What are you interested in? What are your hobbies/what are you good at? Do something that involves that field. For me it was technology, I was always into video games and computers growing up in the 90’s and by high school I knew I wanted to get into programming. After high school I knew I wanted to go into some form of programming so I went into computer engineering and am now an embedded software engineer. Do you have passion for any particular topic or area of study as a hobby?

PinePhone Pro at the moment, with keyboard case.

Conversely, websites that are missing features from the mobile version or app on the desktop version. I don’t want to do everything on a phone. I want to use my PC. I want to use Linux phone which is a pocketable PC. Screw your stupid app.

Unfortunately, FanControl is not open source. It uses librehardwaremonitor which is, but the FanControl project does not have source code posted and is not under a FOSS license.

LibreWolf is the way. I have it on everything. I have it on Windows, Mac, and Linux. I have it on my Linux phone. It’s nice to have Firefox without the adware and with extra privacy.

Or if you were an old.reddit user, try https://mlmym.org instead.

Hacker’s Keyboard. The only keyboard I’ll ever use on Android.

1. McDonalds
2. Taco Johns
3. Culvers?
4. Hardees? (least sure on this one)

Agreed, Reddit used to show up/down counts but got rid of it and I thought that was a stupid choice on their part. Reddit also did other weird manipulations to the upvote count on posts which I’m glad we don’t have here.

Definitely this, Lemmy feels like the early days of Reddit. I wasn’t a super early Reddit user as I came over just before the Digg migration (and mostly used Digg prior to the migration) but 2010 Reddit felt quite different to modern Reddit. Lemmy recaptures that smaller community feel, but I am excited to see it grow.

Learned about Lemmy from Reddit but never heard of kbin until recently. That said, I like the name Lemmy a lot more than the name kbin. kbin sounds like a hex editor for KDE, not a Reddit alternative. I love the open source community, but sometimes the names of projects leave much to be desired. Lemmy isn’t the perfect name but it’s more memorable than kbin.

Embracing the Fediverse now does pretty much feel like “taking back the Internet”. It reminds me of the early days and that’s an amazing thing. Tired of the over commercialized hellscape the Internet has become over the past decade and a half.

This weekend I made a video response to Gamers Nexus and got retweeted by Steve so there’s that. That doesn’t usually happen. Also wrote some code, went to Micro Center, and mowed the lawn.

I signed up for the lemmy.ml Patreon and am happy to support an open, federated site like this. I’d never pay for Reddit Gold, Twitter Blue, Discord Nitro, or any of those other nasty pay-to-win commericalized things but I’ll pay to keep an open platform from implementing stupid “premium” bullshit.

Yes but also no. I missed Digg when I left it for Reddit and I loved the earlier days of Reddit. Reddit was a lot of my college years from 2010-2012. Reddit felt like a very nice community back then, but it’s been going steadily downhill for years and I’m not surprised it’s come to this at all. Lemmy feels like a breath of fresh air, especially given that we’re migrating off of corporate controlled media this time rather than just jumping ship to another proprietary platform with a limited lifespan. It hits different this time, in a good way. I’ll miss the good times on Reddit and the communities there, but to be honest those communities were best in Reddit’s heyday. I’ll probably miss the vast amount of information that Reddit built up over the years most, that’s over a decade of Internet history killed off by greed. I’m hoping moving to decentralized platforms will stop the cycle of corporate greed putting an expiration date on our Internet homes.

In a maybe ironic twist, I’m more than happy to pay for sites that are truly free but completely unwilling to pay for “free” sites backed by ads, tracking, and corporate bullshit. I subscribed to the Lemmy dev’s Patreon and I sponsor a few open source projects on GitHub but I would never pay for Twitter Blue, Reddit Gold, Discord Nitro, etc. I want to reward good behavior, not support bad. I also supported Mastodon for a while on Patreon but when they changed the Mastodon onboarding process to make it more centrallized I pulled back on that. I don’t want to reward restriction of the openness the Fediverse provides, even if some subset of users can’t figure it out.

Boomers (my parents’ generation) were telling us 90’s kids how dangerous it was to put your information online, but then it seemed once social media happened they all forgot about such privacy concerns entirely. They were right the first time!

The only thing I’m willing to pay a subscription for are the essentials that have no product alternative, i.e. utilities - power, water, Internet. I refuse to pay for streaming when they used to sell DVDs and CDs with the same content. I refuse to pay for game subscription services when you used to be able to buy the games outright. I refuse to pay for software-as-a-service or bullshit like cloud service integrations for smart home stuff. If I don’t own it, I don’t buy it.

I miss YouTube actually being YOU tube. It was originally supposed to be a place for the common person to post their videos and find an audience, but now it’s devolved into YouTube Music, YouTube TV, and even regular YouTube is heavily dominated by for-profit, high production value full-time content creators. It’s become just as commercialized as old TV was except that instead of commercials it’s sponsorships and paid reviews even if you adblock away the actual ads. Everyone panders to YouTube’s inane rules now because heaven forbid they get DEMONITIZED!

Arch Linux on my main PC because it 1) is not Ubuntu and 2) has very up to date drivers and software packages which means running the latest hardware isn’t a problem. I have an Intel Arc A770 in my main PC and the last time I tried running even Debian unstable on it, it didn’t have graphics drivers at all. Also, the AUR is an incredible thing with pretty much any software you can think of being made available for Arch by the community even if it isn’t in the official repos.