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.
CheshireSnake
joined 2 years ago
It's great. I'm on vanilla Arch now, but EOS would be my first choice if I ever wanted to change to another arch-based distro. The only time I ever encountered any issue (that's not my fault) was the grub issue last year iirc. Other than that, it's been pretty smooth. It's basically Arch with a few QOL features preinstalled.
Edit: just like you, I was on Mint for years before switching to EOS. It's easy, don't worry. You'll want to start reading, though. The wiki and aur are great.
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!
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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.
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.
I use Arch and Debian and I don't think I ever had to build ungoogled chromium from source before (unless I wanted to, which I didn't).
Firefox has telemetry. You can opt out and delete it, but by that logic it shouldn't be trusted either. Also, I doubt people who really care about privacy don't harden firefox. Being able to is not besides the point.
+1 to this. Imho it's not good for lemmy as a whole if people are concentrated on a few large instances. Any time one of those major instances experience issues, the effect is going be major.
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.