I want to know if it will run my wifi\bluetooth card, though.

I prepped for this a long while. Right down to having an AMD CPU and AMD rdna 2 GPU.

Oh, man. That blurry thumbnail on my phone screen looked like a naked woman from the waist up, wearing pasties or something.

You can browse digg and reddit without an account.

I agree with some quality over quantity, but we really need a bigger base than 50k to get more people on. With only 50k there’s pretty much no user base for any instances\topics that aren’t very popular.

For instance, there’s no user base for an instance about yo-yo’s here. But reddit is so big that \throwers has a subscriber count as large as the entire user base of Lemmy. We don’t need 50,000,000 people here, but having a couple million would make a world of difference.

Reddit was nothing but an unused digg clone untill digg screwed themselves so everyone just moved over.

The user base on Lemmy is 40k to 60k. It’s held there for the past year. Lemmy did get a big increase compared to the sub 10k a few years ago, but a total of 50k users is still miniscule by comparison.

If digg opened up api calls (no idea what they’re at on this right now) and has better implementation for keeping out bots with fewer ads; all the sheep will enjoy being a part of a mass exodus.

It was less bad on digg around 2010 or so when everyone bailed from there to reddit, than what reddit currently is right now.

It’s still stupid easy to make an account and create a sub. I’ve been on the internet since no one owned a cell phone and a modem gave you less than 3KB\s speeds. I’ve watched a lot of .coms that seemed unstoppable become worthless in a manner of a few months. If a few million people decide to head over to digg, the other 40 million will happily follow. It will be fun for them to do. It happening is anyone’s guess.

There was a time when aol owned the internet, dogpile was the greatest search engine, Yahoo was the defacto email provider, Craigslist was the only and best way to make local sales, and MySpace was where you put yourself up at on the internet.

That’s pretty nonsensical logic.

By that logic, reddit never would have been a thing, because they didn’t have the content or the users, because they were all on digg.

No one migrated en masse to Lemmy because making an account here is too much work for someone to just hop on over and check out.

It wiped and all is new. I made my same email and user name I had there from like 20 years ago. I was a bit sad it didn’t say I had been on there since like 2005. I don’t plan on using the account much, but I’d be damned if some bot or something took my old user name before I got it.

Digg screwed up by doing what reddit had done starting a few years back, while there was an easy and available alternative to go over to.

Now digg is the easy alternative to go over to, but it won’t work as well. At least not for long. The people who own digg are venture capitalist firms. It’s sole existence is to monetize the hell out of the platform.

Meanwhile, Lemmy treads water with a bit too few members because the learning curve is a bit steeper to get started.

I just replaced my old 1060 with a Radeon 6600 rx myself.

Ditto

You got a mouse?

I got like 15,000 comments tho.

Absolutely. I’m just saying its not a novel idea.

Computer companies tried that for a while like 15 years ago, too.

And it’s satire gold. It was also immediately apparent that it was satire.

Look at how they’re willing to act in order to attract millions of 12 year old viewers. You can’t fake act being that stupid and emotional for that many hours pretty much every day unless you’re fucked up in the head.

Lemmy is pretty much exactly the same as reddit, but without so much advertising and a much smaller user base.

Some people get pissed about that being said, but most users know it’s true. There are still overzealous mods and instances pushing and controlling agendas. As it gets more popular, more ai bots will start spamming stuff. In the meantime, it’s not bad. I’ve almost completely stopped using reddit after about 16 years. I still hop over if I need or want certain bits of information. It’s easier to get info/advice from 100,000 subscribers than it is from 100.

For the most part though, I’m happy with lemmy and have no plans of returning to reddit. It is kind of a dumpster fire over there.

Reddit went public the same way robinhood did. Well known name recognition and seen unfavorably by many of their users when going public.

So far it’s following the same path. Initial quick rise due to name popularity, then it will drop for a couple months before slowly rebounding back up part way to a more realistic price point for its valuation.

Personally, I think reddits real pricepoint should be $20 to $30 a share. I’m guessing it will drop below that point before going back to it. Short selling popularity may take it there faster, but im saying it will go under $20 a share either way.