Because there’s some tortoise torturing dickhead narrating a fake story about me

The ratio of commenter/poster to lurker is always pretty lopsided. I also never read user names.

OR WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? by Bille Eilish

Or Currents by Tame Impala

Either The Wall by Pink Floyd or In Rainbows by Radiohead

Or The Money Store by Death Grips

Or ænemia by Tool

Or Dirt by Alice in Chains

Or-

That’s actually new information to me! The news was pointing to a broader push to subscriptions for subreddits site wide. Definitely not doing that.

I also admit that I am deeply unhappy with reddits enshittification. I’ve been on reddit for over a decade and joined when I was in highschool. Moving was the last thing I wanted, but I’m more aware of the big-corp-monopoly we’re all suffering under. This is part of it.

I recently migrated here. I did so as a precaution, and still browse reddit sometimes .

Reddit IPO’ed, and is now focused on making money. They removed the API to centralize it’s power and remove 3rd party apps. They threatened subreddits who protested, and shut some down. And have made sweeping changes to accommodate to advertisers.

The straw that broke the snoo’s back was the CEO hinting at subreddit paywalls. I figured I would try to learn Lemmy again, and what do you know, it’s more serious, has better comments and posts, segmented even more than reddit with the distros, and fully free/open source.

It also helps that I’m a huge computer nerd, and there’s a lot of that on here, but you can find your niche.

This seems intensely useful if it was matured and solid. Compressing down complexity is usually very valuable in tech, like Markdown is.