Glad I made the switch back to FireFox a year or two ago. As a Dev, I was entrenched in Chrome and it wasn't an easy move but with the path Google are currently treading around ad serving, blocking the ad blocks etc. I feel I made the right choice.....

I technically started with Steam Deck and finally took the plunge of partitioning my daily driver to install Linux Mint back a few weeks ago.

No regrets....

I'm a developer (web app predominantly ) and find I can use it for about 80% - 85% of my daily workflow. Things I miss and can't substitute are mainly around image editing / vector editing where GIMP and InkScape are just not there for the way I work.

Loving my time with it and would highly recommend anyone on the fence take the dive and give Mint a go. It's incredibly familiar the moment you boot it :)

Kudos...... It's very much appreciated and a refreshing change to not be let down by something you enjoy online.

You and me both.... I have seen that place through its ups and downs. From the narwhal bacon's at midnight to Jolly Rancher, Zoop and the swamps of drogba.

I finally left my account a few days ago and haven't been back since. The place is a shell of what it used to be and it's been really very refreshing have a scout about somewhere else.

Fuck greed..... It eventually ruins everything!

Well, I'm here !

I have removed my Reddit account after 10yrs + 100k + karma and more hours invested than I would like to admit.

This time, I'm legit done with the place. I don't like where they are headed and decided to give Lemmy a go.

So far, so good :)

I got my account approved and I'm good to go. This is my first comment of many, many more to come.

Good to be here folks...

The older I get, the more I fucking hate obnoxiously loud cars..... It was like a switch that went off in my head when I hit the 35-40yrs old mark.

Pumping base tunes from said vehicle is additional hate.

I'm one of those that nuked my Reddit account too... Was a Boost user for many, many years. Tens of thousands of contributions in the way of posts and comments and this move by them was the straw that broke the camel. The place is a shell of what it was in the early days sadly. Year by year it's seemingly declined.

I'm done with it and moving on to pastures a new :)

So far, I'm really impressed with Lemmy !

Completely agree..... I see so many posts with "I would like this feature from Reddit etc." But honestly, it's quite refreshing to have something different.

The API changes were just the straw that broke the camel for me as after 13 years plus on the platform, it didn't even resemble what I initially signed up for.

I legit hope Lemmy doesn't turn in to a Reddit 2.0 where every reply to question is someone trying to be a smart ass and where not conforming to the ideology of the masses gets you nuked.

I too remember the days of IRC and I remember sitting in certain channels where we would all take turns in staying silent and allowing someone on the chat to hit the record voice and play a Jazz song they loved. I would sit there all night listening to and sharing music with people from all over the world drinking beers and chatting among ourselves.

Man, the early days of work arounds and early internet I miss. Every night of surfing was seriously exciting as you never knew what you would stumble on or find. Now it's the same dozen websites over and over rinse and repeat.

Anyhow, nostalgia and gripe over..... I agree 100%.

I'm really enjoying Lemmy as is and don't want to be wishing it away any time soon !

You can count me in that age group too.... I was there for the very first dial up, ICQ, Messenger, Kaza and the rest of it.

Shut my account on Reddit a few days back and have not been back since. Can't recall how many years I was there but it's easily 10+.

Ha ha... Someone internally really needs to be like "dude, seriously shut up at this point you're just making it worse" .

There is nothing more amusing than someone with an enormouse ego making a complete cluster fuck of a situation.

I once had one on an e-commerce store...

"The dollar sign before the price looks a little bland.... Can you make it POP or doing something more interesting like make it move around or something?"

That a Welsh username by chance?

And yea, thoroughly depressing.... I find the situation similar to the old micro transaction / shit game port situation where the masses couldn't care less and the small minority rebel and have little to no effect.

Sadly those that care about these things are generally grossly outweighed by those that couldn't give a toss. I haven't been back to Reddit for 4-5 weeks now and as a very early Reddit adopter I thought the break would be harder than what it has been. I have mentioned in a few posts here that the most surprisong thing to me is how often I was being served subtle ads guised in the form of content on Reddit. In 4 weeks or more I don't think I have seen a brand as such mentioned on Lemmy yet with Reddit it was legit every dozen posts. I knew this went on, but it took a week or so on Lemmy for me to realise the actual extent of it.....

Good riddance to the place, Lemmy feels like the early doors of the internet and I'm quite comfortable here :)

I'm here for the long haul.... Reddit accounts have been deleted and time for change :)

I hear you... it's a killer isn't it.

The number of times I have made a rod for my own back with clients..... "Yea, I'll add that I'm for you no problem".....

The famous last words.

The can of worms opens and a few rounds of crisis of confidence and tears later, eventually get there and think, I'm keeping my mouth shut from here on in.

Rinse and repeat :)

I don't have an answer but I'm also quite interested to find out what kind of server specs are we talking to get off the ground? Would love to hear from someone that has recently started their own....

Like the box that contains the internet on the IT Crowd.....

As the audience stares in sheer awe !

:)

Choo Choo my friend, Choo Goddamn Choo!!!! :)

Aye.... We're all on the Lemmy train now for sure :)

Thanks for this... I honestly thought it was a bug of sorts and commented as such somewhere below.

This is a pretty poor usability design decision and hope they reverse it.

I have never understood people's lack of ability to just move on.

Don't like something, like seriously just move on, don't like a post / comment, move on rinse and repeat.

You're not going to like everything and you're not going to agree with everyone, and you know what..... That's alright, it's being human !