It will be like the old forums, except in a cumbersome format sprinkled with unnecessary Javascript that splits the comment thread in half instead of displaying them in full. Future historians will fucking love that.

I’m sure they intentionally made it so people get frustrated and leave instead.

What’s the benefit of having a separate DNS host? I’m using porkbun and had to mess around with its dns records to configure my email hosting. Does having separate service mean I don’t have to do this all over again If I switched registrars?

I still mourn the death of Presto-days Opera.

Pushing for bloated web apps instead of having optimized and perfectly functional websites was what killed it for me.

I guess there’s a market for… skin contact?

I would love to have domain agnostic URL for lemmy posts. It’s not easy to copy and paste from mobile and having multiple redundant URLs like instance.tld/post/12345 and another.tld/post/98765 leads to a discoverability problem.

They have huge bills to pay already. It can totally lead to enshittification.

laugh tracks

Linux distros have gotten friendlier and with better HW and SW support but PC makers and already established ecosystem have also made customizing more difficult. This means end users are increasingly discouraged to do anything that is not “authorized”, further driving away adoption of alternatives.