I think it also priorizes Nitro users

I’m still not allowed to choose usernames without the discriminator

i need to heal my brain from mindless scrolling

While people still resist the Fediverse they will happily keep jumping from walled garden 1 to walled garden 2 because they lure them with convenience. But Discord is already starting to go to shit.

it’s pretty much proprietary IRC with extra bloat…unless you use a client but then your account is in danger

stockholm syndrome

it’s going to rapidly become a poorly moderated dumpster and people will eventually stop visiting until it becomes a zombie forum

Reddit has excessive bureaucracy and modbots who shadowban you for reasons as stupid as posting in a certain sub once despite never participating in the sub you got banned from.

at least it gave Lemmy the kick it needed, and the quantity and quality of posts will simply never be the same. Also Reddit, FUCK YOUR REDESIGN AND FUCK YOUR APP. Javascript bloat that doesn’t respect you.

Good thing I decided to move to lemmy.world. Seems shady.

It makes me hopeful for the future. Enthusiasts priming the pump for people embracing a more sustainable and less exploitative business model to organize the Internet. Instead of putting all the information on a big centralized locked down platform we share the load and costs between instances.

I love what is happening now, it is pretty much the biggest display of resistance against big tech I’ve ever seen in my life by a long shot. I’ve seen most of the internet gradually decay to a shadow of its former self so this is a return to form and a switch to a better model in the long run.

People are finally adopting the Fediverse and if the adoption rates keep up we might start going mainstream with all the advantages and disadvantages, but it will be alright since Lemmy is both federated and FLOSS. Lemmy is a Rust-based, AGPLv3 platform and that means it will be protected against corruption in the foreseable future, I hope.

EDIT: Over 30% of Reddit already went dark!

Windows 7 is still the most comfortable OS for mouse and keyboard desktops sadly.

It feels great not to just belong to a single site but to a federation of many other sites you can almost seamlessly interact with.