyway unless that server shuts down (even then there's ways around that if you're really concerned).

Personally, I was already in the habit of creating a new Reddit account about once a year so that any previous baggage, things I'd revealed about myself and so forth didn't follow me for too long. Once I got over that big karma number go up dopamine hit I stopped caring at all for my previous identities. I say this as someone who has accounts on Reddit dating back to almost the very beginning.

You're using it right now without contributing to their cause.

Lemmy is an AGPL software. Forking would just put a ton more burden on yourself with no real benefit.

I'd only bother forking if the original devs stopped supporting it and/or there were features you wanted but they refused to implement. What those dev's political believes are matter very little at the end of the day and it's ok for people to have different opinions.

Does it have voice chat built in and is it as easy to use and accessible as Discord?

Last time I looked this was not the case. No point lecturing people until Matrix or a viable alternative catches up at least.

Domain names are cheap, like $25/year.

I initially felt the same way after a day or so of use, however once I got the app and figured out the clunkyness and rough edges it's really grown on me.

You're definitely right about discoverability but you're probably comparing this to Reddit that's had like 15 years to mature and sort it all out. Lemmy is made by like 2 developers for free and it's pretty impressive already what they've achieved.

I think if you give it more time and lower your expectations a little you'll appreciate it more. And you don't have to leave Reddit or whatever either, you can just use both and see what happens too.

Well that kinda aged poorly.

Discord is easily accessible text/image and voice chat that just works for the majority. If you want people to switch off it then you're going to need Matrix to catch up in basic features and accessibility at the very least.