Are any of these actually good?

I mean, aside from Lemmy. I tried Mastadon and no one was actually on it, seems like everyone is jumping to Bluesky.

Firefox user here, fuck chrome!

And here I am, using Google messages, Facebook messenger, Whatsapp and line. And teams and discord. And steam chat.

Oof

The og

Spez is a maroon

Reddit is not moderated by paid corporate employees. It’s all volunteer labor.

Exit old.reddit.com

The UK archive apparently archives everything. Tom Scott recently did a video about it.

My grandfather got really into video archiving and from the early 80s through 2005 amassed about 14,000 video tapes, mostly of various aviation TV shows. He spent his entire life as an engineer for Lockheed. His entire 2-story condo in San Diego was a massive VHS library with shelving extending 8 ft high.

Anyways, my father and aunt threw it all in a dumpster because they didn’t know what to do with it. All they kept were his ashes… Which almost 20 years later are still sitting on a bookshelf somewhere

I don’t know man, I’ve been using my Roku TV from Haier that I bought back in 2015 or 16 and they’re still updating it!

It’s actually been a rock solid TV.

I just subscribe to whatever content I want to see. Wish my feed defaulted to subscribed instead of all because I hate lemm.ee.

Good bot

Most people are content consumers, not creators. It looks like the exodus was largely that if users so…

The problem is that quite a few content creators become entrenched using their platform and they don’t want to move on. Just look at all the journalists and human rights advocated still using Twitter. Now they’re being doxxed and their platform destroyed but they still won’t leave.

I visited /r/space the other day and everyone there was complaining how the mods weren’t doing their jobs and their sub was being spammed to death with shitty posts, OT content, porn etc. Kind of funny and exactly what was predicted.

Some of those even link to the reddit thread! So if anything it diverts Lemmy users back to reddit.

Reminds me of early days of Linux.

You should ditch windows and switch to Linux! It has everything!

What I can I do on it?

You can compile your own kernel!

…

TL;DR: X’s rate increases are costing the service about ¥6 million per month. As that is very expensive, they would rather spend their money developing their own platform and using a free social media platform to disseminate information.

”…move our operations onto different platforms will eventually only result in the same outcome as this time and therefore will not be considered.”

The triple knees didnt bother you?

I would fully switch to linux - I have done some dabbling with it, including setting up a media PC w/ steam on it - but I cannot run any of my business or productivity apps.

Specifically, Autocad, Revit, and VR software do not work. So wahwah

Yeah, the problem here as I see it is that just the same as Twitter, this social media service is still owned by a single owner corporation who is running the service for a profit and they will eventually sell user data or bastardize the service. Ive been on the internet for 30 years, social media and websites come and go and so does their popularity.

Which raises another point, how are the bills being paid for with any of these services, including lemmy? TAANSTAFL.