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I'm more seeing it as tiny villages in the same country. Sometimes there's a duplicate Starbucks over in the other village, but they might have a different daily special. And some villages have beef with eachother, and then you gotta sneak out if you still want to secretly visit your beloved in the other village. Or move over to your summer house in village #3, where you can both meet up without issues.

I still make about one post a day on reddit in communities I like, in a reply that says "there's nowhere else to turn to" and make sure to mention the fediverse every time. Which is far less than I post on here, where it's about 50/50 circlejerk about reddit, and the other half is actually engaging with (or even creating) content.

This is my new home. It's small, but I like it that way. I mean, you can actually find out all communities on an instance, so I actually find a lot more relevant communities here than on reddit. They still gotta grow though.

I like the casting, but I standard have very low expectations of Netflix. It can only get better if you expect nothing (and I was really pleasantly surprised by Sandman, so who knows).Here's hoping the lack of actual footage is due to the writers' strike. But if not, we still got the amazing original to fall back to.

Finally. So tired of having to replace a phone simply because the battery no longer lasts a day, while the rest of it is still functional.

I chose a small instance from the start and haven't gotten that much lag at all. The one thing that does annoy me is the refreshing on the mainpage (and then suddenly an entire communities' posts are all on top), but pressing refresh fixes that for me. Confusing? At first, but I don't consider myself knowledgeable about tech and I was able to get it up, running and personalised before even reading a single guide. I curently sort by "all" and "new", and just keep adding to my subscriptions.

Is there room for improvement? Absolutely. But I wouldn't call lemmy unusable at all. I actually spend a lot more time on here than at the aforementioned place. And one absolutely major bonus point: we can integrate images in our reply here. And I can copy/paste in the reply without it suddenly completely bugging out and not being able to type at all. It just works as its' supposed to.

As I go back there now after the protest, I find reddits' content less and less interesting. I used to be able to lose hours on there, now I get bored after 5 minutes and get back to lemmy. It'll keep on existing, but here's hoping many more mainstream and non-techy users like me found the fediverse and know there's valid alternatives now.

"How dare you imply I am to blame for this mishap? That plant was just occupying my regular spot!"

First year growing tomatoes, so I know absolutely nothing about cultivars or even how to properly keep them alive, it seems. I basically got two plants from the garden center. One of them are roma tomatoes, the plant is rather wilting away but it has two very sorry looking tomatoes. The other one is looking really good and has tons of cherry tomatoes.

Out of solidarity with the blackout I'm staying completely off reddit until the 15th. After that I'll probably keep checking both. I really like lemmy and it's smaller community feel, but it has some bugs (the eternal scrolling of the "all" page for one) and it's very tech-oriented at the moment. There's not yet that many arts & craft or hobby communities yet, and those that exist are very, very quiet. Not that I need it to get as big as reddit, but more than 2 people active would be nice.

And I actually like the different feel of both, the fact that there's not that many bots (yet) floating around here, people actually discussing things instead of just downvoting you at the slightest disagreement, ... The scientific info on Mander is extremely interesting too, lots of great articles being linked instead of reddits' reposts every couple of days. So I think I'll stay active on both lemmy and reddit. They offer different things, and that's great.

I'm not sure if I entirely follow. So they don't need to verify (effectively legalizing child labour), but why would that remove liability for injuries?

We're at 1960/6001 right now. So almost 1/3. And the US is still 6 hours away from midnight, I suspect well over half to be dark eventually.

Aww, lemmy is officially grown up now!