I’m not a judge, but isn’t internet essentially a utility these days? Cutting someone off because of piracy seems like cutting off electricity or water because they did something illegal with it.

Sometimes I forget how long it’s been!

The moment I see myself in an ad, I’m giving up on technology and joining the Amish.

What a loss. =(

It’s a strange quirk of lemmy that we will continue to be able to see content from lemm.ee even after they’ve shut down. It’ll feel like seeing ghosts.

Is any other app out there able to handle streaming games to your friends as easily as discord?

It seems like we should probably be looking for the next ship to jump to…

I had them! Hurt myself plenty…

Wait till it’s so enshittified it’s unusable

Discord is going public soon, so start the timer…

I was a “Reddit is Fun” user for at least a decade

The impression I had of the US election based on it was completely out of line with reality

I’ve largely switched to Lemmy for the past two years, but this was really the last nail in the coffin for reddit for me too. It’s an enforced echo-chamber and no longer a reliable source of information. It’s hard to notice how bad things are when the politics are leaning in your direction, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it, and it feels gross.

Lemmy is obviously pretty politically homogeneous too, but the difference is that I don’t feel like someone is trying to trick me. Topics and and sources are clearly influenced by the individual posters’ opinions, but it doesn’t feel like there’s a coordinated behind-the-scenes effort to push an agenda, which makes for a better vibe.

It’s the social media equivalent of supporting a bunch of Mom and Pop shops (or opening your own!) vs some hyper-sanitized, corporate monstrosity like Wal-Mart.

Part of it seems to stem from people’s excitement to infodump about how federated social media works.

That’s relevant and interesting to learn about, but the average person just needs to hear “make and account here and start browsing memes” first.

People were predicting this a while back as a way that reddit would make themselves more “advertiser-friendly”.

I also wonder if there were some legal concerns in those states that now require porn sites to check IDs.

Lactose tolerant?

It’s what connects us all.

That’s like being mad at the bus because your chosen destination for the day sucked.

Isn’t it that Lemmy clone?

Haha, I did. I still posted a few, but I was out of town with family for days and was barely on my phone.

I would totally use a retro style beige case for my next build…