And some BSD Linux wannabies.
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joined 2 years ago
Devs love that shit... it's "practical" as they like to put it.
Damn I hope some granny does that to me some day ๐.
I was waiting for my cosin the other day at a bus stop... he arrives, he's eating a burger. I asked how much he paid for it, he said $3. I just came back from a computer store and bought a 32GB flash drive. Guess how much that thing cost me... you guessed it, $3.
So, basically, a flash drive that I'm gonna use in the next 3 or 4 years is the same price as a burger that I'm gonna eat and shit out in the next few hours or so.
IDK about everyone else, but that seems whacked to me.
Agreed ๐.
It's because the snowflake liberal techies are the ones that are left using Lemmy now ๐คท... sorry, but that's the truth... the extreme right and left wingers are no better though, so that basically makes up of about 90% of the Lemmy userbase now. The normies are gone. They tried it, some got pissed about the bannings, some about defederation, some about instances going dark and they went back to reddit ๐คท.
There also seems to be shadow banning now (though I have no idea how it's done here on Lemmy). I posted this a few hours ago... no comments, no upvotes, no downvotes... this is the 2nd post that I get no replies on. I asked people on Lemmy if they could see it, some could, some couldn't but none of them got the post on their feed.
And this basically means that I'd have to switch accounts again (the first few times were because instances went dark over night), because someone decided to shadow ban me for... god knows what reason ๐.
Not gonna lie, hate these fuckin' chains.
Yeah, I catch myself sometimes doing "how old was I ๐ค"... I know that I'm above 35 and below 40, but was I 37, 38 or 39 ๐ค ๐.
Oh, sorry, didn't understand it like that ๐... thought that was the price of the license for the library ๐.
Of course, the parts come at a price, no surprise there ๐.
There was a peak, everyone enjoyed it, it was fun (for about 2 or 3 months)... then people started realizing this will probably never be a true place for niche stuff and started to go back to Reddit... plus mods started to abuse power, instances strted defederating in bulk whoever they see fit (which is not what the fediverse is all about... it should be a last resort ๐คฆ), which of course pissed off users (let's face it, if you're on Reddit, you can see all of Reddit, not just parts of it). Now, there isn't a single instance that isn't defederated from at least one other instance. That and instances going dark over nigh (you go to sleep, can't log in the next day, find out that your instance is lost in cyberspace)... yeah, that kinda tipped the scale for normies I think.
As I said, it's good enough for techies, but normal users, nah... they want stability. They wanna be able to find a post that they posted 10 years ago and link to it. On Lemmy... there is no guarantee for that, especially if you're on a smaller instance.
!ubob@lemmy.fmhy.ml
True story, Linux sees MIME types, so if Hot.Chick.Blows.Brother.mp4 is a virus, it shows up with a Windows (MZ) binary icon, not a media icon ๐... unlike Windows which only recognizes extensions ๐.