Yeah, it does give me hope. I’ve always been a lurker on Reddit, and it made me uneasy.

Here on feddit, i still find it difficult to express my thoughts in a direct and straightforward way, but at least i can try, and i feel like we’re actually making progress, because people are listening and sometimes give well-thought-out responses. that makes me happy. We can both learn a lot.

Apart from that:

Friendly reminder if you have the financial means, donate to your instance, donate to the Lemmy devs, donate to Pixelfed or any other social media app fighting big social media. And better than a one-time donation, set up a monthly contribution even if it’s just $2/month. It really helps open-source developers when they have a steady income.

Yeah, please do. I’ve calculated that hosting lemmy costs approximately $2/year/user, but the numbers vary a bit depending on how many files you upload. So, that’s not a lot, but for a few thousand users, it would still amount to something. So, please, donate if you can, even if it’s only $5/year.

does it include netflix?

well, i’m against individual workarounds for common problems, there should be common solutions.

otherwise you just start alienating 99% of the users who won’t put in the effort to install an extra app just to get that filtering, or if using the web interface on mobile, it’s just not possible.

The biggest problem with batteries is that people think that we need them.

What we need is for big consumers (heavy industries) to learn to take the electricity when it is cheap.

The problem is hosting (storage, network) is expensive.

IIRC some platforms (feddit.org, catbox.moe) pays $1000 per month, and that’s mostly just static images.

Videos is much more than that. Who pays for that?

Yeah, me too.

I liked watching ads 12 years ago, they were a funny interjection/change.

Nowadays the ads are so extremely obnoxious, it feels as if they’re poisoning my mind. No way i’m even gonna watch them for a second.

… which is absolutely understandable considering how lemmy is most of the time,

it’s politics non-stop, one bad news after another, everyone is quick to bash somebody as either a nazi or a tankie or something else.