Same here. Guess we’ll both be alone forever.

Am I the only one who’s never seen a hot blind person? For some reason, every blind person ever seen looks like a gargoyle. I’m not trying to be mean, I’m just stating my observations and saying this greentext is likely fraudulent and of a homologous nature.

Coffee is the glorious nectar of Hermes and sugar is totally optional. Even if you do add sugar, you only need 1/10th of what’s in a single can of Coke to really brighten up the flavor.

They both taste like shit. #Water4Ever

The leading Democratic mischief-maker is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who advocates some left-wing views I consider simplistic and impractical and, in some cases, poll badly. The top example of a conservative mischief-maker, presented in perfect symmetry, is Marjorie Taylor Greene.

This author is like Shrodinger’s dumbass: I can’t tell whether he’s being facetious or if he’s actually pulling the BoTh SiDEs card, as if these two reps are even remotely comparable.

lmao damn Jewish space lasers!

I was wondering what Gilfoyle was up to these days

To be perfectly honest, no :(

Reddit is just so incredibly massive, there’s always something new and interesting to find in /r/all

I hope one day that lemmy can achieve such reach.

Canadian here. Municipal water supply is highly filtered and treated. I drink it straight out of the tap.

I don’t host any instances myself, but I have experience with web hosting in general. Yes, the hardware will need to scale vertically with more activity, but I don’t know what lemmy’s anticipated load thresholds are.

I would guess a decent i7 with an SSD and 16GB+ RAM would handle lemmy quite comfortably for a good while. So the expense isn’t entirely trivial, but it’s nothing compared to a centralized service with hundreds of millions of regular users.

Really, the only direct cost of lemmy is the development. That’s the beauty of lemmy’s decentralized nature, the cost of actually running it is spread out among tech hobbyists with spare hardware and time (edit: and only ~$30/year or less for a domain name), or may even have some money to throw at new hardware. For most people, the connectivity doesn’t incur any additional cost to whatever they’re already paying for internet access.

There are plenty of free and excellent open source projects that neither charge money or generate profits, they’re driven by passionate developers who give their and talent for the enjoyment of it and betterment of the community.___

It’d be a mix of both for me. I like what I’m seeing on lemmy, but reddit is enrimous and users won’t flock here in the same numbers if reddit does an about face.

There really are no viable, slipstream alternatives. The only entities with the resources to spin up a massive, centralized social link aggregator and community-based discussion system would be a handful of companies in big tech (Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet/Google, etc.), though none of them have platforms that are appropriately analogous to reddit. Even if they did, three weeks to migrate and onboard millions of users is a tall order.

Lemmy is the closest thing I’ve found so far in terms of a similar experience and UX, and while it’s still pretty rough around the edges (mainly in terms of UX and infrastructure redundancy), the decentralized nature enables it to scale horizontally without requiring resource expansion for a single player. It definitely needs some work to optimize instance implementation and capacity-based promotion, but I believe it has a lot of potential.

You’re in for a disappointment