Newbie here. My keyboard just completely crapped out (it’s been a long time coming). I have a wishlist of features that I was hoping to run by one of the techy communities to see if anyone could recommend a model, but none of the communities I’m seeing are geared toward those kinds of questions.
I can search communities, but if I don’t guess the correct title then I’m SOL… Is there a directory that doesn’t just list the communities, but actually categorizes them so I can more effectively find a hit?
Also is it worth posting in a ‘dead’ community? Unsure if a new post will have any visibility in places like /all if the post itself is in a community that no one frequents.
Learning the ropes here.
Thanks all!
If by less stupid you mean more smart than I’d suggest the stack exchanges
On the off chance one of your desired features is gamepad emulation - Wooting is the only one that has a full proper implementation of it via xinput emulation. Keychron has partial support and Razer has full support but in a different manner (don’t remember the specifics).
Why not just use Steam Input? Add game to Steam as non-Steam game and turn on Steam Input.
Yeah that’s basically what you do, but the keyboard’s firmware needs to report itself as a gamepad for it to work, Wooting offers xinput and HID modes, iirc Keychron only does xinput and then Razer I don’t remember. Unfortunately the next best thing was some smaller company that had very limited beta support for such modes, and no other company gives a shit at all.
Alternatively Steam Input would have to add support for keyboards&mice, but the suggestions on Steam forums has been unanswered since 2021, so I highly doubt it would happen any time soon.
Posting in a dead community will put the post on all, unlike Reddit. And anyone whose instance sees that community and does not have it blocked could see the post. But a heavily populated community is going to be better.
!pcmasterrace@lemmy.world may be a good place to try.
Not only that, but sorting by ‘New’ on Lemmy’s All is a viable strategy for finding worthwhile material, so I assume at least some people do (and I could stand to more often).
On Reddit, if you’re a real human person, you’re probably either doing that in a specific subreddit or, if you have nothing better to do, searching for a gold nugget in a pile of manure.
That kind of illustrates the struggle though: a bunch of hyper-specific results not suitable for general questions, or communities that have only seen a handful of posts, ever.
Per other posters though, that last bit doesn’t sounds like it’ll pose the issue I feared.
This highlights one of the main problems. Lemmy communities tend to be small or dead. With numbers like this, it’s hard to compete with Reddit.
Lemmy isn’t “competing” with Reddit. It isn’t trying to “earn market share”, or make a profit, or sell data, or train AI, or manipulate the public discourse. It’s user friendly, rather than antagonistic. As far as content: it builds slowly. If you have a niche interest that you’d like to see more of, then create or join a comm and make regular posts.
That’s true, and I totally agree. However, many people don’t see it that way. When someone leaves Reddit, they tend to look for a drop-in replacement.
What they find here is a smaller place with early Reddit vibes, which is good and bad at the same time. They would like to hang out in a niche community with thousands of like-minded users, but they’ll only find a community with a hundred users and two posts a month. Market share isn’t really an indicator of quality, but it does tell you something about the amount of activity.
Kind of. When people leave Reddit, it’s for a reason. They obviously aren’t looking for a Reddit clone, since it would include the reason they left in the first place. People that leave Reddit for Lemmy either stay and rebuild their communities here, or they suck it up and go back to Reddit. There is no magic solution to add millions of users to Lemmy overnight, and honestly the existing community (and probably software) couldn’t handle that. This is people-powered (volunteer and federated) social networking as opposed to venture capital, IPOs and data centers at scale. Participate and enjoy growing a better future :)
Go for the dead ones! I’m subscribed to things that haven’t had a post in forever, but I’ll still see it when someone eventually does!
you can always post in a larger community and then x-post to a dead community, too! (or vice versa)
Honestly just ask ai like i feel this is exactly a question today’s llms are designed to answer
Odds are Keychron has what you need.
…Or at least close enough.
“Close enough” will not do. Go further. DIY build!
Split space bar. Custom layers. Macros. Need around with Vial.
I’m partial to the Moonlander/ergodox
My wife just got this red dragon and she loves it.
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Ask lemmy specifically has a rule that it is not a support forum.
fair enough, I’ll just delete the suggestion 😅
