“I’ve been saving for months to get the Corsair Dominator 64GB CL30 kit,” one beleagured PC builder wrote on Reddit. “It was about $280 when I looked,” said u/RaidriarT, “Fast forward today on PCPartPicker, they want $547 for the same kit? A nearly 100% increase in a couple months?”

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      3 hours ago

      Reddit and much of the internet was like that a long time ago.

      I like to think it came from the higher barrier to entry, kinda like Lemmy has now. One doesn’t just accidentally use Lemmy because it was recommended on their App Store feed. You have to seek it out.