How old are you? I feel like I started off being such an edge lord on the internet, and now at 30 I've never felt more aligned with left leaning ideologies. My father was pretty left leaning as well.
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Honduran here. Didn't know this survey happened, would have loved to get my country in there!
6gb, thank you!
Essential workers from the pandemic looking at this shit take like
It's worse now, it's an all out react native app, I believe. On windows, it's hideous. Simple things such as sending attachments become a multiple-seconds-long waiting game; by the time I'm able to send a screenshot, my phone link has already transfered the clipboard from my pc to my phone, I have unlocked it and opened WhatsApp and sent the attachment through android instead. This has happened to me more times than I care to count.
There's also this nasty input focus bug, where you sometimes have to tab out of the app entirely and tab back in for it to detect focus on textboxes.
Its like they're intently taking steps back on WhatsApp as a whole, kind of reminiscent of Skype's fall from grace.
To add something that I haven't yet seen mentioned (didn't read the whole thing), porn. It hasn't taken off like it did on reddit, and I do miss that. I don't want my feed covered in porn, but I would like to have quality porn properly covered in an adult instance. Pornlemmy and lemmynsfw just doesn't cut it.
Im on infinity, and I don't love that there's little to no support for popup gifs and videos on the feed, I mostly have to go into a post whose title may catch my attention then wait for something to load (or not to load, redgifs has been incredibly hit or miss for me as of late, lots of forbidden requests and failed playbacks due to it). Idk, it's not the experience or the content that you'd expect on reddit using any reddit 3rd party app.
Other than that particular thing, it's been getting very us-centric, with political memes or stuff that only us people would care about. I might have to try other instances.
Other than that, I appreciate Lemmy, it made me mostly drop reddit except for Google searches, and I feel comfortable interacting with people here.
I'm pretty left leaning, and I agree. It was already burning me the fuck out on reddit, and now the whole "USA politics everywhere" thing is picking up pace here. Even if it's not us politics, it can get tiresome after a while when politics bleeds through communities, or when us politics/news bleeds through world politics/news communities. We get it, America number 1, now let me look at some beans.
Sure, let's build what we NEED to build in a conscious way, but have you seen the housing market as of late? China was printing useless buildings everywhere they could just to keep their faux market going, and any place without regulations will try to cram as many people as possible in as little space as possible, forgoing any quality of life or even safety designs in place of profitable designs.
We love to come together in big cities, and even jobs that don't need to be on-site end up being on-site, thus worsening the problem. There's a ton of land out there that could be turned into sustainable housing solutions that could benefit both the people and the environment. I'm just saying we should probably consider other alternatives to "suburban hell" and "communist hell".
My local Pricesmart (Costco equivalent) already has Christmas stuff up for sale as of this week. Global warming is melting her earlier every year.
I mean, that is true of a ton of other, if not most, consumer goods
Well yes, it's definitely great as a temporary means of housing, but realistically we all want some breathing room, some privacy, expandability... This is great for cities and Metropolitan areas, but you're not gonna get people elsewhere to prefer this over, say, a foresty cottage with full privacy, solar energy generation, your own crops, maybe even a water source that you can clean up to provide for your water needs.
The problem isn't that kind of house, the problem is the suburban hellscape with perfectly cut lawns that offer little to no biodiversity, little say in house designs, and an infrastructure design that promotes transportation by cars.
If we simply moved away from big cities, worked from home, and aimed for personal regenerative agriculture or at the very least a more simbyotic relationship with our environments, we'd be leagues ahead.
I did this because a version of this pop-up started showing up in every video for me this week. Didn't help. I'm thinking about using piped, though I really don't like the UI, it's not polished enough.