Lemon8 is a social media app owned by Heliophilia Pte. Ltd., a Singaporean company connected to the Chinese internet company ByteDance. It was launched in 2020 and modeled after Xiaohongshu, which was released in 2013.

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The U.S. launch of Lemon8 coincided with scrutiny over ByteDance and TikTok’s operations in the country;

Correct, but I do want to mention that Bluesky did end up adding beta support for threaded (nested) replies but I’m unsure if it went further or has been abandoned.

#no

Meta stole that from us. People were using the term and it was gaining momentum until Meta’s “Threads” was announced.

Why can’t more of that be patched out via ReVanced or similar? Or is it so integral to the platform itself?

I’m bothered that the app is 2gb.

why?

lemmy/mbin

It’s easy to understate what an unusual project SteamOS is. It represents over a dozen years of work from some of the industry’s finest, is funded by a private company, yet is open source and free for everyone to use. “I’m pretty happy that we’ve managed to find a balance that’s beneficial to everyone, while still being able to help this PC ecosystem in this way,” says Griffais. “I’m really happy about that.”

I can’t wait to try it

Potentially, but only for a new Smash Bros. (same reason I got the Wii U and Switch)

Interesting, thanks.

There’s something neat about it being on newgrounds

And realistically they’re more likely to end up here

It doesn’t need to be all or nothing for them at first. If you share on it maybe they’ll share some thing there too slowly.

Right, but here for example, I’m not hosting anything myself. I’m participating courtesy of a generous guy with spare server resources.

Which allow users to connect with others via their own Friendica server,

Wouldn’t it be helpful to state that you can also sign up at an existing instance? Or is that less encouraged for friendica? I suppose being so personal that would make sense.

It’s in your profile settings. It should apply everywhere.

You explained it the best

That’s kinda what they’re all about.

Aw, did a pretty girl turn you down?

But where does the comic state or imply that living like this is healthy? The character doesn’t seem happy.

That’s simply not true. I agree that it seems to be social anxiety depicted but you misunderstand that phrase. That’s basically just saying it could be something else, nothing to do with likelihood.