old.reddit.com is still kickin it. No talk I've heard of to get rid of it yet. The second it's gone I'm gone.

Honestly if money has to be a part of it I would rather just pay some instance maintainer a monthly/yearly fee.

Kraft Parmesean Cheese. I can't stant even thinking about it. I've never smelled a dead body but I'm assuming that's what it smells like

I definitely think getting interested in the fediverse is a long game. Think the death of Facebook. It was a slow burn between 2016 and 2020, involving lots of different communities moving at different times for different reasons

Really its just devolving into a fascinating experiment in how much momentum it requires people to leave a platform en masse in 2023.

I've seen so many people that want to defederate from Threads because they're scared it will get their personal data somehow. Just goes to show that not a lot of people understand how this technology works yet. The only data threads will see is the stuff you post publicly.

Throwing a stuffed fish down the stairs (I think, there's a couple of really early ones)

The thumbnail looks like a histogram

Really? Feels like a graveyard when I log in. I mean everyone over 65 still uses it and there are a lot of weird holdouts but all my friends moved over to instagram, which is so much worse than facebook ever was IMO

Wow I guess I just kind of blocked it out of my memory haha. It for sure was on old in 2017 because old was still new at that point

Male who remembers getting Chex Quest on CD-ROM in a cereal box

I started just taping over the lights of anything in my bedroom. I figure if it also makes a goofy noise when it turns on, thats how I know its frickin' on.

I searched it 100% thinking that I wouldn't show up, but what do you know! I can claim $96

Well nothing probably. I think Instagram collects as much as threads does. My point was just that if you're only on lemmy or mastodon or whatever, you won't have to worry about the data they're collecting from their own users.

Thanks, this is definitely helpful to newcomers I think

Hands down favorite taco bell

I still used instagram because I'm basically forced to. It's the only platform that (almost) all my IRL friends are on. It's a terrible platform for friends though. All people ever do now is send me stupid fucking reels. Honestly my hot take is that facebook was never as bas as Instagram currently is, but people will never leave.

I think there's a sweet spot for how many other resources are out there. JavaScript GPT answers are pretty good. But when you get to a less popular language like Elixir not so much

The secret sauce though is that one out of every 3 reels is ragebait. just a different kind that you cant get away from because you're so addicted to the scroll feature