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I've basically been switching between first-year rates with Comcast targeting around $50-60/month for a few years now. My current plan is 400/10 for $55/month. Not bad, not great. The unfortunate thing is that AT&T gave up on fiber in my area and Google and municipal fiber efforts also stalled several years ago not too far from where I live. So what does AT&T offer in my area? A pathetic 25 Mbps down for the same $55/month base and then there's taxes as well, whereas I pay exactly $55.00 to Comcast. That effectively makes Comcast the only game in town, which is not ideal, but it's also not like living out in the sticks either. Gigabit down is available for $70/month and 2 Gbps for $120/month. The problem with them is obviously going to be the comically asynchronous upload speeds and the data cap.

I echo UltraMega on the resurgence bit. What resurgence? I flirted with eGPU setups in the ExpressCard days when the entire concept was conceived in a Notebook Review forum thread, before Thunderbolt became the external port of choice. I never had a working implementation of one because I'm pretty sure the ExpressCard port in my old Lenovo ThinkPad T500 was defective. It had occasional dropouts with my ExpressCard CompactFlash adapter, never mind a GeForce GTX 560. By the time I eventually upgraded to a ThinkPad W520, its GPU was sufficient enough to run the couch co-op games I wanted to play in the family room at the time. While it'll be easier than ever to run an eGPU now, if you're serious enough about gaming, you probably wouldn't have a laptop or NUC-sized rig as your primary machine anyway. My use case back then was not having big enough screens or the right entertainment room setup for my desktop (clearly no longer an issue) and being very particular about features on my laptop that I wasn't willing to move off of a ThinkPad back then. I've since relented on that because these days, I primarily use a laptop to watch YouTube videos while I'm in the kitchen.

At least for the text, Windows has a ClearType tuning tool that should be able to accomodate BGR subpixel layouts. That's my understanding of that setting anyway. I've never used it, so I don't know how well it works and I don't know if that will address the greater problem of eyestrain.

I feel like more info might be needed. What model monitors do you have now, how long have you had them, and do they have a reputation for poor text clarity? No clue here about the subpixel layout's potential effects on text sharpness, and I have to admit I was completely confused because sRGB is a color space, not a subpixel layout. It's RGB vs. BGR, and I've only ever owned RGB monitors, so I have no point of reference for comparison. There are Windows apps/settings that should address that though. I wouldn't rule out physiological changes as a possible cause of the eyestrain either. I'd actually consider that a primary culprit with how you described having prolonged blurry vision and eye irritation.

The only things that iPhones unequivocally do better are a result of their proprietary and/or closed ecosystems that Apple strongarms consumers into using (or get shamed by their peers into using) through raw unit sales. I'm talking about the likes of iMessage, FaceTime, and AirDrop. That's anti-consumer abuse of their market position. It's no wonder Nvidia is looking to Apple's business model as their inspiration for the GPU market. I'll leave the "advanced civilization" nonsense for another day millennium because there's so much presumption and projection going on there that I wouldn't even know where to start. It's a damn phone, not nuclear fusion. $325 mint condition LG V60 (2020) purchased in May 2022 here. I'd rather buy a mint condition Pioneer DEX-P99RS (just give me another year or two, because I very well might) and not come remotely close to using it to its full capabilities rather than doing the same with a brand new flagship phone.

The idea of what it means to "be into tech" is entirely subjective. There are Apple cultists (not the regular users) who would claim to be into tech but they never venture outside of MacRumors. I've mentioned before that I had a former coworker who was "into tech" and a huge HP and Samsung superfan, but wasn't bright enough to realize that the one time it makes complete sense to choose Samsung over HP when they have any competing products (SSDs), he completely screwed the pooch. This was in the SATA 2.5" SSD heyday when Samsung 8x0 Pro SSDs had no equal. Everyone has blind spots. Not everyone will own up to them. Back to the topic, aside from being better than the soft/paper launches that other companies do, these Apple product release announcements are almost always fluff. The only reason I'm even aware of this one is the big deal about the iPhone moving from Lightning to USB-C because it's been discussed everywhere. Thank EU.

