Thank you!

Just ran all the way to the informal side of the spectrum

are* durable as hell, the old ones are still around… because they’re very durable!

TBH it really deserves this and always has. I know a lot of people love to talk about the good old days of reddit, but tbh, in the old days it provided a safe harbor for the extreme misogyny that fuels a good portion of the right wing craziness of present day

Is that especially likely? he’s one of the founders afaik, I think they all are

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to share all my opinions ehe!

Quick backstory: I started on lemmynsfw.com which is still viewable as an archive, but the admin disappeared and the server was redirected to join a piefed instance, fedinsfw.app, which is what you can see I’m on now. The difference was immediate to me.

I like the default UI a lot better, that’s probably the biggest thing. It’s intuitive and doesn’t feel like I’m looking at a worse version of Craigslist. I know that sounds minor, but I think a lot of people around here drastically underestimate the learning curve involved with adopting the fediverse at all, and coming onto a more intuitive and better-looking page helps a lot.

On lemmy, it took me a long time to learn about alternative UIs, and then I had to log into the alternative UI I liked separately and then always remember to go to photon.whateverlemmy.com, and links might not open in the correct UI or in the UI I was logged into, it was kind of a headache. So when I was trying to encourage other people to join, I had to, like, explain all of this to them, and it was just a no-go for 99.99% of people. It also just made linksharing to my friends off-site much harder.

I’ve interacted with a few people from mastodon on here which is new to me, I love having the wider pool of people available.

Some things that I would never give up now as a porno artist: tagging, that’s HUGE, and that the default UI is a lot more image-focused while the default lemmy UI is a little more old-reddit looking. omg people can follow me on piefed!

The dev is also really responsive and improving things a lot faster than the lemmy devs were (no shade there, we’re all in different places in life, but it does matter) and now very recently he’s added multi-image support which was a huge deal for me. The gallery support is a liiiiiittle cumbersome at this stage, but it’s 1. new and 2. again super worth it for the things that piefed comes with otherwise.

If it matters, as a user, I like piefed a lot more than I liked lemmy

Gotta be RealDoll

I hate AI too but nothing this person is saying rings untrue to me. Even the article admits that data centers continue to be built, albeit slower. I know we all want the bubble to pop, but that could still be a ways off.

I don’t understand why people on the Internet will argue with someone answering questions about legal stuff as if the answerer is supporting that position or something

Apparently it’s older than I thought and not supported! I could use another project called dd-wrt though

Sometimes it’s really that simple 🥰

I don’t know for sure what I like or don’t like, but I am pretty sure I do not want to start with iptables. Thank you :)

Lol I also passed up on ring cameras, i’d like to have a camera someday but I don’t want to go through Amazon.

I wonder if I should set up a guest network for my mother-in-law. 🤔 My husband is very on-board with my privacy-focused desires and cautious about what we invite into the home but my MIL, well, is old.

Ooooo that’s really good to know. See, I think starting my journey on youtube, I was kind of getting some slightly biased perspectives, like, a lot more exposure to firms that are more likely to do youtube sponsorships, for example.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Someone suggested seeing if I could install openWRT on my current router, I might start there instead of buying anything right away, I can always grow more later as I find I’m ready to start doing x, y. or z if I find I need to.

But I’d never heard of protectli. I have a feeling that, since I was just browsing youtube to start, I mostly only learned about companies that are doing youtube sponsorships lol

I don’t think this is what I’m gonna end up doing, but I LOVE STORIES LIKE THIS. Frankensteining a bunch of shit together just makes me feel so nostalgic for how I got into PCs in the first place. MAC learning disability also made me laugh.

Can I ask what the 10 gig is for?

returns after some googling oh my LOL i see