I am far more interactive on here. I was almost exclusively a lurker on Reddit.

I think I have like 5 Lemmy apps installed, including the voyager web app, but I keep coming back to Memmy.

You aren’t kidding. I got four tiny spearmint plants this spring. They are growing kind of hydroponically because I have a pond.

In less than three months, those plants have exploded into huge nice-smelling bushes that are more than two feet in each dimension. They are planted in a line so there’s this walk of mint that’s almost 12 feet long.

But that’s not enough. The plants send out branches along the ground like freaking tentacles. They will spill out of a planter box, for instance.

The fast growth is why I chose this plant, but damn!

That sounds great! I will be following the app’s progress for sure.

By the way, the other thing that stood out was not being able to tap on an image and view just that image full screen. Being able to do that leads to things like zooming in on the image, or long pressing to copy/share it.

You also included features I didn’t even know I wanted, like the privacy option to hide your username. You’re doing good work, my friend. o7

Trying Mlem for the first time, the only thing that bothers me is that it shows total post scores and not individual numbers for up/down votes. I like seeing when something is controversial vs ignored.

Once I tried Memmy, I stopped paying attention to new apps.

I might have to try one or two mentioned here, though.

We are using the better version right now to discuss ways to [not] shoehorn the worse version back into our lives, lol.

Install Linux Mint in a virtualbox VM. It gets up and running so quickly, and works extremely well.

I have been focusing more on learning Linux at work, between some Fedora VMs we use for various things, and the Mint VM I spun up myself. It’s great because jumping between windows and Linux is a simple matter of moving the mouse cursor to a different monitor. I usually just leave Linux Mint running full screen on one of my monitors.

I’m not experienced with lots of distros, but Mint is damned impressive.

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This place is at a magical point in its growth where it has enough people to fully replace that other site for me (but higher quality), but it’s also still new and exciting and worth contributing to help it succeed.