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.

Reddit was nothing but an unused digg clone untill digg screwed themselves so everyone just moved over.

The user base on Lemmy is 40k to 60k. It’s held there for the past year. Lemmy did get a big increase compared to the sub 10k a few years ago, but a total of 50k users is still miniscule by comparison.

That’s pretty nonsensical logic.

By that logic, reddit never would have been a thing, because they didn’t have the content or the users, because they were all on digg.

No one migrated en masse to Lemmy because making an account here is too much work for someone to just hop on over and check out.

It wiped and all is new. I made my same email and user name I had there from like 20 years ago. I was a bit sad it didn’t say I had been on there since like 2005. I don’t plan on using the account much, but I’d be damned if some bot or something took my old user name before I got it.

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.

Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they’ll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.

Buddy, you straight up said it wasn’t her first litter based on the fact that she had 5 kittens. That’s dumb. What you said was dumb.

Plenty of cats have like 5 in their first litter. Also, cats can get pregnant after they’re only like 6 months old. Your cat knowledge seems quite made up.

Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy

Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.

Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.

Windscribe has Linux versions. I just haven’t gotten it to work yet. I haven’t given it much time into getting it figured out yet. I like windscribe and buy it yearly, so I’m not planning on switching any time soon.

Only thing I haven’t got to work yet for some reason is my windscribe VPN application. Easy move, really. Mint cinnamon.

“the US” doesn’t want these things. Trump had the lowest 4 year average approval rating on any US president ever his first 4 year term, and he’s currently beating that by a lot this term so far. The people running the US are corrupt, wealthy, grifters. The elections are rigged by being gerrymandered all to hell (or worse) and protests are useless.

I don’t need to see these to make me feel old…

Lots of people. Way too many. Same with the BS TV doctors like dr Oz and dr Phill. Lotta dumb and gullible people out there.

We don’t get gassed on trains.

Australia is a globally poor country (by total in the country. Individually you’re doing well) with a small population surrounded by a lot of water.

If you think things that work in a country like Australia with a mere 27 million people can work the same as a place like the USA with a population of 340 million and land bordered with Mexico and Canada, you’re thinking like a child.

So most of your argument seems to not have much to do with what is being discussed and a lot more to do with pivoting over to our government that’s gotten all fucked up. Shouldn’t you be off standing in a field somewhere?

You’re talking like you’ll be able to live in a country that could magically remove all the guns, keep em out, and never possibly need any against a tyrannical government.

Did you know pepper spray isn’t as effective on some people as others? Even more so if the person is on certain drugs? Did you know that if an assailant is pretty close to you already or the wind is blowing at you, the pepper spray may leave you just as bad off as an attacker, or that pepper spray won’t make a person drop a knife?

Hitting someone with pepper spray is fairly likely to stop an attack. Hitting someone with bullets will stop an attack.