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!

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

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.

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.

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 ❤️

Congratulations! One of the best lemmy apps out there, so excited it’s finally on the App Store!

Fair enough

Isn’t that intentional though? I don’t believe many instances, especially the small ones, can afford to federate every community. Sure, sometimes it can be a bit annoying but you can always check on lemmyverse.

They really are amazing. Glad to have you with us 😊

Saw you recently created an account here. You truly are everywhere lol

Oh definitely, I find them very enjoyable to read. Took a short break after the first book, starting A Clash of Kings tomorrow. Thanks for the encouragement!

It’s pretty unfortunate. There’s been some attempts at reconstructing some of the castles but let’s say they weren’t ideal.

We could at least look on the bright side that although the castles are mostly in ruin, the legacy and culture of the medieval Bulgarian states still remain.

Nevertheless it definitely could feel like a piece of history is just gone.