The jokey post is true. The difference is whether a user sees this as a bug or a feature. Many of us see it as a feature. If you see it as a bug, maybe Lemmy isn’t for you.

I also don’t want to see the Fediverse “succeed”. Both Reddit and Facebook were great for a while, then they “succeeded” and enshittification began. The Fediverse is fine how it is, it doesn’t need to become the most popular thing on the internet in order to keep my interest.

I think the issue is that your are expecting a perfectly seamless, Reddit-like experience, with all the admin work done for you but also always done to your satisfaction. That isn’t what the Fediverse is about. It’s more of a DIY ethic than a “The admins suck but this is all we have” like on Reddit.

I’m also not sure what you’d need to “migrate” to a new instance other than yourself. Karma isn’t super relevant here.

My main account is on Beehaw, which has very rightfully defederated with some other instances. When I log in using accounts on other instances, I don’t see a massive amount of missed content. In fact I’ve seen so little of interest that I’ve stopped looking, it’s not worth my time.

You can always set up your own instance if you are disturbed by the actions of admins on instances that you have joined.

Alternatively, if the instance you are on changes direction, you can easily find a new one. It literally took me about half an hour after I learned about the Fediverse to get myself set up on several instances, then later on I decided which I preferred. But I didn’t delete the other accounts- they’re still there in case I want them someday.

It was in 2012. Most people where I live think a yearly vacation is a necessity, but I’m a homebody…vacations stress me out.

I think a post to c/support would be more likely to get a useful response.

Yeah, I think I’ll look into in as well. On Reddit sometimes people would use NSFW as a trigger warning on writing, but I’m not really triggered by writing. I’m not super into porn of any kind, though, so I’d rather not see that kind of content.

I don’t feel too bad when I’m forced to use Reddit as a resource, because I have a pihole as well as a ton of adblockers, and I don’t have a Reddit account anymore. I miss the niche communities, but I find that my life is better without that continual time sink with its constant silent downvoters, so I don’t visit just to browse nor do I interact with the site beyond a page view. No upvoting, no downvoting (of course it’s already impossible because I’m not logged in).

For some reason, when I tried that, I got a literal firehose of furry porn. Which is fine, I don’t want to yuck anyone’s yum, but it was…a lot. All at once. And I’m unable to determine exactly where it’s coming from (new to Lemmy, and pretty sure NSFW is not allowed on Beehaw).

I never thought of it that way, even thought I know farmers who do not keep cats, and their farms are not overrun with rodents. Terrier dogs are very common for rodent control, but they are generally treated like pets, and probably are far less indiscriminate in their choice of prey. Thank you for expanding my thought process on this.

As a person who lives in a farming area- the farmers keep cats, but they are not pets- they’re generally almost completely feral, allowed to breed uncontrolled, sometimes are not fed by humans, and when they inevitably wander into the road and are killed by cars, they are thought of as expendable- there are always more to replace them. I agree that there is probably no better rodent control, and rodent control is very necessary, but there has to be a better way to do it than using free-roaming feral farm cats.

I’m the person who posted above about her dogs killing a cat that came into our garden. It would have been my preference that my dogs were acclimatised to cats rather than seeing them as prey, but that would pretty much require that I had owned a cat when they were young dogs, and I didn’t. They honestly react the exact same way to a cat that they would to a hare or a badger, but I’m sure the hare would be faster than them and the badger would fight back.

I agree. I live in a rural area in a country where cats were seen as farm tools rather than living beings and pets until very recently, and keeping a cat indoors is believed to be “cruel” by most, but I see cats killed by cars incredibly frequently.

Also, I have two highly prey-driven dogs who are always controlled except when they’re in my walled back garden. The neighbour’s outdoor cat wandered into my garden, and it ended in a tragedy that left both me and the neighbour traumatised. The cat didn’t survive. It was in no way my fault, or even really the dogs’ fault- the cat should never have been allowed to wander into the dogs’ space on my property.

Then the neighbour tried to have our dogs put down, claiming that the dogs had come into her garden, killed the cat, and returned to our garden. Thankfully the dog warden who came to investigate saw that this was patent nonsense- we have a double-gated 3-metre wall with wire across the top on the neighbour’s side, it’s not possible for the dogs to escape into the next garden and quickly return.

So the neighbour built a catio for her new cat and does not let it wander. I am deeply sorry that a cat died before she came to that conclusion, but she should have controlled her animal just as I control mine.

I am much happier in my 50s than I ever was before- in fact, I was despondent for the vast majority of my adulthood. So I’d go back to pretty much any age before I turned 45, give myself the biggest hug, and say “It’s going to be okay, you’re going to make it, and you really are good enough.”

Absolutely, I already was over “sticking to a platform no matter what” when LIveJournal was bought by Russians in 2007. At one time LJ was practically my life, but I took a “scorched earth policy” with my blog there just as I did with all my Reddit content.

Of course it is, and also in memoriam of…lots of people, I suppose. If you like “Wish You Were Here” you probably get it.

I started smoking, thinking that it would help me lose weight. I wasn’t able to quit until I was in my 40s.

Lately, steel cut oats with half a banana and 250ml of kefir. I actually hate eating breakfast. I was into Intermittent Fasting for years and did 18/6 almost every day, but then I was diagnosed with diabetes and my doctor told me to stop IF if I wanted my meds to work as they should without causing low blood sugar.

“First off” is an annoying phrase that makes people sound dumb.

This is what made the decision for me. All the enshittification aside- in 15 years on Reddit, I did not make one lasting relationship with another human being there, even though I tried very hard at times (via everything ranging from Secret Santa to local meetup subs, to niche interest subs, and more). I have friends online that I have only known online since the 1990s, so it’s not that I’m “un-befriendable”. Reddit allows people to form mobs, not true communities, which almost always have many subsets of friends and acquaintances, rather than a bunch of strangers who actually don’t care at all if one of their members disappears.

Yeah, that’s exactly how I felt when I left Facebook, too. When my brother eventually also left it was so hard not to say “I told you so”- but I didn’t, and of course he never admitted that I was right all along. It’s good that I’ve matured enough that simply knowing it is enough.