Because other sites still haven’t ramped up enough in specialized areas to provide anywhere near reddit’s level of interaction. If I’m stumped by some technical problem in a DIY project or my various niche hobbies, I can ask a question there and usually get good answers fast. Hopefully lemmy will be there eventually, but for now lots of communities with thousands of members on reddit have hundreds or dozens on lemmy.

Having said that, if they make Old Reddit unusable, as someone suggested might soon happen, I’m out.

Being able to use old reddit is the only thing that holds what’s left of my interest.

I dunno what HIS new world agenda is but I definitely think we need a new one. The current agenda ain’t goin’ so good. But I’m thinking more like a post-scarcity agenda where robots do the work people don’t want to do and the concept of profit becomes obsolete.

• Personal insults.
• The attitude that upvotes and downvotes define right and wrong more than actual reasoning does.
• People thinking they can extrapolate your whole worldview, background and value as a human being from a comment.
• Absolutism and binary thinking, where only two opinions are possible: the Right one and the extreme opposite Wrong one, and questioning ANY aspect of the Right one implies wholehearted support for the Wrong one.

But tbh I don’t really miss any of those things, cuz they’re all here on lemmy too.

I’m thinkin’ Father Guido Sarducci will come outta nowhere and sprint to the win.

Masked Singer.

Panelists after every song: OMG that was unbelievable! That singing blew me away! Greatest singing in the history of music! I’m a changed person! Thank God I lived to witness this incredibly amazing performance!

Audience members: [gasping, staring in disbelief, open-mouthed amazement, verging on tears]

Also take 30x longer to clear their throat. Human: Ahem. Giraffe: Ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem ahem…

I agree, capitalism is just one way greed manifests itself. Greedy opportunists figure out how to exploit any system. The people douchevoting you are binary meme-brains who think you’re saying capitalism is the greatest thing since Betty White because you didn’t explicitly say the opposite.

When did Meredith at Dunder Mifflin become a vampire?

1. Trump threatens Nintendo with tariffs
2. Nintendo doesn’t seem to GAF
3. Trump says he’ll talk with Nintendo if they call
4. Nintendo doesn’t call
5. Trump cancels tariff, invites Nintendo CEO to lunch
6. MAGA applauds Trump for saving America from something or other

Good to know every generation is progressively more enlightened than previous ones, just like I keep reading on social media. All the world’s problems should be solved any day now lol.

Jesus, I was using Turbo Pascal in the 80s. Had no idea it even still existed in 2000. Flex: I wrote my own BBS in Turbo Pascal and ran if for a couple years in Portland - Tomb of the Unknown Modem.

Just my own perspective lol. I was an old-school programmer before the web era, when computers were in a computer room and we used “terminals” that were just monitors with keyboards. I only had a PC and ball mouse for like 5 years before I got an optical mouse.

At one of my jobs a guy ran the speaker wires from the adjoining cubicle in and out of his own computer so he could mix things into the other guy’s audio, mostly music and talk radio, at very low volume so it sounded like random stray signals. Took the guy like a month to figure out what was going on.

LOL I assumed it was some sort of weird prank.

Absolutely. If humans disappeared for two months every object in the world would be on the floor. Then cats, having fulfilled their mission, would suddenly vanish in a puff of loose hair.

Ahh, ok now we’re getting into supervillain territory!

Dunno if was my parents or genetics or what, but as a kid I never had the urge to do stuff like that. My impulse was make up funny stuff. The idea of breaking or ruining something seemed bad to me. So if I had gone to school in the age of computer mice I would have been pissed off if some kid disabled the mouse. It didn’t bother me when my friend tricked the voice synthesizer at the science center to repeat “Fuck you, fuck you…” but I would have called him an asshole if he poured a drink into the keyboard.

Never heard of that - does it mean gluing the ball in place or what? Also why (the fuck) would you?

Doing God’s work!