As someone in the user experience field but who is also extremely technical, I deal with these conflicting interests on a personal level regularly. My solution is to be familiar with Apple's software ecosystem out of necessity, but otherwise only own their most valuable product and nothing else: their stock. Apple doesn't focus on cutting-edge hardware. Their focus has always been more oriented toward user experience. There are parts that I agree with and parts that I don't, but it largely appears to revolve around reducing the cognitive burden and technical jargon from the hardware that they want people to incorporate into their daily lives. A large part of it is obviously for their own profits, but there is also an effort to demystify technology because your average user doesn't care about the details. Most people just want a product to work because they're not going to spend the time to configure something. The most configuration that a lot of people can handle is setting the darkness of their toasted bread. If that means taking away their ability to choose, so be it. There aren't enough people in the population who care versus those that just want to get on with their daily lives. In reference to the OP, Samsung is a copycat F-boi. I have never owned a Galaxy phone and I don't intend to, especially now. If it wasn't for them trying to copy Apple at every turn one release after lambasting them in ads, we might still have a number of features available on flagship Android phones. Needless to say, screw Samsung and their spineless hypocrisy.

None of the B650E Strix boards have it. The X670E-E and X670E-F do. See column W in this spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1NQHkDEcgDPm34Mns3C93K6SJoBnua-x9O-y_6hv8sPs/edit#gid=513674149 The B650E Taichi Lite is in a class of its own. The Gigabyte Aorus B650E boards with external BCLK, including the one you mentioned, are almost impossible to find. Current generation Gigabyte boards in general for both AMD and Intel have been scarce and some have to be imported from Hong Kong or China. I haven't paid any attention to what's been going on with them aside from their recent website and motherboard backdoor security issues, but it's like they're quietly exiting the western market while maintaining the facade of still being a major player.

I've heard good things about Epson EcoTank printers if you need the fine detail and rich color photo quality that an inkjet can deliver. For anything else, laser or LED is the way to go. I print things so rarely these days that it makes no sense for me to bother with inkjets anymore. I most frequently print shipping labels, and even that only happens perhaps once a month on average. If I have photos to print on paper, sending them to my local Walgreens is more economical and I don't need to be the one fine-tuning printer settings and wasting ink and paper with test prints. HP is trying to prop up a dying sector of the computer peripherals market. We simply don't print stuff like we used to and they need to adapt rather than antagonize those who still need all-in-one printers for daily use. Those consumers will have other options if you try to screw them. The bean counters at HP haven't learned a thing from every other DRM scheme that has failed miserably, and they don't even have the market position to strongarm their customers into their walled garden. If you don't want to get dunked on by your device sales, stop offering the hardware at $100. There is too much going on inside of that box for it to be worth so little, no matter how far economies of scale and advancement of technology have taken us in the last two decades. My old DeskJet 560C cost, what, probably $500-600 in 1995? A LaserJet 4 retailed for around $2000 back in its day. ERROR: The request could not be satisfied WWW.CONSUMERREPORTS.ORG

That's my dream B650E board if my Asus B650E-F makes any further difficult to resolve VRM chirping noises next time it tries to step down from a heavy load or I change the standard environmental operating conditions of my rig. The Taichi Lite completely embarrasses the B650E-F in every way at the same price point and Asus should be ashamed.

My second and third printers were the HP DeskJet 560C and 895Cxi. Even then, ink seemed kind of pricey, but that was before the days of ink DRM. I honestly don't remember what led me to get rid of the 895Cxi (probably high ink prices), but I do remember buying OEM HP ink cartridges that had banding and spotty output if they were "expired". After getting 3-4 of them in a row, I took a hammer to the last one of those out of spite and somehow, I still have a photo of it from 2005 saved on my hard drive. I was done with HP after that and done with inkjet printers altogether one printer later (a Canon that pissed away excessive ink every startup and eventually threw me a ridiculous printhead error where a replacement would have, in car insurance terms, totaled the printer). Inkjets suck in general. As for HP, it's not the 1990s anymore which was when they last made a good printer, laser or inkjet. I don't think anything they've made (or rebadged) in the last 20 years was worth owning compared to their competition because of their blatantly anti-consumer tactics. I'm not remotely surprised they would pull this crap with an all-in-one printer when not using a printing function. It's been in their DNA for decades. I'm pretty sure they pioneered ink DRM. Side note: I remember years ago a former coworker was an HP superfan (yeah, they exist) and an even bigger Samsung superfan. He bought an HP for his first SSD, and all I could think was, "You bought an HP SSD instead of a Samsung? WTH is wrong with you?"

