As a CS dude who uses Linux and is around way too many people who seem like they genuinely are in need of some therapy on a daily basis, this entirely checks out, tbh.

I'm now mildly worried for my own mental state

Up until the API debacle, that was my solution too. Now even that doesn't work. It's so bizarrely hard to look something up on the internet now.

Yeah, it just doesn't really exist yet. I'm not sure a really well-moderated community for news content can exist yet on Lemmy, due to the culture that's slowly springing up, but if it did it'd have to be on a dedicated instance, I expect - one with a very, very dedicated set of moderators with relatively strict rules regarding what is sufficiently-well-sourced content, and all other communities on the instance being held up to the same bar in their specific niches in order to encourage that kind of posting culture.

Honestly, I don't think Reddit ever achieved a really good result either - the news subreddits were all dumpster fires to varying degrees - but Lemmy's immaturity worsens the issue here, I think. It's pretty appallingly obvious. I'd look elsewhere for news opinion aggregation, for the time being.

Same boat here, though a couple years later. It feels really weird to be so out of the loop with my "fellow" Gen Z siblings who were born in the late 00s.

Holy shit, I had no idea there was an Alundra rando now! That's fantastic news. I'll hafta do a few runs. It'll be nice to have a new way to experience the game after so long. Thanks!

Alundra. It's basically the PS1's own Zelda title, with a bit of Terranigma DNA mixed in. I played it as a kid and remember being blown away by the plot, and unlike a lot of other games I played back then, this one mostly held up when I replayed it as an adult.

Very much this. The atmosphere here doesn't feel any different than it did back on reddit, for better or worse. I feel like there was a time when reddit was less pessimistic, but there's been at least a little of that vibe for a long time.

Well, that will set a lovely precedent for other "free" democracies... the people are angry at you? Just take their voice! What could go wrong...