PurpleTentacle

He certainly feels like the couch-fucking type.

Bob

Another vote for the untitled goose game. My kids loved that one at just about any age.

Steam ... Deck? You mean the Balatro machine, right?

Do not taunt Superhappyfunland!

No, it doesn't. Not even the old ones, because Brother is rolling out malicious firmware updates even to older models:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

If you have one of the remaining good Brother printers, make sure firmware updates are disabled.

Here he is introducing (and inadvertently humiliating) his friend Elon, who he shares a shocking amount of awful views with:

https://youtu.be/BdBga225HBk

I'm able to see any news that would be relevant as quickly as any other social media,

That's not what I use Reddit for and that's sadly the only Reddit (and other social media) thing today, that Lemmy mimics successfully.

I'm using Reddit mostly for the niche and special interest communities. For specific tech advice and troubleshooting. For all the stuff that once used to be home on newsgroups and bulletin boards and can now only be found in subreddits and, even worse, Discord communities.

And a lot of these smaller tech communities were super motivated to move to Lemmy, but Lemmy's complete inability to surface anything but the most popular posts in the most popular communities (there's still no equivalent for multireddits and there was no weighted popularity until 0.19) rapidly killed and suffocated virtually all of them.

That's the reason why you can type "obscure technical problem Reddit" into Google and almost always get a relevant answer, while that will likely never be the case for Lemmy.

I can discuss things in communities that feel welcoming to me as a queer socialist that I could hardly find on Reddit.

I'm not saying Lemmy doesn't have good communities, it certainly does, but once you go beyond news, politics and memes there's neither enough content nor enough users to keep anything else alive.

an x64 laptop that can run anything

That used to be true, but simply is no longer the case. Commercial streaming services are heavily restricting how and what you can output on your x64 PC.
You're not only getting far better platform and format compatibility on your cheap Google TV or Fire TV stick, you're also getting the far better apps and overall user experience.

That's also nothing stopping you from installing Firefox on these devices or pairing a mouse with them, if you desperately need "browser plugins" and an less sofa compatible input device for whatever you're doing in your living room.

They did give a reason though:

"Our overall goal is to provide a safe space to disenfranchised persons."

That goal is fundamentally incompatible with an open medium where they don't have full control over every participant. That's why they have already defederated from any large instance that allowed open registrations months ago and have only continued to cut ties rather than to mend them.

BeeHaw's definition of "nice" isn't your or my definition of "nice". It allows no dissent or opposing views on most subjects and more so, it doesn't even allow for its members to be exposed to different ideas, however briefly.

They are trying to build the perfect echo chamber, free from anyone not "nice". You simply cannot build such a chamber if you don't have full control over every aspect of it.

BeeHaw's entire concept would have been far more suitable for an old bulletin board style forum, the kind that is all but extinct today, but not for an open (in every sense if the word) platform.

I'm writing this as someone whose views actually align pretty well with those of BeeHaw's - with the exception of their heavy handed approach to anything and anyone not fully aligned with them.

Their stated goal simply isn't achievable outside of a sealed environment, so, no, Lemmy probably isn't for them. They should look into phpBB and co.

Lemmy is very much a viable alternative

Oh, how I wish that were true. Alas, stats keep showing that Lemmy is not continuing to grow, on the contrary. There is close to zero activity in anything but the most main stream communities and Lemmy is only now making very, very slow and tentative steps to actually surface more niche communities after effectively burying and suffocating them in every release up to and including the current stable.