I have a couple of thoughts.

1. I dont need or want Lemmy to appeal to the mainstream. Frankly, I already get all the mainstream ‘culture’ I can stand, and frequntly more.

2. I think it’s a mistake to consider Lemmy a one-to-one repacement for Reddit. I hope the fediverse can leverage the whole, y’know, federation thing. I think topic-driven instances that function similarly to the old phpBB boards is a good paradigm. It’s not about a monster site that has a board for everything. It’s more answering the question, ‘What if I could post on gamefaqs from my metal archives account?’

I guess I just think we could do better than trying to out-reddit reddit, when it comes to having a vision for the platform.

Signed, a linux using socialist.

I try to keep an eye out for repetitive tasks that might make good projects. I just started a python script that’s going to download all my google photos so i can free up my cloud storage.

I think communities run by people who wish to mod them arbitrarily should be allowed to exist.

Import Driving.Self

What do you use for hosting? I’m looking for a good host and highly budget conscious.

What makes hosting with PHP cheaper than with python?

Same, i thought it was about having a manic episode or something

I’m glad I didn’t pay for this. It looks fun but the performance is terrible it’s literally freezing right now as I’m trying to quit. It eats up almost all of my CPU. I don’t have a high-end gaming rig (any more), but i was able to get better performance out of the outer worlds.

I wouldnt be surprised if this was suicide by cop. But its still indicative of a structural problem that such a thing is possible.

Excuse me i think you mean ctrl+c:w

I recently switched from jerboa to Voyager, how do you do it?

All that is solid melts into air

Please share your ad blocking strategy when you do!

I never used bare DOS, my first experience with a PC was on windows 3.1

I think about this a lot. I’m so grateful I had the experience of messing with the windows registry and other phenomena of the 90s.

I think it might be a bit of an xy problem. I myself have hoped for the runaway success of the fediverse. But I realized it’s not actually some absolute number of users I want. What I want is for the fediverse to have that same “there’s a community for anything” that reddit had.

I’m starting to hope the fediverse doesn’t get too big now, honestly. There’s a certain number of eyeballs that is going to attract people interested in exploiting those eyeballs, and I don’t know if the fediverse is robust enough to fight them off as the pot of gold they see begins to overflow. It’s hard balance to find. And maybe the decentralized aspect of the fediverse does mean that it can’t be fully assimilated by capital, I don’t know.

Were living in interesting times.

I spent most of my time on Reddit in the learn programming subs, so I’m glad at least that demographic has moved here. I’m almost 34, don’t work in tech but want to, don’t use Linux but want to (and if the rumors of windows adding ads to the OS are true I will switch to Linux full time except for gaming). I wasn’t really that invested in the reddit API changes but I liked reddit when it was more under ground and wild west. I used to spend a lot of time on rcsources (those days are behind me regardless, though). So I wanted to see if there was still room on the internet for the outlaw tech cowboy shtick, and Lemmy stepped up to the plate.

I think it’s absurd to give Meta the shadow of a benefit of the doubt. in the past, they have explicitly stated their intention to make facebook the internet. If zuck had his way, there would be exactly one website, a monolith collecting your data to more efficiently serve you ads. There is no world in which their participation in the fediverse is not self serving and a net loss for the rest of us.

Wouldn’t that be 499 cases?

I love the lack of ads, but I suppose I could live with them as long as they were clearly distinguished from real user content. I hated those reddit ads that were from a reddit account and looked like just another post if you didn’t pay attention to the flair.