Microsoft Natural Keyboard (1.0) This is actually my second Natural Keyboard after my first one yellowed from being under a halogen desk lamp for years and the keycap printings wore out. I finally replaced it after its spacebar broke (IIRC). Anyway, I've had this specific unit since 2017. I don't know the manufacture date on this one, but this Natural Keyboard model debuted in 1994 and had a 4-year run. I'm only learning now that it was manufactured by Keytronic, which may be why this one feels so different from subsequent Microsoft ergonomic keyboards. As far as the layout, I've gotten so used to this split-key layout over the years that I never seriously considered changing it up. I haven't paid much attention to keyboards since getting the second of these, but while shopping to replace the first one, I did look into mechanical gaming keyboards which were more expensive than what I wanted to pay at the time. I also followed the evolution of Microsoft ergonomic keyboards and all the subsequent versions of their Natural Keyboard had some dealbreaker in terms of key layout, feel, or build quality, which is why I also didn't get a newer model.

Fixed that for myself since I wasn't aware how insanely expensive pre-built Intel NUCs already were because I got a brand new barebones 8th gen NUC in 2021 as a home media server/future NVR for $300 and thought that wasn't too bad. If I were to do it over again today, I'd get a barebones ASRock DeskMini X300W plus a Ryzen 5 5600G that would blow away any NUC you could buy new or used for $300. I didn't consider gaming NUCs because why would anyone? Right on cue, now everyone in the hardware news universe is citing this brief article from Bits and Chips about a potential ROG NUC. https://www.bitsandchips.it/english-news/asus-is-studying-the-heir-of-the-intel-nuc-13-extreme

The draw with the Five Guys' fries is the quantity they give you because they fill the paper cup and then dump another cupful in the bag, so ordering anything more than the smallest size fries would have you eating potatoes for half an hour. Apart from that, their fries tend to be soggy with oil and I don't really like them if they're not Cajun style because the regular unseasoned ones were kind of bland. I used to go to Five Guys for a decent fast burger, but their prices got so expensive that I haven't been there in years now. There are also better burger spots in my town that I've since discovered, with one of them being a local butcher that's both the best and cheapest option of them all.

That's $450 USD worth of fans if they were all new, so that's a great deal. You could resell the ones you don't use at almost the original retail price and make a small profit, or perhaps you do have a use for them all, which would also be great. Hopefully there aren't any issues with them. I had a Silent Wings 4 120mm (non-Pro) that Be Quiet replaced under warranty because it was making a horrendous squealing noise a couple of months after I installed it, but overall, I like the Silent Wings 4 family of fans. I found them to have the best balance of static pressure and noise levels at low RPMs for my build.

In before Asus ROG NUCs for $1000 and bonus VRM coil whine. Who says no? Not Asus.

