Happy first birthday to all the lemmy.zip users!

It truly was an eventful year on our little corner of the internet, and I’m so happy I was able to witness it. I truly love our little instance and just wanted to thank the amazing admins and also every member of .zip for being part of this incredible community! ❤️

Happy birthday everyone!

It should have never happened. Gradual Schengen entry like this is for new members, not countries who have been meeting the criteria for 12 years.

The fact that countries like Austria can block others’ accession on blatant lies is beyond messed up.

Meanwhile, the Kilometers-long lines of trucks are still at the border, sometimes spending days there. The only things that changed are the two minutes you save at the airport and the politicians bragging how they “got us in Schengen”.

That was a shameful decision and a disgrace. The EU needs major reforms so countries like this can’t abuse their power or try to blackmail others, using Schengen.

Nope, this “membership” is only for air and water travel. There are still border checks on land. A great victory, as the politicians said, indeed.

Yes. And some things I forgot to mention about the tower:

Baldwin’s tower, in Tsarevets, Veliko Turnovo, was restored by model of this tower.

And, apparently, the tower appeared in S5E10 of Game of thrones. source (in bulgarian)

Here’s the fortress’ plan.

Cherven fortress, by Vasil Goranov

Went with Dream of Dawn

The site has all current clients so I’d recommend checking it. As for me, I use Element X. It’s not bad, the only annoying thing is that it’s always asking me to turn on chat backup but when I do it encounters an error. But besides this, it’s alright, it does everything I need it to do.

The most popular such alternative is Matrix.

I decided to finally pick up Helldivers and I couldn’t be happier with it. The missions are entertaining and the community is great! The game is just… fun! There are still some bugs, like when I got stuck in the door of the extraction ship and died to a fire tornado lol, but those are rare, most times being just visual.

I don’t feel like it’s necessary. The technology community is more than enough for Reddit and everything also related to technology, making a separate comm just for Reddit feels a little excessive. As for blocking, most apps have keyword blocks so people can already view the community without the Reddit-related stuff.

Everyone is saying Voyager and Arctic, and rightfully so, they are amazing apps. But I just wanted to say Mlem has also become really great.

That’s amazing! I imagine how grand it must have looked when it was still standing.

I haven’t gone fishing in a long time but from my experience it’s really peaceful. As another commenter said, kind of like meditation. Also, catching the fish feels really rewarding.

Most people just love the thrill and some crank it to 11. Once we went fishing with my grandfather and his friends, in a regular small boat. With us was a guy they had met there last year, who had bought a pretty expensive boat just for fishing, not to talk about all the other equipment he had.

It’s a passion for a lot of people.

Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. I didn’t know about that, interesting.

Airdrop for everyone being limited to ten minutes

Wait, isn’t it already the norm?

Let’s not forget the people who were just straight up banned when they expressed their disapproval of banning the pirate communities.

You’re definitely right, a lot of the time this place feels like Reddit lite

Frankly, it’s just way too big, which can make performance bad, makes it a target for attacks and due to the huge user base it’s harder to upgrade. That’s why .world is still on 0.18.5 while most of lemmy is at 0.19.3.

Also, from what I’ve seen the admins can get a bit powertrippy.

You’ve made an amazing app, you deserve it ❤️