Me! I was a huge fan of Kevin Rose due to TechTV and jumped on board as soon as he released it.
Yeah I came in from the TechTV days too.
Sara Lane had a download of the day about the Synergy network kvm thing. “It works for both windows and linux.”
That’s how I ended up installing Linux for the first time… I didn’t know anything about it other that I hated windows and that was something different. 20+ years later I basically haven’t been without a Linux box ever since.
There will never be someone as cool as Kate awkwardly dancing and saying “it’s menus a-poppin today on windows tips”
Leo Laporte was the bomb.
I listen the “Classical Sprouts” podcast with my kids, hosted by Kate Botello. I think they get tired of my saying “I knew of her when she was a dorky co-host of a tech support tv show!”
I was part of the digg migration to Reddit
Sorry, I’ve been hearing about this for some time and I don’t know the story behind it. Can someone please explain the enshittification that happened with digg? How good was it before and how bad was it after?
It was amazing but I was young and it was wonderful to discover. I think people have fond memories for it really.
It’s very similar to Lemmy, if not just the same thing done a different way. I think there were only upvotes (I can Digg it).
For young people discovering Lemmy, as it is now, and discovering Linux subreddits etc, they probably get the same enjoyment/attachment etc.
The redesign of Digg downplayed it’s communities and put mainstream media first (as if Kbins magazine tool was restricted to famous newspapers) and thus it immediately felt like the community had been fractured. Reddit was growing with peoples own blogs and it felt way more community oriented. This is where I think and hope Lemmy will also find its own community.
I went Stumble->Fark->Digg->Reddit->Lemmy. Fuck I’m getting old.
I skipped right past Digg and went from 4chan to Reddit
I was one of a group of power users alongside mrbabyman and a few others that probably collectively amounted to 90% of the frontpage of the site.
Andrew Sorcini. They’re ok for such a massive
