Excellent memories! I used PC Globe so much when I was in elementary school. I didn’t have an encyclopedia, and when some friend handed me that diskette it opened a new world to me. I ran that software so much that I memorized the world map, with capitals and population orders of magnitude.

My geography teacher was so impressed, they didn’t know how a small kid could have memorized the world. I even knew some anthems by playing them on the PC Speaker. Over time we all got Encarta, then Wikipedia, but for a brief amount of time, a floppy disk contained the world for many of us.

Awesome!

Shows go by fads. The 2010s decade was crazy about zombies. Now it’s all about retro.

As a user, I have 100% interest! I still use old.reddit and it’s peak UI design. The feature I miss the most in Lemmy is “show images” to expand all thumbnails. Hopefully it can be deployed at SDF.

I actually used beos as a daily driver for a few months. This was maybe around 2000 or 2001. WinME crashed a lot for me and I couldn’t make linux detect my winmodem. Installed beos and everything was great. Dual booted with windows 98 when I wanted to play StarCraft.

Moved to Linux soon after but I will always remember those great days.

I agree with this interpretation too and it is an excellent simile.

If sdf defederates from big instances I will accept their decision but I will find another server.

I hope it doesn’t. There is always time to defederate if something is going on.

So cool! By the way, is there any way to visit gopher or Gemini links on mobile? I’m using iOS

I agree that it can be problematic to see some weird stuff on All, but defederating is a red button that affects everybody in the instance, and I don’t like that. I enjoy seeing new stuff, and people can use the “block” button liberally.

However it is true that Lemmy still lacks some fine grained controls for users. I am positive that they will be implemented soon, so meanwhile we are living in this very early transition period where random shit can and will appear on our All page and we need to live with it (or use block a lot)

What a beauty!