Click the 3 dot button on a post. Select filter. You can filter by user, community, or entire instance.

Look at who you responded to. It’s one of the usernames you pinged. Just saying 🙂

You could turn it into an external hd or install it in new laptop (assuming you have an extra bay).

Exactly - as long as the instance isnt defederated, you should be able to post/comment/upvote/mod in communities that are outside of your home instance.

You are correct about the mod part. I’m a mod on a community outside of lemmy.world. Haven’t noticed any missing features.

This is a very good perspective. I haven’t been on Reddit since the blackout started. Probably would have gone back as well but the AMA comments were the final straw for me.

Same - I keep getting a verification expired notification but the page never loads.

Well, sounds like its time to change it from two days to indefinite. Which it should have been from the get-go.

You could try the Wayback Machine

Don’t delete it just yet, the app developer mentioned there is a chance he updates the API and app to work with Lemmy.

Do you live near a Microcenter? If so, I would recommend checking out their CPU/Motherboard combo deals.
As a few other people have added, PC Partpicker is great for compatibility. Best of luck and feel free to ask questions as you go!

I had to move Sync off the homepage of my phone to avoid the muscle memory of just clicking it mindlessly. I have caught myself once or twice wanting to type it into the URL.

Time will help that at least. The reason google links to reddit is there were great discussions there. With time lemmy (or another federated instance) will likely take its place.
I went to results for reddit because I could see people interacting about the question. This looks to have that same allure.