Love me some old games.
Retrolemmy Admin
Retrofed Admin
Hi!
With all the tesseract drama going around, I thought I’d look into different frontend myself. And the only one that made immediate sense was mlmym - basically old reddit but for lemmy.
This is now available for everyone to use. And if you have any requests for other frontends let me know, and we’ll look in to it.
This is our 3 year anniversary! And without you guys this wouldn’t have happened. I’m glad we have all these passionate people all over the fediverse willing to post the most amazing retro content.
Thankfully it was another pretty quiet year for us as admins of this site. But this is business as usual for us by now, as our site usually doesn’t attract a lot of rowdy people.
This was the year that we launched our other retro inspired fedi-place called Retrofed, a PieFed based instance. This software has also proved to be great, and this is my preferred home for browsing myself (but, don’t worry, retrolemmy will remain to exist as long as we physically can). We have added topics and feeds there, that can make subscribing and/or following content much easier. Hopefully these feeds will also work on lemmy if and when lemmy 1.0 gets here.
I’m glad you people are here. It’s always amazing seeing a retrolemmy account in the wild, and it’s great seeing all the active communities and posts here too! Thanks for another fun year!
Cheers!
Hello!
I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.18.
If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)
The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.
If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.
Update thread with changelog here
Hello!
I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.17.
If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)
The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.
If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.
Update thread with changelog here
Hello!
I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.16.
If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)
The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes. Also I’ve worked on stability issues, and it should be more stable now.
If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.
Update thread with changelog here
In our 3rd year of lemmy, we have decided to also host a PieFed instance. This instance is fully set up, and compatible with lemmy communities. Also, this instance is also set up with http included for old hardware. Meaning you can finally procrastinate on the fediverse on your old hardware!
What is PieFed?
PieFed is a Lemmy/Mbin alternative written in Python with Flask. It is a younger software compared to lemmy, but the development goes blazingly fast (comparatively). And new features are added and improved often.
Why host another? We already have lemmy.
Lemmy is amazing software, but might not be everybody’s favorite. We’d like to provide a little bit of choice, and piefed seemed an interesting alternative.
Is this the end of RetroLemmy?
No. RetroLemmy will remain functional and updated for the foreseeable future. If this changes in the future, we will let you know beforehand. Just know that we have no intention to scrap this instance.
What does piefed do that lemmy don’t?
Flair
Catagories and Topics
Feeds (like the Retrolemmy feed, in case you’ll miss the local feed of retrolemmy)
Community wikis
Consolidated Comments (View all comments from multiple related posts on one page)
And more. Full list of features here.
Will the communities move?
No. All communities are all still available and usable through RetroFed, so the communities can stay on lemmy.
If you have any other questions, you can reply here, or dm me or @Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com directly.
Hello!
I updated the retrolemmy server to 0.19.15.
If you have trouble logging in, clear your cookies. If it doesn’t show up, force a refresh (with ctrl+F5 on PC)
The update went on without many problems, and only took a few minutes.
If you have any problems or questions, send me a message or reply to this thread.
Update thread with changelog here
In case of emergency or downtime, I will try to give updates through mastodon. You can follow me @DosDude@mastodon.social
You can also message me there if you notice the site is down and I haven’t posted an update yet.
The recent downtime has put it to my attention that users might want to get updates if the site is down. I completely understand, and agree. I don’t intend to use this account much, so don’t expect the usual microblog nonsense from this account.
Thanks!
There is currently a big influx of new users. Most, if not all, being reddit refugees.
I want to welcome you all to the fediverse, lemmy and retrolemmy specifically. If you need help starting out you can either try !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca or you can comment here, post in this community or message me or @Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com directly. We are here to help.
Usernames are usually written out as @DosDude@retrolemmy.com. The @ in front indicates a user. It looks like an e-mail adress by design, Because there can be users with the same name on different instances. For example: @dosdude@feddit.nl
Communities are usually written out as !general@retrolemmy.com . The exclamation point indicates a community. This also looks like an e-mail address because there can also be communities with the same name on different instances.
Sometimes new communities will not load. This usually means that the community is not yet federated. You can either manually add it to lemmy-federate or you can subscribe. That way the community is federated and posts will show up. If you make a new community it is always good practice to add it to Lemmy federate. To make sure it’s federated to all participating instances and maximize your user spread.
Here is a good FAQ via Lemm.ee.
https://lemmyverse.net/ - A website dedicated to finding new communities. Be sure to set your home instance using the domain name: for example: “retrolemmy.com”. This is to make sure that if you click a community, it automatically links it through your instance.
https://lemmy-federate.com/ - a website to post communities so that servers’ bots automatically subscribe to it, and it will show up in /all on all participating instances.
!newcommunities@lemmy.world - a community dedicated to promoting new communities.
!newcommunities@discuss.online - same as above.
!newcommunities@yiffit.net - same as above.
!lemmyapps@lemmy.world - lemmy apps community
There are loads of apps for your phone on the stores. Many of them were refitted from reddit apps to Lemmy.
Here’s a big megathread with all kinds of apps via lemmy.world
Or you can go to https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/ to find one not in the megathread
We hope you have a good time here!
Fun fact: Settlers 2 on MsDOS was one of the few, and maybe even only game on PC to have dual mouse support for local multi-player.