There’s always some stupid image for some stupid anniversary like Mary F. Dinklehorn becoming the first trans-gay-librarian in Antarctica or something

You owe me a new shirt for the coffee stains I just spat all over mine

My daily reddit use has dropped by an order of magnitude. Now I just subscribe to a few subreddit RSS feeds that I skim through once a day, and that’s pretty much it. If I really feel compelled to post something, I’ll begrudgingly grab my laptop and head to old.reddit … we’ll see how long that lasts.

For its own sake, no. Unless I happen to be doing something I intrinsically enjoy that happens to give me exercise, I hate it every time. I need some really motivating tunes otherwise, and they wear out fast after a few listens.

What we didn’t have was algorithmic social media. That needs to a die a fiery death in the depths of hell.

If it were up to me, algorithmic curation and promotion based on viewership history would be outright illegal.

I was wondering what Gilfoyle was up to these days

To be perfectly honest, no :(

Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there’s always something new and interesting to find in /r/all

I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.

Canadian here. Municipal water supply is highly filtered and treated. I drink it straight out of the tap.

I don’t host any instances myself, but I have experience with web hosting in general. Yes, the hardware will need to scale vertically with more activity, but I don’t know what lemmy’s anticipated load thresholds are.

I would guess a decent i7 with an SSD and 16GB+ RAM would handle lemmy quite comfortably for a good while. So the expense isn’t entirely trivial, but it’s nothing compared to a centralized service with hundreds of millions of regular users.

Really, the only direct cost of lemmy is the development. That’s the beauty of lemmy’s decentralized nature, the cost of actually running it is spread out among tech hobbyists with spare hardware and time (edit: and only ~$30/year or less for a domain name), or may even have some money to throw at new hardware. For most people, the connectivity doesn’t incur any additional cost to whatever they’re already paying for internet access.

There are plenty of free and excellent open source projects that neither charge money or generate profits, they’re driven by passionate developers who give their and talent for the enjoyment of it and betterment of the community.___

It’d be a mix of both for me. I like what I’m seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won’t flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), and none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.

Lemmy is the closest thing I’ve found so far in terms of a similar experience and UX, and while it’s still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.