After installing an SSD and a couple of hours of clean-up, it was as fast as new. I guess with proper maintenance it can be good enough.

The reason people say Windows is “crap” isn’t the performance, it’s the ads.

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Yesterday I caught you spreading disinformation to promote a for-profit social media company. Today you’re here with disinformation about Lemmy.

Privacy is a spectrum. But when 99.99% of userdata is publicly available no responsible person could call that service “private”.

I’m going to be THAT guy and point out that while Piefed and Lemmy instances have much better incentive structures to be good to their users they are very much NOT private and on the default instance setup nearly all data collected is publicly available.

EDIT: Many people in this comment section don’t seem to be understanding that “Lemmy” is not one website like Reddit. Each instance is it’s own thing entirely and there is ZERO guarantee than a given instance isn’t using hidden trackers. This is NOT a defense of Reddit or a criticim of Lemmy software which is very good. But it is a fact and you should be wary of the motivations of anyone claiming that “Lemmy” is private or similar.

Ha! That’s on me for not reading until the end, thanks for that.

That’s a good quote, I know she didn’t mean it this way, but it made me think of LLM chatbots. They have no substance beyond their power to convince. They’re basically pure marketing machines.

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I agree, atomic distos have allowed me to make the switch and are better and easier than windows and even macos.

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No, you can’t. You can have a custom domain (“PDS” is the term they invented for this) but it still relies on bluesky’s servers.

Don’t let them distract with with the “whattabout matrix”. The Matrix Foundation is not a social media company, and furthermore it’s a nonprofit.

Bluesky is not decentralized.

You are correct. The term is called “openwashing”. Now and then bluesky employees cultists will come on Lemmy and mastodon and try to LARP that their for-profit company has our best interests in mind.

BlueSky is centralized.

It comes from this 2019 post by Mike Masnick.

Unfortunately the atprotocol is more like Profits > People > Platforms