Wait, what? A user posts a thing to a server, and that thing isn’t then duplicated to 50 other servers … yeah, I don’t see how that can work.

(I’m just kidding - your site looks neat.)

Yeah it was pretty nifty in lots of ways. Loads of emulators, of course, and doing stuff like compiling apps directly on the device itself was neat.

Frustrating in lots of other ways too, though. I don’t think the Pyra ever really got off the ground, unfortunately.

This was always an impressive emulator - it was originally made for the Open Pandora (an ARM-based mini-computer not much bigger than a DS). It’s always been free for that - it’s just, you know, you’d have to own an Open Pandora (I do!)

Informing a human that their work has already been done for them by a bot is oddly appropriate for this post.

He’s not, no. I doubt he’s heard of it, tbh. But your comment will have gone to him (it’s visible on Mastodon here), so maybe he’ll investigate.

His post has appeared on Lemmy, still attributed to him, through the machinations of this particular Community.

Top Tip (I’ve just discovered for myself): if you using a front-end (like Photon or Alexandrite) or a mobile app (like Voyager) that supports a ‘Cards’ view, it works well for this community. It means you can ignore the title I’ve often had to come up with, and focus on the content from the original author, and looks quite similar to how it did on Mastodon.

For me, being stuck at ‘Subscribe Pending’ does seem to happen for KBIN mags, but it isn’t exclusive to them. Whenever it happens, it does the mad thing of bringing everything though up to the point I tried to subscribe, but nothing after.

To fix it, you can often - but not always - go to the source Mag or Community, and find a semi-recent post from after you subscribed, and copy the absolute link (e.g. https://kbin.social/m/science/t/383186/Visualizing-the-mysterious-dance-Quantum-entanglement-of-photons-captured-in), then go to your instance and post that in the Search field. And then the change the thing your searching for from ‘Communities’ to ‘Posts’, and then wait a bit, and then click the link if it shows up.

This tends to force through the change past ‘Pending’, and from then things will start turning up.

The data could be better if I used the API or added the information from lemmyverse.net on the total subscriber counts but I spent a lot of time on this as is and don’t know how to use the API.

Your approach may have ended up being for the best. lemmyverse.net can’t index lemmy.world (broken DB => broken API => “well, we didn’t want to be part of the fediverse anyway”), and if you’d tried to use their API yourself, it might have totalled your project the same way it did for lemmyverse.

https://citizensgaming.com/ - for fans of the Star Citizen MMO

https://hobbit.world/ - for fans of Tolkien

Although it can feel like “A link aggregator for people reluctant to click on external links”