Thanks for sharing about this, That’s really quite a cool and inspiring story to hear regarding the development of the platform and specifically the nature of the people and connections who made it possible. It might have been a bit of a risk but it seems unlikely that the platform would have scaled as well without outside help.
That’s a good point, There is a way to get WSA running on Windows 10 through a few third party tools although I don’t currently have access to documentation for that and I also ran into issues with configuring those repositories accordingly. Also I do feel like BlueStacks is quite bloated although Android Studio for virtualization and scrcpy for wirelessly controlling and viewing a phone works well for applications that aren’t games.
I agree, It reminds me a lot of what Mastodon instances I’ve seen were like shortly after Elon Musk bought Twitter with that being the main thing hooking me into the fediverse despite the fact that I’ve never used Twitter. Thankfully those communities did develop and mature over time although it took a while for people to move towards unique types of posts and conversations. I believe the same can apply here with Beehaw and Lemmy although we need to be the ones to help foster the change we want to see.
That seems quite exciting, I’m personally hoping to see a platform agnostic Lemmy application available for desktop operating systems as that would be a really nice and convenient way for users to interact.
I either select “All” or “Local” on occasion and don’t really pay attention to how those categories are filtered. The main challenge I see right now is that there is a lot of content not available or translated in English which leads me to blocking communities that otherwise have interesting and valuable discussion.
Plus there are challenges with figuring out how to find stuff that is new and insightful besides the regular defaults on the feed but perhaps part of that is simply because of not posting enough and being part of the experience.