Lemmy is fine so far, but I have some concerns about the long term. Things like who’s keeping the platform updated and how is hosting being funded? In 5 years we may find ourselves in a Reddit-like situation where mods start asking for financial backing to keep the community afloat. I don’t mean that as a criticism, but even ignoring other factors these services cost money to run. I mean, in this era of inflation and rising interest rates it’s core to the problems we’re seeing with so many online services. Reddit’s leadership sucks and they’ve handled their situation in the worst possible way, but it’s clear that financially they’re in a difficult spot.

Beyond that, I expect the Nerfing community to fragment. Whether that’s a good or bad thing I don’t know. For my part, I’m not joining 5 different groups to keep tabs on what’s going on. I’ve got other interests and responsibilities. I’m happy to support the community here, but I’d be lying if I wasn’t a bit resentful that the Nerf Reddit is still locked. I appreciate the protest, but mods are just facet to the community.

I used Worker darts in mine. Performance is pretty inconsistent. I got shots as high as 169fps and as low as 114fps.

I opened it completely. I had to dremel the front end to fit the barrel. There are a lot of screws and a few fiddly bits but it’s not bad at all to get apart.

I also tried removing the ratchet arm. It works, but I noticed that with it missing the trigger pulls the front prime back just enough that the blaster won’t fire. Not a big deal if you push on the front grip, but still a nuisance.

I didn’t think Discord is a good alternative for what we had on Reddit, so I’m glad this community was created.

Hopefully, the JSON errors I keep seeing get fixed.