The app has always been trash. Idk how people can take using it for long periods of time. When I went back for a bit (during r/place), the deterioration of content was obvious. Don’t take my word for it - even redditors know it’s getting worse. All they have now is the amount of users.

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Yeah. I have. Echo chambers. Hated them.

But the OP seems to be open-minded based on this post. If he is (or at least tries to be), then I don’t see a reason why we should just criticize his politics without just cause. If he eventually proves to be a troll or breaks rules then maybe the admins can ban him.

It’s hard to generalize. There are assholes from all political spectrums, even though there may be more in others.

Edit: if I’m not mistaken, I think it was Voat I checked out last? I really can’t remember but this isn’t the first time I tried leaving reddit. This is the most successful attempt yet, though. I also inadvertently joined a Q group/channel on Telegram. Lmao.

You’re right. The devs know it can be confusing to new guys and are planning to do something about it. Idk what the progress is, though. They seem to be pretty busy making lemmy stable first.

So anyone who doesn’t subscribe to everything you believe in or agree with are liars, ignorant, and hateful? Discussions and debate can be healthy.

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It’s easier to park backwards compared to forward, specially if the space is narrow.

Same. I went back for r/place and to comment a few more “fuck u/spez” in posts, and it’s hilarious how bad the app still is. Still slow. Videos randomly won’t play. There are even times when all you can do when tapping the video is see a still image of it and can’t even get into the post/thread. They just really don’t give a fuck about the app except as a vehicle for ads. Smh.

I agree with most people here. I don’t think it’ll be something major. We’ll just be able to interact with them without having to use that godawful piece of of crap official app. Of course, that’s if instances don’t defederate. Reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don’t think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.

Of course, that’s never going to happen, as you’ve said, because of money.

As an asian, this has been my experience as well. Of course there are exceptions, but most asians I know (not just in my country) usually just speak 2 languages.

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

Iirc, it doesn’t include saved posts/comments yet (correct me if I’m wrong) as well as your original account’s post/comment history.

Yes. It downloads a json file. For me, it went straight to my desktop.

Hope you find the right instance for you. Welcome to lemmy!

1. Of course location is not a guarantee of fast speeds, but you can at least check servers nearby with https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/map. I guess you can check for uptime to have an idea about reliability, but I never really relied on that. Shit happens (vlemmy comes to mind) so it’s hard to gauge an instance’s future reliability/stability. You have the option to start your own instance as well.

2. https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

so what’s stopping rich assholes from buying up points and using their capital to take over communities?

Oh silly boy/girl, that’s exactly why it’s set up that way. :D

JK. Seriously, though, I doubt reddit cares where the funds come from. Pretty short-sighted to me, tbh. When money takes over, I wonder how redditors will react.