Oh really? Wow! Still 3x more than 8GB though :)

Even cheap SD cards are larger these days. The smallest SSD you can buy in the UK right now is 250GB.

There’s a good reason for that, VPNs are extensively used by bot networks for all kinds of activity. But VPN use by bots is actually coming down slowly as bot networks start to switch to residential mobile networks - it’s impossible to block them and you can cycle connections automatically like you do with VPN when using specialised residential mobile IP providers. So maybe web sites will stop blocking VPNs in a few years.

Lemmy is nowhere near the wealth of information available on Reddit. And if we’re talking about hobbies, then literally no one gives a shit about Lemmy. The whole of the Fediverse has only 50k daily active users, most of them are on Mastodon. Lemmy is just a tiny fraction of those 50k. The main 3D printing sub alone has more active users than the whole Lemmy.

That leads to a situation where knowledgeable people from the industry and hobby leaders don’t post anything here. I’m not even sure many of them even heard of it.

So, if you want some help or to learn something, you either go to specialised forums or to Reddit. Lemmy is for memes and throwing feces at each other. Which is fun.

Bots use VPNs a lot for scrapping and other activities.

Looks pretty meh to me.

Well, to be fair, modern lamplighters in London are not low skilled employees, they’re highly skilled and well paid engineers. So it did work out quite well for them

That moment when MS Paint is more advanced than GIMP, lol.

GIMP… GIMP never changes…

If you can SSH into a remote host, you can git push to it directly from your laptop.

WinSCP is a much better client. Also use WSL2 instead of VM.

It’s a half baked alpha version.

Gardening on Reddit has 7.8m subs, that’s more than the whole Fediverse with all the bots.

Another issue is the quality of people. For example, I’m into kitchen knives. Dr. Larrin posts on Reddit about steels and related metallurgy. Does he post on Lemmy? No. Stroppy Stuff posts on Reddit about strops and sharpening. Does he post on Lemmy? No.

I’m also into mountain biking. Reddit is full of engineers, brand representatives and athletes, none of them is on Lemmy.

No one worth their salt gives a shit about Lemmy, that’s the hard truth. If you want to get quality hobby content - you go to Reddit.

Lemmy is for 15yo kids posting memes and US politics for those who got banned on Reddit. And for some devs to satiate their curiosity.

Normal people don’t give a shit about Lemmy. If you want to dive into hobbies, local news and other fun stuff - go to Reddit :)