Lindsay graham comes to mind.

When I remember back to the early 80s, me a single digit aged human with my first Commodore 64 and a cassette tape drive, to being a high school aged kid and helping my buddies install their extended memory set chip by chip to get them to 1mb of ram, to way in the future where I type this comment on a mobile phone touch screen capable of unfathomable high resolution graphics and speed is still a surreal feeling.

I grew up and grew old with computers and it’s wild to imagine a life without and a world without them nearly 50 years later.

I think baked beans are more of a BBQ item and July 4th is also a big BBQ day. Baked beans and bbq go way back :)

Yet another complete piece of shit I don’t like this regression to outspoken racism being okay.

If you want to see only high effort content only join appropriate communities, it’s as easy as that. To justify blthr block because it will taint the space is just a bad arguments in my eyes.

couldn't agree more. there's certainly plenty of 'content' on the fediverse that i have absolutely zero interest in and would rather not see - but i can control that pretty easily even as a new user so I don't see the value in gatekeeping. maybe I dont care about linux but maybe both the linux user and I both like catswithjobs - that's the beauty of diversity, of finding common bonds amidst the differences and celebrating together.

i left reddit not because i have to use their shitty app - i left because it was completely crystal clear that the management attitude toward users is extremely toxic and hateful. Basically repeatedly gave the community the finger, and continues to do so. It's their playground, but i dont have to go where i feel unwanted.

never found this community on reddit, but im glad you're here, seems like a fun time. /subscribe

Isn’t this how Reddit gold originally was presented? No ads, perks like the lounge, and if I recall right how much server time you’d contributed, along with the impact of daily contributions and etc

I had over 15000 Reddit coins when I cancelled my premium subscription last month. I’ve had it since they handed out years of premium when they killed Alien Blue. When it ran out I decided I enjoyed paying for no ads and still remembered when they’d tell you how much server time you paid for and would announce all the new servers coming online that came from gold users.

Anyway I used to get a kick out of spending my coins on people who hated it. I handed out more than a few in June, but it was money already spent.

And it was a really easy way to provide value to your existing users while also attracting and perhaps retaining new users. Instead they fired Victoria. Shoulda known back then. Shoulda known along the way multiple times.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. But at least now I finally see them for what they are - arrogant, out of touch, and actual outward disdain for the users.

Thank you. As a recent refugee I like that lemmy can fill a void but it’s going to take community effort to have the engagement and diversity that Reddit did. As a decade long Reddit lurker I’ve decided that my lemmy experience will be better if I upvote the things that contribute, comment instead of just lurking, and rather than expecting to jump into this expecting the traffic and variety of the old place, I and the other refugees have an opportunity to make our little spaces in the fediverse a little brighter and grow with the community. It’s an exciting time after the dread of the deadline began to grow. I’m happy I’m here, and I’m happy you (and everyone) are here! Let’s grow together!

It’s really great! It feels like Apollo did in terms of scrolling and interacting and commenting - and has multiple account support and honestly looks just like Apollo did. Super impressed with how functional wefwef is for a web app.