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  • IKR? It’s way more fun to boot to the bios\uefi, adjust their ram and CPU clock speeds way down, then lock the changes behind a security password and just see how long it takes your kid to figure out what the hell is going on with their PC and how they can fix it.





  • You can browse digg and reddit without an account.

    I agree with some quality over quantity, but we really need a bigger base than 50k to get more people on. With only 50k there’s pretty much no user base for any instances\topics that aren’t very popular.

    For instance, there’s no user base for an instance about yo-yo’s here. But reddit is so big that \throwers has a subscriber count as large as the entire user base of Lemmy. We don’t need 50,000,000 people here, but having a couple million would make a world of difference.




  • If digg opened up api calls (no idea what they’re at on this right now) and has better implementation for keeping out bots with fewer ads; all the sheep will enjoy being a part of a mass exodus.

    It was less bad on digg around 2010 or so when everyone bailed from there to reddit, than what reddit currently is right now.

    It’s still stupid easy to make an account and create a sub. I’ve been on the internet since no one owned a cell phone and a modem gave you less than 3KB\s speeds. I’ve watched a lot of .coms that seemed unstoppable become worthless in a manner of a few months. If a few million people decide to head over to digg, the other 40 million will happily follow. It will be fun for them to do. It happening is anyone’s guess.

    There was a time when aol owned the internet, dogpile was the greatest search engine, Yahoo was the defacto email provider, Craigslist was the only and best way to make local sales, and MySpace was where you put yourself up at on the internet.




  • Digg screwed up by doing what reddit had done starting a few years back, while there was an easy and available alternative to go over to.

    Now digg is the easy alternative to go over to, but it won’t work as well. At least not for long. The people who own digg are venture capitalist firms. It’s sole existence is to monetize the hell out of the platform.

    Meanwhile, Lemmy treads water with a bit too few members because the learning curve is a bit steeper to get started.






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    You obviously don’t have a debit card. It’s not “a permutation” of a credit card and they don’t come from visa or MasterCard. You’re talking about a credit line through your bank. I own a debit card. From my bank. With only my bank as the issuer. It takes money directly from my bank account when I use it. No creditor involved. It’s a money transfer straight from my bank account to the retailer I use it at. Millions of people have them.