I could see a legitimate service being made out of something like an extra private lemmy, or a lemmy with additional features. Sort of like you'll see these suites of services from Proton or Nord. Yeah, i can set up my own SMTP server, even encrypt my data, but it's a lot easier to pay a few bucks to have a reliable service do it.

With federated services eventually becoming mainstream, i wouldn't be surprised to see some companies offering packages that do things like provide additional privacy or larger amounts of storage.

Or like I'd imagine sustainable video hosts will have to monetize somehow just to pay for the storage space.

Or maybe some branch of Operation Mindfuck is converting rich silicon valley cryptobro jackasses into useful idiots to trigger an open source social media revolution.

Any replacement for Discord is going to run into the AIM problem. Even years after nobody was on AOL, AIM remained the biggest instant messenger client simply because it had the most users. A big factor in it losing its dominance, though, was Trillian. Once you could have all your accounts in one place, it kind of made it starkly obvious which ones were redundant. At the same time, it made the barrier for entry feel lower.

Instead of needing different clients for ICQ, AIM, Yahoo, and MSN, you could have it all in one place, packaged with a totally garbage IRC client. So if you had friends on, say, ICQ, there was little reason not to register an account.

This is what we need with Discord. A client that people can migrate to because it's objectively better, which allows them to connect both to Discord and to an open source Discord killer (a Disczilla, if you like). That way nobody has to convince whole ass communities at a time. You can slowly osmosize over as the client gets popular without having to have that critical mass from day 1 to draw people.

Ahhh, okay, that makes sense. I can see where there might be demand for a more efficient layout as you're getting away from looking and poking. Probably a lot easier to get there if you don't have a couple decades and some change of qwerty typing taking up brain space.

Oh! I feel like I'd cramp up with an index mouse, but that's neat!

I love my Ergo, honestly. The programmable buttons are really nice, and i like the horizonal scroll wheel leaning. Plus the angle is a lot more comfortable than their other ball mice.

What's really made a difference for me though is the precision mode button. It's upped my graphic design game in a major way! It honestly feels kind of like having a half-assed tablet as far as the more precise control goes! It's waaay easier to draw with, though if i were doing more freehand stuff (and could draw for shit) obviously a tablet would be better.

They're labeled as Keychron Pros or something like that, but to my understanding they're literally just Gaterons with a different name.

Glad you're liking it! I've fallen in love with mine! Honestly, the sound never gets old! :D

I've got a V6, bought it around a month or so ago as my daily and it's been great. I bought it assembled, and the stock gateron browns it came with were really nicely factory lubed. Same with the stabilizers.

Four layers of electrical tape later and some nice thick ASA keycaps and it sounds amazing! Gives it a unique look without being impractical too! If you're looking to swap your knob out, guitar knobs fit pretty well, though they may be a little more flush with the case on the underside than you'd like unless you sand them down a little first.

In any case, the v6 is a great board. Really solid feeling, and VIA is a really nice workflow changer.

Also, it says that layers 0&1 are for Mac and 2&3 are for Windows, but you can use all four for whatever, that's just the default they're programmed for.

Thumb ball gang! What mouse is that? Have you tried Logitech's MX Ergo? If so, what do you like about yours?

Coley did a pretty detailed review on these if you haven't seen it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UpGKBBu5v9w

Personally I'm not sure how i feel about the sound they make on the way back up, but i bet they feel nice!

How do you get yourself to learn a new keyboard format after years of typing with qwerty?

I've looked at some of these alternate options and i can see how they'd be efficient, but like, i can't see myself unlearning qwerty after decades of typing every day.