I liked your interpretation. It’s a better name for the free speech absolutists

My first inbox message on Reddit came after I made a supportive comment in response to a post on an abuse survivors subreddit and that message was so vile that I spent the whole 12 years not opening my inbox/replies page except maybe 3 or 4 times. I read posts in communities I liked and essentially shouted my comments out into the void, then ducked out to read the next comment/post.

Reddit had some great communities, but it also had lots of horrible communities that attracted all kinds of awful people to the site who goaded each other on. Subreddits were only ever as good as their individual moderation and policies since the site as a whole preferred promoting free speech over civility. I appreciate that my Lemmy server has a serious anti hate stance and a policy to defederate from servers that allow hate to flourish. I’ve been cautiously keeping up with my notifications here and actually reading my replies. I know trolls can still find ways to slip through the cracks sometimes, but it’s nice to know they aren’t actively courted and supported over here.

I am on Beehaw and see a downvote count of zero when I long press on the vote count. I have been curious about how it works when people from other instances interact with Beehaw communities and others that don’t allow downvotes. I didn’t know if Beehaw still receives that external vote data through federation, tallies it, and hides it or if it was dropped entirely. I guess there’s also the possibility that votes are only registered to the local instance where a comment is viewed, but I hadn’t considered that.

When I first got here, kbin’s main server, kbin.social, was interacting with Lemmy just fine. They turned on cloudflare to protect from DDoS attacks and it broke their federation is my understanding. Fedia.io is a different kbin server that should be federating like normal. Try checking out !random@fedia.io.

I’m really hoping https://kbin.social/m/folklore takes off, but at the moment that server has disabled federation because they’re having trouble scaling up to handle all the new traffic. The creator translates a lot of German folklore into English and seems very passionate about folklore and mythology.

Today I also learned about !germany@feddit.de for English language discussion about Germany.

That’s really cool that you’ve got a due date subreddit. I was on a pregnancy/parenting forum ages ago and it was really nice to have a group of women to chat with who were going through the same thing. So much of pregnancy just isn’t taught in schools and I was the first in my offline friend group to get pregnant, so I had nobody else to turn to with “is this normal” questions. My kid just graduated high school, so this was before Reddit was around.

For a community like that, I’d probably be willing to suffer through Reddit’s bad changes for a bit longer.

I use Vivaldi browser on Android and have done the same thing. I appreciate how the website itself works real well. I never understood why so many websites want you to download an app just to have a good experience and I’m glad that the parts of the fediverse I’ve been on work nicely in my browser.

Maybe, but Shenandoah National Park is so beautiful I might just have to follow you to VA instead! I lived in central VA for a year and it might be my favorite place I’ve lived in the US. Unfortunately, family has me tied down to east Texas for the time being. NB will probably be fully overtaken by Austin by the time I get out of here.

I live in the Piney Woods region of East Texas. It’s wetter than what most people imagine when they think of Texas and has beautiful, towering pine trees and the rivers have knobby kneed bald cypress trees. Unfortunately, all that moisture out here comes with a lot of mosquitos, too. We still have Texas heat and humid heat is pretty miserable, sometimes I wish I lived in a desert instead but I would miss all the greenery.

I used to live in Hesse when I was very young, I started kindergarten there. Unfortunately, I barely know any German. I might have to look up those comedians for more listening practice!

I remember when new Reddit was announced and I was telling people, “let’s give it a chance, new doesn’t mean bad! The site is a little bit ugly, it could be spruced up.” Then new Reddit came out and I had to eat my hat and set my account to default to old Reddit, but it wasn’t long before I primarily used Reddit on my phone and stopped paying much attention to the site. Fortunately it wasn’t my app that they bought out and wrecked when they decided they needed their own app.

Every now and then people start complaining about some new feature like chat or NFTs or awards and I stay blissfully unaware on RIF is fun because it’s just the bare bones posts, no weird extraneous features that nobody asked for. Have I ever received a reddit award? Heck if I know, I’m firmly in the old and curmudgeonly camp at this point and don’t care. I do wish old Reddit wasn’t fixed width so it would be easier to read on mobile, but at least I have teddit if I’m going to look at a link outside of the app.