Glad I host my own instance so I get to choose what I get to see.

Agree to disagree on HL2.

HL1/Black Mesa also excellent though.

Oh. This makes sense.

Oh this is interesting. Yours is shortened too.

I host my own instance and it’s just me (because I’m so unlikable I can’t even get my 2 FRIENDS to join my instance. I digress)

I wonder if there’s some setting or ENV variable somewhere on the instance to change that.

As far as I can tell the full username is only hidden on the same instance. So for instance, I see your full user name, but I only see the shortname for mine.

To each their own! The story and design of HL2 still holds up for me, but at it’s core the mechanics are indeed FPS. If that’s a no-go, it’s unfortunate, but understandable.

If you haven’t played half life 2 you should stop what you’re doing right now and do that.

This. This shit right here man. I love it.

It takes a little getting used to but I’m liking it more and more. Even with it’s quirks.

Hmm weird. The server is supposed to notify me of a pending join request.

I’ll look at it tomorrow.

I don’t have it set to private because when I tried that before it seems to break federation entirely. I do however have to approve anyone who wants to join. At this point I’d probably allow my close friends to join if they wanted, but that’s about it.

Mostly because I am nearly 100% positive I will either lose my ZFS array, try to move the server to different hardware and bork psql, or what have you…

My homelab is mostly duck tape and bubblegum.

I think for philanthropy to even be a possibility your company needs to be profitable first. Reddit has never been profitable.

But I get your sentiment.

My instance current has… One.

I’m on the app right now and I find the jank kind of charming.

It’s part of the reason I chose to host my own rather than depend on another server somewhere. That way when I do fuck it up at least the only person to blame is me

Yay federation and activitypub!

That’s ok we have /c/linux now.

It really kind of is. Personally I’m still getting how communities work while self hosting, but it’s allllll coming together.