I cleaned up the room a bit to get some photos of the office/gaming space as well as a few specific A/V components. There are still some peripherals and cables laying around connected to the old rig in the white Montech case next to the console table since I still haven't migrated all my old Steam game installations and saved games/records from it. Whenever I get that done, all that extra cable, peripheral, and case clutter will go away. I have a perfectly sized floating mount, magnetic, tempered glass whiteboard on the wall above the sofa. It's exactly the width between the wall outlet plates. I knew I had to buy it despite being the most expensive tempered glass whiteboard available for sale. I also got a couple of roller storage bins to put under the sofa for convenience and decluttering. The whiteboard and sofa were my first two big purchases for this room in March 2021 when I started planning my home office in the midst of the pandemic. The colors in the room were very intentional once I realized I could pull it off. For the fabrics, it started with the sofa. Then came the window curtains on the other side of the room. I later found the stools next to the desk with a similarly matching fabric on Overstock, and the bottom shelf on those was a huge selling point too. When it came to finding some organizers for the console table shelf, when I saw those navy velvet baskets with the rope handles, there was no way I wasn't going to buy them. After that came the Steelcase Leap office chair which I've mentioned in other threads. Even that door stopper is a heavy ball wound with navy-colored rope, not to be confused for the actual mini basketball that's beside the Montech case. I've had this desk since 2003. It's not that great ergonomically nor very noteworthy since it's an inexpensive Bush furniture desk from one of the big box office stores, but it's sufficiently sturdy. I've been generally careful with it and it's survived two moves. it worked out well for this room because of the two attic access doors that would have been very annoying to position furniture around otherwise. The golden oak color led me to picking out the industrial and vaguely steampunk-styled ceiling fan, the console table, and also played a factor in getting the bamboo chair mat recently over getting another polycarbonate chair mat that would crack in another 3-5 years. An unintended bonus of the the bamboo mat is that it also goes well with the basketball hoop. They're nowhere near each other in the room and I can't really shoot the ball from anywhere on the mat other than the front corner because of the ceiling fan, but it ties the room together better than the Dude's rug. Above are all the black glass and piano black surfaces for the speakers, speaker stands, and subwoofer. The microfiber cloth is there so my footprints aren't all over the top of the subwoofer since I also use it as a footrest. My monitor stand's base is also black glass, which I'll go over below. The monitor stand is from my old Dell 2707WFP monitor years ago. I had to assemble a custom mount to adapt it to the 38" LG UltraGear monitor and set the bottom edge of the monitor to be perfectly aligned with the bottom edge of the 55" Samsung QN85A TV. I used long M4 screws, washers, and spacers to attach the monitor to slotted mending plates to allow for extra vertical height adjustment beyond the monitor arm's range, then used M4 bolts, nuts, and spacers to attach the mending plates to the cantilevered arm. The monitor arm base and sides being silver/chrome do a really nice job of reflecting the ARGB light ring from the back of the UltraGear monitor, adding to the ambient light effect. The glass stand is such a beautiful showpiece that, even beyond keeping it to match the aesthetic I wanted, I wouldn't have discarded it regardless after the 2707WFP became obsolete. It's more than a part of the monitor. It's closer to a piece of A/V furniture. Dell was on something back in 2007-08 putting this much effort into the monitor presentation for the 2707WFP and 3008WFP considering that these days, you often get a flimsy plastic stand with no panning and limited tilt and vertical adjustments. This stand even has a user-adjustable tensioner screw to tweak the arm's tension for raising/lowering the display. The wall mount for the TV is a dual-arm mount with a 36" max wall extension, which was one of the longest I found since many of them stopped at 19-20". This unit had the most versatile mounting options among all the mounts I looked at, and the backplate hole spacing gave me some offset options across two wall studs. I then mounted the TV onto it offset a bit more so the TV would be horizontally centered on the wall with the arms collapsed. For reference, the wire concealer is dead center along the wall. These days, I usually keep the mount extended to use the TV as a second monitor, but it goes against the wall to watch movies, play controller-based games, or access the upper attic door. This is perhaps my favorite original decorating idea. When the house was built, I had the builder install a cabinet knob for the attic door handle because I didn't have any other ideas back then. After all, who would? Nobody thinks about this stuff. I've seen the string and plastic pull handle that almost everyone has (and doesn't give a second thought about), and I've seen an eye hook on the door that used a wooden table/chair leg with a stainless hook screwed in as a pull handle. I wanted to do something more creative. As a nod to being a casual aviation enthusiast, this is a NAS1756-12 spec coated nylon canvas Remove Before Flight streamer attached to a carabiner attached to a cabinet pull ring on the door. At a later date after my upstairs Ethernet project is done, I'll probably make another post about some of the considerations for wiring up this room as well as show the fourth wall.

The 30 and 40-series reference boards have some solid engineering in their coolers unlike previous generations. That means that there's less room for an AIB partner to build a better solution while still charging a tolerable premium for their solution over the reference model. Nvidia is basically directly competing with the AIBs now. The value proposition for an AIB isn't what it used to be, and that's presumably partly why EVGA said screw it rather than get squeezed or fleece their customers. As for Asus, if there is any company in this space that is guilty of applying a brand tax to their products a la Apple, it's them. Whether it's motherboards or GPUs, Asus system components consistently deliver less for your money. I have an indifference-hate relationship with my ROG Strix AM5 motherboard and knowing what I know now, I would not consider the Micro Center bundle savings a sufficient tradeoff for having to own an Asus system component.

While I'm not planning to buy a replacement laptop anytime soon, this looks very intriguing. It looks like Framework has already done well with their Laptop 13, so they're already succeeding where others have failed (Alienware Area-51m R1). I might be looking at this 16" Framework in a few years. Along with the recent EU law on user-serviceable batteries, things are beginning to look good again for consumers in the portable electronics space.

