The comments here are smug as fuck.

That’s how Reddit was in the beginning.

Back then, you used to show someone “the front page of the internet” and it would literally be jailbait and tech news.

The defense of “it’s so easy just pick a server” is getting exhausting.

The average person wants something that works.

I just realized I have no idea who pays for Let’s Encrypt. I just run the server commands, automate it, and move on.

Joplin.

Ive been paying for Workflowy and honestly, I’ve reached my limit of cost vs value.

I needed a way to do more than just bullets, like Evernote without the bloat, or OneNote/Notes without the megacorp, something I can export and read 100 years from now.

I was surprised how often I use it, and slowly weening off of Workflowy.

And bots! Lots of bots!

Typical infighting with open-source folks. It’s a personality war with nerds. Personally, id ignore the bs drama. Every project has their share.

Source: I contribute to open source and have absolutely gone nuclear a few times

Most of these devs would have cried if they met Linus Torvalds in his prime.

reddit legally owns our posts and identity

(Laughs in web scraping)

Any entry into the Fediverse is a good one!

Gateway drug!

Different vibes. I am really liking the pixelfed UI.

Wait what?!

Why is Italians… When it’s Americans… I’m so confused!

Me working with small businesses to switch off of Instagram

Rough.

I wonder how easy it is to spin up your own instance. Or course, that’s out of reach for most non-technical folks.

I wonder if they were thinking like how before Reddit had image galleries, people would use imgur

Politics in my sci-fi? Yuck.

Gonna go enjoy my politics-free shows like Star Trek, Star Wars, Black Mirror, Westworld, and The Man In the High Castle.

Only if they include the link.

I prefer the screenshot to a webpage because

1. If it’s a shit site, I don’t want to give it clicks and revenue

2. News sites have a history of manipulating the title over and more to maximize views

3. Images are easy to scan within the Lemmy app. Versus kicking me to a browser that has to fetch data somewhere.

Sweet! This is really cool and inspired me to try something.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?