I don’t mind games being expensive like this if they’re new, have huge development budgets, and endless replay value. GTA VI, assuming it doesn’t disappoint on launch, will 100% meet all three of these points checked.

What I do mind are the endless microtransactions after paying nearly a hundred dollars for the fucking base game. Even then, that would be understandable if it was limited to cosmetics, but instead those transactions get you access to vehicles that, while fun to you, just ruin the experience for everyone else.

I mean, PieFed exists as alternative software that has a very similar feel to the one Lemmy has.

Could also go for making the instance one based on Mbin, though the layout change might be a bit of an adjustment for people.

Honestly for all the flaws it has that the developers are still working on, I would much rather give my time and money into supporting PieFed.

At least the devs there are expressly against the kind of rhetoric Nutomic and Dessalines regularly involve themselves in.

Yeesh, does the link description always include the entire sidebar?

The firmware explicitly states it’s for photos only, and I tried my luck using both mp4 and webm formats.

I think you’re misunderstanding, the TV’s firmware literally states that it can only be used for photos. I tried accessing both webm and mp4 to try my luck, but nothing.

Oh! Is Roku something you can get separately? I always thought it was just a built-in OS on newer TVs.

Immediate thought that comes to mind is that you can follow the Lemmy and Pixelfed accounts from your Mastodon, which would give you some ease in accessing their posts via Mastodon, and then boost the posts from there.

Hope that helps a bit, tbf cross-platform interactions like this are something I have very limited experience with.

Not entirely. While you can interact with content from other social platforms like Mastodon and PeerTube from Lemmy, federation is best experienced when you utilize platforms with similar use cases.

For example, the link aggregators (Reddit-likes) on the fediverse are Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin, and until recently, Lotide. Each of these platforms have similar looks and purpose with slight differentiation. While you can communicate with video streaming or microblogging like PeerTube and Mastodon respectively, it’s best to stay within the link aggregators and make a new account for those purposes.

To give an example with microblogging on the Fediverse, there’s also a number of options. Biggest one is Mastodon, but others include Misskey and it’s endless forks, Smithereen, Pleroma/Akkoma, Mitra, Threads, etc. all with their own interesting quirks. While they can interact with Lemmy and whatnot, their best interactions are going to be with similar-purposed platforms.

Will do! I’ll look at the smaller communities when I can. Mouse is borked at the moment, so using the Raccoon app on mobile and NumLock keys on the desktop to get around for the time being.