Reddit sheds a few million of its active users but the API changes and death of third-party apps don’t completely kill the site because now it’s pretty mainstream and a lot of people actually don’t give a shit about Apollo, RIF, etc.

A few million is plenty to make lemmy a comparable community. As that continues more and more people who didn't move in previous years will move now, because there are enough people here to make it worthwhile.

I think the main difficulty of a site replacing Reddit is that Reddit clones are now a-dime-a-dozen.

Which makes a federated system like lemmy even more competitive.

I've given lemmy a try 3-4 times over the last couple years. And I think that presently it is getting fairly close to a big enough crowd that is very usable and is comparable to what reddit was like in 2008 when I switched from Digg.

To be honest. Lemmy doesn't need to out compete reddit or whoever. It just needs to be competitive. Not having the brain dead mainstream masses over here is not a loss. However, people have always moved to the platform with more liberty when most other aspects are the same. Otherwise reddit would never have been a thing. Most people were over at Digg for a reason. They only moved to reddit when Digg gave them enough reasons to leave.

If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols

I think most of them I'd be using on windows as well. Like blender, gimp, krita, librewolf, libreoffice, thunderbird, virtualbox, etc.. etc.. etc.. Although it was 15 years ago I had switched to mostly open source applications in the years prior to eventually switching to linux entirely.

Then I will definitely go. Their new version is as bad as what digg is now. I could never use that.

Man. That color looks pretty good. What color/brand is that?

Perhaps... but once a certain amount of people left DIGG for reddit back in the day, the whole thing quickly fell apart. I mean, yea, DIGG still exists and I assume there are people who still use it, but I've never met one since I left it about 15 years ago.

Its not like the API issue is the only reason, much less the main reason people want to leave reddit. A lot of people have been wanting to do it for a long time now, it is only that there haven't been any other options with a crowd big enough to hold a conversation beyond only a few people. There is a big chance that that is now changing.

Aloe. The easiest. Can forget to water it for weeks. Doesn't need a large amount of light. And it is a useful crop.

I bought a Kyocera brand of this model over a decade ago and I still use it often as my only coffee grinder. Simple and functional design. Easy to adjust courseness with a simple nut on a screw. Not much here to break other than the rim of the glass jar when I have hit it with the ceramic burr. But the jars are the standard canning jar size and are easy to replace or swap with something bigger.

I spent almost $30 on mine back in the day. But Kyocera is a japanese company. Looks like the product has been cloned by several chinese companies now and is going for almost half what I paid. Of course the quality could be lower than mine, but it is a really simple design, so I don't think I'd worry about it. If I needed another, I'd buy one of these off brand versions.

Also.. I've made grind for everything from french press, cold brew and super fine for espresso with this grinder. I started with a fancy electric one which died in a few years, but never replaced it because spending a couple minutes grinding manually helps wake you up as well.

It doesn't look that unique.

Gimp is a quality program... but I agree that it is hard to relearn when you've gotten use to photoshop for almost 3 decades.

Although Krita is a high quality illustration program. I try harder to motivate my self to learn that.

I once bought a metal wash tub, put it on my porch, added sand, rocks, plants, fish and water... and called it a pond. It is pretty easy to do.

Anything that will hold water for a couple weeks will have tadpoles in it pretty quick.

$100 is a far cry from what I would call "budget"

Not crazy... just stupid.

I just made a more generic community for the topic of FOSS art and design. Please join if interested. I hope it will turn into something.

!fossart@infosec.pub

Thanks. I was looking for something like this.

I just made one at !fossart@infosec.pub ... but your's looks better.

Are you thinking the quotes are not correctly attributed?

I'd rather have a Krita community... or better yet.. a graphics design one. Or at least an adobe one so the rest of the suite can be included. I wonder if we're not making communities too detailed for the current state of the system?

That would definitely be the day I stopped checking in. New reddit looks a lot like what they changed digg into, and is about as useful.

It boggles my mind how few people use hot keys and ALT to navigate menus. Something that has probably been a standard on computers since as long as I have been around (the 70's) ....

There are a ton of them.