I love it!

I want one

I assume not. I started using minigalaxy recently since I heard about its latest release, and it does almost nothing and some of what it is supposed to do is bugged. (On my system it doesn’t create desktop menu items properly when asked to, so the faulty .desktop files it creates do nothing. I edit them manually to fix the wrong paths.)

Pros: It does download and install the games for you, and it does download and install DLC for you, making it easier to use than just the website. It lets you know what DLC you have and also if there are updates it figures it out and can install the updates.

Cons: Doesn’t seem to download incremental updates for games, but instead downloads the entire installer for every update. Not sure what the official client does, but this is possibly countless gigabytes of wasted bandwidth. As mentioned above it hardly does anything else, or does it wrong.

You might as well just use the website, since it does notify you when things get updated, and you’re going to download the installer anyway. Official GOG installer creates the right .desktop files as well.

What happens if I just browse “all” on my feed. Then I’ll see posts to subs on other servers when they come in, right?

I’m sorry to see people somewhere on the Internet coming out against Lemmy. First of all, let me say that I sympathize with the China issue. I’m a Muslim and I have been concerned about the Uyghurs for a very long time. This is not some bandwagon that I am jumping on, and I have ties to the region as well. I moderate the Uyghur sub on Reddit, created #uyghur on matrix.org, and on lemmy.ml I have registered communities like c/uyghur and c/xinjiang. I did that mainly to promote the welfare of Uyghurs and guard against whitewashing of the situation in Xinjiang. Obviously I am pro-Uyghur, and I feel that the admins of lemmy.ml have been gracious enough to respect me as a user and a mod. I have also not seen them engage in censorship of opposing viewpoints on this issue, and we have at least once that I can remember disagreed on China’s Uyghur policy here on the site. This did not result in any problem.

Please don’t cancel Lemmy, because the software is amazing and the creators really are nice. I don’t have to agree with them on politics in China. As long as they’re not crazy about it, the situation is manageable. So far they’ve always been fair.

Even suppose that one day they implement a policy on lemmy.ml that says they won’t allow anyone to post pro-Uyghur things. So what? It’s their Lemmy instance, they can decide what’s on it. I can go start my own instance. I really don’t think lemmy.ml has any obligation to do what the community wants. They’ve already done enough by creating the software and making it FOSS.

Besides, you know how many people posted pro-Uyghur content on c/uyghur since I created it? None. So if you’re concerned about how the issue is being represented on this site, maybe you could come post something sometime, or argue in the comments.

Anyway, at present I’m not recommending any other Reddit alternative and probably won’t.