KonQuesting

This is the same fearful and paranoid mentality which caused Putin to invade Ukraine. If everyone continues with this catastrophic thinking, we will have world war in no time.

Living in fear of a Russian invasion of Europe is completely delusional.

“The clicks” don’t matter when these individuals own the media outlets and the social media platforms.

I have over 100 RSS feeds I’ve organized into different categories. It lets me get the latest updates from many websites all in one place. Even though some feeds now only supply a headline or partial article, it’s still a much faster and comfortable experience than relying on Twitter or Reddit to do the same thing.

I think the big Mastodon push last year has made things a little bit easier for Lemmy. Basic awareness of the fediverse has broken into the mainstream of social media, rather than being a niche interest of Free Software enthusiasts.

Now that Lemmy’s gotten this initial nudge of mainstream support, I’ll be far more engaged here than I ever was on Reddit.

I thought Kingdom Come: Deliverance came pretty close to delivering that “Bethesda-style” immersive RPG experience.

Truly the most terrifying rationale they could have used for their decision.

You’re right! The front page of Reddit is nearly 8x larger than Lemmy.ml, and took almost 7x longer to load than Lemmy.

Uncached loading results:

Lemmy: 3.3 MB, 39 requests in 1.85 seconds
Old Reddit: 6.3 MB, 60 requests in 4.53 seconds
New Reddit: 24.5 MB, 351 requests in 12.21 seconds

When “New” Reddit came out, it was just shockingly bad. If they didn’t keep old.reddit.com online, they would have killed the site then. Until very recently I couldn’t even view all child comments within the main thread, and it still takes at least twice as long to load any page.

Coming to Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air. The site is much more responsive than Reddit despite most instances running on a single VPS or something.

This is where I’m at. The only reason I ever joined Reddit is because of the centralization of the internet. Now I’m doing my part to keep building momentum for modern, free, and independent platforms.