I don't think I've been on IRC since 2006ish. It was the gathering ground for my favorite private torrent tracker at the time. We had internet radio and all kinds of fun stuff.

Before that, like back in the AOL days, there were chat-based filesharing server rooms, where you would get a list of files, then request whatever illicit goods you wanted via chat commands.

I'm not really sure what people use IRC for now, but it's still active.

It's not just ad-based revenue they're losing. It's a monthly subscription people are cancelling.

Not sure why people are downvoting you, since that's exactly what happened. It's Bungiefan_ak, a troll that admins are playing wackamole with, as the person keeps appearing on new instances and pulling the same shit.

Between Beehaw and LemmyWorld, I'm on my third account at this point. What starts as an alt quickly becomes the main under the right circumstances. 😂

Good ol' Bungiefan_ak, creating troll accounts on any instance that'll have them to troll all things piracy and post transphobic and hateful shit wherever they go.

Coming from Fedora/Cinnamon, I went with Tumbleweed/Plasma. As dumb as it sounds, checking out those "X things to do after installing openSUSE Tumbleweed" articles really helps get the ball rolling with adding the Packman repo, using opi for codecs, installing MS Fonts for compatibility, and other basic quality-of-life things like that. YaST does a lot of heavy lifting and hand holding, which can be good or bad depending on your Linux journey, experience, and/or philosophy - but it is very convenient. Honestly, like with anything Linux, you just kind of adjust til you find things you don't like - which, to be honest, my main list of things is less with openSUSE itself and more with KDE Plasma.

I guess that's a long way to say, I've been fine and haven't missed Fedora.

After 3 years on Fedora, the distro that finally made me stop hopping, I moved to openSUSE when I installed a new SSD. I have no idea what the future holds, but I'm good with switching now when convenient rather than later.

Given the dude is wearing a Confederate flag as a fucking cape and possibly did this as some blackface joke, I have a sneaking suspicion they don't care.

The "enterprise" part is you paying for the ability to get support if you need it.

Guess my alt account has now become my main account. Thus, the Lemmy dance continues.

Started on kbin.social and beehaw.org. Realized I liked Lemmy just a little more early on and stuck with Beehaw. But then they started to defederate from larger instances with open signups. So I joined lemmy.world to be part of the bigger picture. Then it got too big and people want to play the DDoS game, so now I've got this alt on lemm.ee as well. We'll see where it goes from here. 😂

The good news is, Republicans aren't really about pursuing wokeness as much anymore. But polling also suggests they're much more in favor of Trump still, somehow, in spite of everything. So that's the other shoe dropping. They're back on their "law and order," unless the law and order is coming down on Trump, it seems. 😂