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[–] [email protected] 299 points 4 months ago (3 children)

WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH ALL MY BIDEN HATS, FLAGS, T-SHIRTS, AND STICKERS?!

/Just kidding - not in a cult 😅

[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

not in a cult

Sure? You are on Lemmy after all.

/joking. Or am I? 🤔 VSauce music plays

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Yep, dropped Digg for Reddit. Dropped Reddit for Lemmy. Will drop Lemmy for something else if I end up not liking it. 😎

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I did Slashdot, Reddit, Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

GameFAQs, TOTSE, 4chan, 99chan, imgur, Reddit, Lemmy is my redemption arc

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You were on imgur before reddit? What was it like? With all the posts without context?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It was weird. I actually paid for imgur back in the day, when you could. You would scroll randomly through images which I later learned were popular or Reddit. There was a simple, linear comment chain. The nested comment style of reddit confused me. I was on imgur for like 3 years before I tried reddit.

Imgur says Ive been a member for 13 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Oh yes - I was on Slashdot and I'll throw in Fark. :-)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You now have enough data points to estimate how long until Lemmy turns to shit and you need to migrate again!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It started shit, got way worse and is now kind of hanging in a limbo that has the chance for progression.

The admins seem to be alright though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Maybe something where people don't put shit like /joking because they're petrified of downvotes

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

That's the question, Horatio.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not in a cult, have you tried Linux?
I hear the occasional mention of that here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Hold onto them, they'll probably become collector's items after "the Fall" in 8 years.