Omg yes this one was my favorite. I am HYPED

A lot of that comes down to some combination of your personal tolerance level and quality of the local infrastructure though.

I will say that if they can bike year round in Finland there’s plenty of hope New England!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

Jumping on to this. We’ve gotten into ebikes and they are borderline life changing

I would recommend giving them a try to almost everyone and they can be a really good alternative to driving your gas guzzling car without needing to drop on an electric one

This is not an unfounded concern but I don’t think it would be as bad as you might think.

If you’re interested in a topic, are you more likely to create a new community right away and try to grow it from nothing, or would you first seek out an existing one with quality discussion and an existing userbase first?

While yes, it’s possible there could be 100 different eu4 communities spread out across many different instances, in practice it would be difficult to sustain that many separate communities. Especially for niche topics you’d expect that when people want to connect with others they will gravitate towards the most active communities.

If anything I see it as more of an issue for broader topics like gaming since there is a much larger userbase, so it’s easier to sustain multiple separate communities spread out across many servers. Already we see this happening with gaming communities on Beehaw and Lemmy.ml. That’s not necessarily a bad thing though! Each instance will moderate differently so they can still be unique. Like maybe gaming communities on separate servers that do/don’t allow memes for example. If someone doesn’t like the vibes on lemmy.ml they can check out beehaw.

And even on Reddit it’s not too different. Think about how we have r/games and r/gaming that are both fairly large/popular. They’re both about gaming broadly but they’re a little different. Meanwhile there’s only one large eu4 subreddit.

I think the key thing that will screw them is violating the trust of the volunteer moderator force that basically makes reddit what it is. I don’t think reddit appreciates how much of their business relies on a completely volunteer, unpaid workforce.

If the mods decide to quit en masse and and either stop moderating or turn subreddits private on their way out then reddit is done for.

That’s basically what it is already on many of the largest subs. Hell they even recycle/repost the same content every 6 months or so

It’s way too hard to cut through the search engine optimized spam when googling something now. Especially for product recommendations all you get are random top X lists.

Interesting, I didn’t realize that.

Yeah I could see it becoming increasingly frustrating especially as new communities are added. Imagine if every community has pinned posts? Then there’d be a practical wall of pins you’d have to scroll past to get to new content

I saw one of the Lemmy devs say they’re a little unprepared cause they’re working on a pretty big performance overhaul still.

Timing is critical with these kind of migrations and if a lot of people flock to Lemmy just to have it croak at the new load it could really turn people off of Lemmy before they can even try it

Only thing I’ll say is you still have to pick carefully cause you’re also picking a mod/admin team.

Most of the subs I follow now are planning a black out. Several of them have implied or even outright said they’ll make it indefinite unless Reddit changes their plan

Honestly, other than threads that are specifically about politics I’ve barely seen any politics on here lol

Especially here on Beehaw cause I’m also on lemmy.ml with another account

Yeah I’ve been going back and forth between this one and lemmy.ml and a recent thread on Ukraine made really really appreciate that beehaw has that instance blocked

AdBlock and privacy blockers on mobile are a lifesaver