With such a wide budget and perhaps not a proportionate amount of time, I guess the real questions are: How are you going to use your speakers? When and what is the use case of them over the headphones? What are you expecting versus your headphone setup? What headphones do you currently use? What's your actual budget? What justifies settling at $150, going up to $400, and then over all the way up to $1200? You could call this snobbery (and I could explain in another post at another time), but I think the Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 is overrated unless you really just want to escape with a PC speaker system in a box for $150 or less, in which case, you may as well go full budget and buy a used set for $80 or less and be done with it. That'll also give you a buffer for replacement parts since you'll probably need them sooner or later. The thing is, they're great for computer speakers, but all the reviews you read by people who don't review audio make the ProMedia 2.1 out to be something that it's not. They have a signature boomy bass and hollow mid-range sound that make music listening...unremarkable, and the reliability of the set has always been a mixed bag throughout all of its iterations over the past 20+ years. If you do a quick search on eBay, you'll find about as many parted out systems and components as complete functioning ones. Pook's got the formula for a budget setup. The same basic formula has been followed for about two decades with different Class T amp/speaker/sub combinations, but it'll allow you to do much better than the Klipsch ProMedia for $150.

Since I primarily listen to music, sometimes even while playing some games, I've never seriously looked at setting up more than a 2.1 in front of my computer. Given the challenges of setting up surround sound and running and hiding speaker wires, I'd rather have a strong 2.1 than a untidy surround setup. If you're not using the 5.1 surround setup of those Creative speakers now, you really won't miss it after you upgrade your speakers to something decent. HDMI or TOSLINK in to a receiver is probably the easiest solution if you have a place to put one. Otherwise, it's not lost on me that a good chunk of the expense for a desktop-friendly dedicated audio setup is in trying to make the hardware compact. A Schiit Stack of a Magni+ and Modi+ would get the job done and look good for headphone and speaker switching for relatively cheap. From what I've read, the Magni+ would also be an upgrade over the Objective 2. You'd have to run a sub with a speaker-level input with this combo though.

The rabbit hole is very, very deep. Your options are only limited by your creativity and your budget. I spent about $750 between bookshelf speakers, a subwoofer, a DAC, and an amplifier. I think the speakers were about $200. It's been about 12 years since I bought them so I don't recall exactly. The speaker options are seemingly endless if you choose to supply your own power. Because I rarely use headphones with my rig, I didn't prioritize routing headphone audio through the DAC, although I certainly could have when I was shopping for the hardware. I'm okay with onboard sound driving front panel headphone audio, but otherwise I'd probably have spent even more on my DAC and gotten the SMSL M500 MKⅢ. However, I still have an XtremPro X1-1 USB DAC that I can use if I need a boost over onboard. You could get away with a receiver if space isn't a concern. I couldn't put one on my desk and still have room for anything else.

Reddit got way too big to be trusted and their leadership has been extremely sus for years now. As a forum owner myself, I never saw a ton of user value in aggregator communities like Reddit (or Digg, or Fark, or Slashdot). They were good for breaking news, but the quality of discussion was never all that great. Hobbyist discussions on those platforms were useful, but knowing what Google has become, they would have been well-indexed anyway even if they were scattered across other forums instead of largely being on Reddit. At least in this hobby, there are still so many PC tech forums out there that Reddit was far from the only game in town. I've ditched smaller forums due to having no confidence in the owner(s) (I'm not even referring to OCN here, but you could toss them in the same bucket as well). If I don't believe in what you're doing or trying to do, I'm not going to participate in your effort to make a name for yourself when I don't think you deserve it. Social media has never been profitable unless you monetize the data. It's the same thing that Facebook dealt with but largely overcame, and it's the same thing Twitter is battling now with a more dubious outcome and a megalomaniac at the helm. At the end of the day though, I can't blame the users for not knowing how it all works and not having an exit strategy prepared. However, that doesn't excuse the disingenuous and anti-consumer actions of a company's leadership because they don't get to the position they're in without their userbase.

