I'm done with Reddit. This latest debacle prompted me to look into Reddit's history, had no idea before. What an awful company. Also a community not subject to corporate interest is better for everyone. Anyway, I'm not going back there so if the sub gets closed down, no skin off my nose. Yeah do what you will.
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joined 1 year ago
Guess Reddit is going to be taken over by alt-right trolls too.
Haha, that worked for Fox News in the USA.
Lots of “you don’t understand, Reddit is a COMPANY!
That's the problem, corporate interest. We'd all be better served by a community open source platform like the Fediverse, politics aside.
Not joking, I've looked into VMs myself and most are about twice that rate.
Man that -is- cheap, 80 USD a year, what a deal.
Though honestly the more I see about Reddit, the more glad I am to get away from them. I usually don't care much about politics especially when it comes to entertainment and media, but I just watched a video that was rather shocking about the antics that go on there.
Yeah the internet is abuzz with Spez's antics, don't expect that to die down for a while. If they follow through with the deadline it will be even worse.
Still we can add other stuff, maybe drown out the roar a bit. Can always use more communities, I have some good ones now, but I still need a couple I'm lacking.
someone told me that we can see stuff from Beehaw, but Beehaw can’t see stuff from us.
Admins of an instance can block other instances. If you scroll to the bottom of the front page on your instance you see an "Instances" link that shows which are linked and which are blocked. The instance you log into may have a few blocked, but most should be linked.
Evidently Beehaw has decided not to participate with a good number of outside instances. This is a toxic approach and defeats the whole point of the Fediverse. They have the right to operate how they want, but they should be avoided in protest.
Join a Lemmy instance in your country for best internet performance. Here's a list that provides a sort on country; https://the-federation.info/platform/73
It's like a mass exodus. I read on one instance how their workload jumped twenty times almost overnight. They'll get it sorted out I'm sure. With more subscribers comes more opportunity for help. Just going to be some lag there.
Same for me, grew up on message boards in the 90's. Used classic internet forums for a long time. Then finally Reddit. Ready to move on to the Fediverse now. Totally has that 90's feel of Usenet groups, old is new again.
Reddit refugee here. I've had Lemmy bookmarked for some time, but I'm now getting active, have an instance, subscribed to some communities. I think I'll be happy to leave Reddit behind, I mean really, FOSS versus corporate BS.
I'm using fastmail.com as my email provider in the USA. They're a small company based out of Australia with global servers. They pride themselves on privacy and security. Been using them for several years now. They're not the cheapest game in town, but they have an impressive feature set. They actually host a domain and web site for me that's included with my mid-tier account fees. I have zero complaints with them.
Even paid accounts with companies like Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo do not guarantee privacy. Yahoo has been known to scan email content for targeted advertising. Discovering that is what actually motivated me to use a paid service.
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Yeah the community search on Lemmy leaves a lot to be desired. There's no sort function and I'd like to be able to list them in order of activity. At this point I don't know what to do other than scroll through pages and pages of listings. I'll give those searches a try, very helpful.