I am far more interactive on here. I was almost exclusively a lurker on Reddit.

There are places like that, even with YouTube, but you usually have to pay rather than use the ad-supported free product. (Assuming ad blockers don’t work well any longer)

I think I have like 5 Lemmy apps installed, including the voyager web app, but I keep coming back to Memmy.

No argument here. The wasteful and dangerous vehicles are just a minor symptom of our cultural issues.

There is a lot of anger, frustration, and unacknowledged insecurity going into vehicle purchases in the US.

I have been using Linux a lot more than usual at work this year. Something like Fedora w/ gnome might be a little much for some users. However, I am still impressed with how seamless everything is with Linux Mint.

For what it’s worth, this comment just inspired me to switch my work PC from edge to Firefox. Was already using it in Linux, and will switch my home PC tonight.

You aren’t kidding. I got four tiny spearmint plants this spring. They are growing kind of hydroponically because I have a pond.

In less than three months, those plants have exploded into huge nice-smelling bushes that are more than two feet in each dimension. They are planted in a line so there’s this walk of mint that’s almost 12 feet long.

But that’s not enough. The plants send out branches along the ground like freaking tentacles. They will spill out of a planter box, for instance.

The fast growth is why I chose this plant, but damn!

That sounds great! I will be following the app’s progress for sure.

By the way, the other thing that stood out was not being able to tap on an image and view just that image full screen. Being able to do that leads to things like zooming in on the image, or long pressing to copy/share it.

You also included features I didn’t even know I wanted, like the privacy option to hide your username. You’re doing good work, my friend. o7

Trying Mlem for the first time, the only thing that bothers me is that it shows total post scores and not individual numbers for up/down votes. I like seeing when something is controversial vs ignored.

Once I tried Memmy, I stopped paying attention to new apps.

I might have to try one or two mentioned here, though.

We are using the better version right now to discuss ways to [not] shoehorn the worse version back into our lives, lol.

I respect the project a great deal, but I just don’t see myself putting any effort into making Reddit accessible for myself.

Even if there were zero reasons to avoid Reddit on principle, Lemmy is just a better “product” for what I want out of it.

If I’m googling something at work and need to view a page there, fine. I’ll just use a cached page or visit directly with ad blocking as if it were any other webpage. That might benefit the company in some small way, but that doesn’t make it worth prepping my devices to better make use of Reddit.

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This place is at a magical point in its growth where it has enough people to fully replace that other site for me (but higher quality), but it’s also still new and exciting and worth contributing to help it succeed.