Some assorted updates: Be Quiet Screaming Banshee 4 120mm PWM fan One of the Be Quiet Slient Wings 4 120mm PWM fans on my heatsink started making some noise a few weeks ago. It took me a moment to track down where the noise was coming from, and then which CPU fan was making the noise. I swapped my CPU fans with my intake fans and then confirmed the specific fan that was howling like the bearing was shot. Be Quiet's RMA advance replacement process was nice and straightforward, but I had to live with an intake fan that could vary from a low-level ticking noise to a screaming banshee for nearly two weeks. It wasn't quite as bad as I'm making it seem, and I could have disconnected it if it was always in banshee mode, but the potential was always there. I hate creating e-waste per Be Quiet's RMA instructions, but I also hate this fan in particular for the aural torture it created for the last couple of weeks. Room temperature I underestimated the heat situation. The room consistently gets up to 86 °F after a session of gaming with the upstairs thermostat set to 76-78 °F, but the thermostat is in my bedroom on the opposite end of the floor, and I don't need the rest of the floor to be any cooler. The old rig didn't dump this much heat into the room, partly due to the airflow within the case being worse. Since I had this in mind from the early days of buying my house, I'm revisiting the idea of zoning the upstairs HVAC for each bedroom and now I'm planning to go forward with it. While a mini split system would have a lot of benefits, I just don't like the tacked-on aesthetics of them, so I'm going the expensive route. (That said, a mini split would be my only consideration for a garage HVAC project, but that's what I call a pure luxury home upgrade.) The only real consideration I need to make is how to order the different attic projects I have in mind between the zoned HVAC, whole-house Ethernet wiring, and enhanced attic insulation with extra blown insulation and radiant barrier installation on the rafters. I'm hiring contractors for all of these, by the way. I've long been done with trying to do major projects like these myself. Motherboard VRM noise For the first time since my previous post, the VRM chirping/grinding noise picked up at a significant volume last night. The only correlation I can make at the moment is that the noise really picks up if the motherboard probe listed in HWiNFO is close to 40 °C and trying to step down to a lower power state. Usually, it stays below 35 °C if I haven't been gaming. This appears to be a known issue now with numerous Asus motherboards with the AMD 600 series of chipsets. During my reading, I came across this moderator's reply on the ROG Forum, and it is the most idiotic, tone-deaf suggestion I've ever seen on a manufacturer forum. Re: ROG STRIX B650E-I: Coil whine? - Page 4 - Republic of Gamers Forum - 895136 ROG-FORUM.ASUS.COM Hello karakartal3, Once you get the motherboard installed in the case, you likely won't hear it with the case fans going and the side panel on... Yeah, let me go ahead and buy a PSU that costs more than the motherboard and maybe that will, but most likely won't fix the issue. FOH. Since motherboard swaps aren't as much of a pain in the ass with Windows 10 as it was with 7 or earlier, I may just accelerate my upgrade cycle if the issue persists and I can't find the golden BIOS settings that will silence it without compromising performance or low power idle capabilities. To be honest though, it's practically been a nonissue aside from last night ever since I used a manual offset to lower the vSOC voltage to 1.20V last month. My next motherboard is almost certainly going to be an ASRock or an MSI or anything but Asus or Gigabyte. It's funny that Gigabyte seems to be the least competent of the major motherboard manufacturers, and yet they still employ rootkit-style BIOS-injected malware software suite installs a la Asus and Armoury Crate. What the hell Gigabyte, you don't even have the legions of blind loyalists like Asus does to get away with that kind of BS. Go blow up some more power supplies and get lost. Case painting I'll finally respray the top of the case later this month before buffing the top and the one side I didn't finish buffing years ago to the glossy smooth finish I want. I've been wanting to take pictures of the finished product forever and it frustrates me to keep putting progress of this project on hold, but other priorities are getting in the way of both this and the home improvement projects.

I don't have a Reddit account and never wanted one, but I've been following this story since there is a lot of useful information there, especially for our hobby since we often rely on people's experiences with a product or troubleshooting. The 2-day blackout is dumb, but a lot of Reddit users are all about slacktivism and virtue signaling. The company's leadership is tone deaf and anti-consumer, and as a platform, they deserve to die. Meaningful change would involve cutting out Reddit completely and finding a new platform, which is obviously a very relatable concept to many of us here. In the case of migrating off Reddit though, that would introduce a number of short-term difficulties, especially for some of their niche communities. Lemmy has been gaining some attention as a decentralized Reddit-style platform. It is what Mastodon is to Twitter. Personally, I hope it takes off, but there will be some headwinds, including people who will go right back to Reddit tomorrow. We've seen this before with Voat when Reddit had its last major controversy, and Voat eventually turned into its own dumpster fire. From what I can gather, it seems the largest Lemmy node, lemmy.ml, is the ideological polar opposite of Voat, yet probably still a dumpster fire as far as I'm concerned. Here is a list of Lemmy nodes, with the most trending one that is open to registration being lemmy.world. the federation - a statistics hub THE-FEDERATION.INFO Node list and statistics for The Federation and Fediverse Anyway, it takes some unabashed greed and delusion to make VerticalScope look even semi-respectable. Congrats on the dubious honor, Reddit.