Yes it was interesting finding communities banned from Reddit who seemed like they had been here awhile.

I have a silly need to buy tech for no reason

Me too, I have three of them now plus an old chromebook that I rooted and installed linux on when the price of a PI was skyhigh during the pandemic. The chromebook set me back $40. Installing PeppermintOS on it was pretty easy.

I can’t find it now. The number that I saw was 1.09 million, but I can’t find the site I saw it on now. I think a bunch of them must be purged spam accounts maybe.

I don’t think people really understand that reddit is an 18 year old product. Their original site was iterated on for 10 years before they stopped building on it.

Lemmy will get there and beyond. As the fediverse attracts more users, it will also attract more contributors. I’m starting to learn Rust myself in hopes I can contribute to the project at some point down the line.

Please for anyone reading, just be patient. Keep posting and commenting and it WILL grow. There are only like 1.2 million Lemmy users versus hundreds of millions of redditors.

If you follow the 90-9-1 rule, that leaves very few actual contributors and still Lemmy has a lot of good content daily. Just be patient and it will come.

I’ve bought two on eBay in the last year. Got the last one for around $135 and it was a kit.

No way Im running linux on a Mac. That’s what a raspberry pi is for.

Totally agree. Each sub top mod should submit one good post per day at a minimum.

What Lemmy needs now more than anything is commenters. If the site is to succeed, it needs robust comment sections.

I don’t generally block anyone on social media. I don’t want to block racists and then not be able to report their racism.

I was trying to but the instance was down.

Yes, I’m sure.

That ain’t gonna happen.

I can’t get into calling subs “magazines”. Communities is much better.

How do I gild this comment?

As more people join these kinds of things will change and evolve. Hopefully the site infrastructure will adapt to it as well.

When the API changes were announced, for the first time I started thinking I should leave reddit. This coin thing was just kicking me while I was down. Ok, they want to get rid of awards for a new system. But you also want to remove them from past posts?? And you’re not going to convert coin balances into anything?

Those are the things a company that has no regard for it’s users does.

I’ve only been on Lemmy a few days but I’ve modded nearly 150 subs in my time. I’m not sure I’m ready to commit to moderating on lemmy yet, but I’m thinking about it.

How much moderation is needing to take place?