My first experience with a pc was Windows 3 also! My parents business computers. I remember playing Jazz Jackrabbit and skifree on it. I was very young. I did get to use bare DOS tho from a hand-me-down computer that only booted into DOS. I’m not afraid of a little Console/Terminal work. I actually prefer it for some tasks. Like Arch’s pacman is SO fast.

We’re the generation that learned to troubleshoot bc we had to. If we wanted to play that shiny new game or app, we had to actually get it running first.

Yeah because some asshole thought he needed the cats more than I did 😮‍💨 and gave up not even half way.

This wouldnt be as much of as issue if Lemmy had better support for connecting with other instances and their communities.

That account still has to be linked to a real person, and not doxing yourself circles back to using social media responsibly. Social media is just that, Social media. You cant swim in the pool and not get wet. The ways in which your describing it being abused are ways in which every facet of every social media can be abused. So if one is so concerned about it, why even bother using social media.

What stuff? Lol what their profile voted for? Thats not going to dox anything like a location or address. If Seth Rogan did an ama and upvoted a 420 post literally nobody would be surprised. Again, voting opinions aren’t a privacy concern. Y’all are making a fuss about nothing.

Well you’re not a product unless a lemmy instance controller figures a way to become profitable from selling your data.

But realistically i don’t see how this is an issue. There isnt any ads on any instance that im aware of, which is what it would be used for, to serve you more personalized ads to your lemmy account. If an instance runner knows that your specific account voted a certain way on any post or comment, how could they even use that information to profit or degrade your experience here. Its just garbage data 🤷‍♂️

They are comparable in the way they are both large archives of information. The thing about reddit is that there was alot of information on obsure topics.

I disagree. So many people used Google and Reddit congruently as a sort of “hack” for finding solutions quickly, not just tech based but for any and everything. Google even announced that their search has worsened since the reddit changes. For it to be noticeable by Google and enough the publicly comment on it, I’d say it was driving alot more traffic to reddit than your thinking. It also brought in non daily active users to the site, potentially turning them into daily active users.

Tldr, if this was hurting Google enough to notice, reddit is definitely feeling the pain. 😁

Not necessarily on that last point. Alot of people run older hardware, especially recently with the economy dialing back and negligible updates being made hardware wise the past 5-6 yrs. Like i DD a '15 i7 MBP with Arch linux, and if it weren’t for the Saved documentation in the Arch Wiki for this 8yr old laptop, I would be SoL on getting many things working.

Absolutely!

Im excited for 8bitdo n64 controller internals to turn the controller into Bluetooth for Android and Linux. And switch & windows i guess too.

I couldn’t happily imagine such a future personally. Thankfully its possible to block instances without having to pay for the privilege.

My old cheap Asus N66u router has a free dyndns service built-in. Super easy to setup. I use it to host a jellyfin setup. Bout to setup a torrent server and a NextCloud server. Used to run a owncloud server a few years back and loved having it.

I’ll admit I wasn’t familiar with the free tier. But if it gains any kind of traction though it’ll go away too. They’ve vehemently shown through their actions that they want 3rd party apps gone, nsfw content gone and ads served.

Personally I’m much more excited for Sync for Lemmy.

You could’ve always done this, infinity has always been open source. However using this just means that you and others will be paying reddits ridiculous pricing for their own api access JUST to use infinity. Which iirc is gonna be around $25 a month per user depending on amount of use. Everytime you open that app itll be charging you for data…

This seems popular to some users now but I don’t see it going over to well when the bill comes due. Id rather take my chances going all in on Lemmy and helping support an instance with a community. Decentralization ftw.

Let’s have a mass organized bake sale. We’ll call the lemon squares “Lemmy Squares”. People will love it.