Yes, it saddens me greatly to see how far Reddit had degraded. It was an amazing place back then. Then, again, I suppose the whole Web has changed. It’s much more compartmentalized now, and even worse, much more corporatized. Walled gardens, echo chambers, the whole nine yards.

Yes, there were echo chambers even back then, but it wasn’t as...well, I guess the word I would choose is “sanitized”. It was free-er, whatever that word may have meant. Honestly, I feel sad when I hear people say the Internet is magical. Because yes it can be from time to time, but they don’t know or remember or care that it used to be so much MORE magical.

The Internet used to be Leeroy Jenkins; now’s Leeroy’s gone and it’s just a rich executive in a suit trying to peddle the newest software as a service. :(

This.

It’s something that I had to learn, coming from Reddit, too, and is a difficult paradigm shift to process: the fact that there is no “Lemmy” more than there are, rather, “Lemmys”.

Also, as a (now former) Reddit user for the longest time (>10 years), I daresay that the diversity of opinions is honestly more similar to how Reddit used to be, in terms of there being VASTLY different communities and therefore VASTLY different sets of beliefs from community to community. Reddit may be a lot more homogenized now, but back in, say, 2010? It was way more diverse. Closer to how Lemmy is now.

“Somehow…Amazon returned.”

Here’s hoping they stick to it.

I imagine a lot of people switch, see how hard it is (due to it not being how they’re used to things), and then go back.

Same.

Thank you!

Thanks.

I…can’t tell if you’re serious or making a joke. Lol.

There’s another comment that mentioned a landlord that was published exactly 30 seconds before yours. :P

^{(Please keep in mind that I’m just teasing you. Obviously, there’s no way you could have known.)}

What is “big iron”?

Well yeah. I mean, computers back then weren’t just spyware in a Scooby Doo mask.

Ah, that makes sense. That link was very enlightening. Thank you!

(On a side-note, I felt absolutely flashbanged by the sheer light mode of that page. Jesus Christ on a motorbike…)

I also haven’t. What is it?

How is it that no matter what the damn topic is, Linus always seems to be the most level-headed in the room? I really admire him for that…

Edit: Lol, Linus, not Linux. Linus. xD

Kind of seems like punishing a person for doing what you do.

Yeah, that’s the Olympian gods for ya.

There’s a reason almost all of Greek mythology can be summed up in only eight words:

“Unfortunately, Zeus was feeling rather horny that day.”

I’m not even that interested in kitchenware (mostly) and I still enjoyed that video! Just goes to show how great he is. Hehe.

It’s Technology Connections.

It’s always worth it. Because

✨ E N G I N E E R I N G

W I T H  S A S S ✨

My apologies. Your comment came off (to me anyway) as the former.

That is so weird. Haha.

I didn’t know that. Thanks!

Which distros, out of curiosity?