I was a “Reddit is Fun” user for at least a decade

The impression I had of the US election based on it was completely out of line with reality

I’ve largely switched to Lemmy for the past two years, but this was really the last nail in the coffin for reddit for me too. It’s an enforced echo-chamber and no longer a reliable source of information. It’s hard to notice how bad things are when the politics are leaning in your direction, but once you see it, you can’t unsee it, and it feels gross.

Lemmy is obviously pretty politically homogeneous too, but the difference is that I don’t feel like someone is trying to trick me. Topics and and sources are clearly influenced by the individual posters’ opinions, but it doesn’t feel like there’s a coordinated behind-the-scenes effort to push an agenda, which makes for a better vibe.

You made this? That’s awesome!

It’s been cycling through my PC’s wallpaper folder for years. I always seem to read something new when it pops up again.

Lots of engineers probably got their start by taking random things apart and breaking them as a kid too. Clocks, radios, etc.

It’s the social media equivalent of supporting a bunch of Mom and Pop shops (or opening your own!) vs some hyper-sanitized, corporate monstrosity like Wal-Mart.

And every time I see you grin, I’m such a happy individual

This is the kind of story I was hoping to hear in this thread.

Did you enjoy it at the time, or was there a sense of it not being a great console? I know that we were much more forgiving of janky games back then, so it’s hard to look at it fairly from 2025.

Physicists say it’s purely theoretical right now.