krayj

I do it for the following reasons:

1. The big main lemmy servers can and do go down regularly. having accounts on other instances still gives me the ability to log in and participate on the communities I care about. I sure do wish the underlying federation logic allowed for associating selected logins on various instances together somehow.
2. Testing: often, I will create a post or comment into a community hosted on a different lemmy server and not see it update. When this happens, I'll log in on the other instance to see what that post or comment looks like from there.
3. Insurance against defederation: I participated/followed some beehaw.org communities before they defederated, and then I was forced to open an account there to continue participating in those communities.

Cloudflare makes the website feel dirty, but it'll protect the site until a better option is found.

Can you elaborate what you mean by this? Lots of sites use cloudflair and most users of those sites would never even know. What makes it dirty?

I desperately need them to swap positions of the two bananas on the left.

I'm currently using Liftoff as my daily goto client, but I also like Connect very much except for the way it handles images and nsfw images. I'm also curtently evaluating Thunder, but I'm not sure if I want to try memorizing yet another gesture-based interface.

I Saw Her Standing There

It's certainly not one of their many compositional masterpieces, but I really love this song because of how quintessential it is of that very early British pop invasion style with the catchy twangy guitar melody.

"If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid." - Mercedes Lackey

These companies do it to sell product, not because they actually do or don't believe in some political agenda. If it works to sell more product, then they are going to do it regardless of how repulsive some niche group in a far corner of the internet finds it.

I still haven't fully abandoned reddit. Reason: There are a number of niche communities I'm part of that just have zero or near-zero population here. Fediverse just doesn't yet have the minimum critical mass of users necessary to be a viable alternative for anything but the most common and basic topics.

As far as making the switch for the common/popular stuff, there were difficulties that I ran into but I've mostly adapted. My first big mistake was trying to use Jerboa (I thought it was the 'official' app, but quickly discovered that it loves to shit itself if the app version is out of sync with the server version by even a sub-sub-dot version number. It also crashed a lot. Another early mistake was joining a small instance and not realizing that their view of "all" communities was not the same as the view of "all" communities from a bigger instance...and so my earliest view of the fediverse was pretty crippled until I started creating accounts on other instances. My next problem was the learning curve: I didn't see a lot of the communities I wanted while on that small instances and so I started creating them, only to later discover that many of those communities already existed on other instances and were well established. Fediverse has a MASSIVE community discoverability problem that needs to be solved before more of the masses will be attracted to it.

Now that I've got a good working client that I like, have local accounts on the main instances where most of the communities I participate in are located, have re-found replacement communities for the ones I lost access to when beehaw de-federated, I estimate that after about 2 more years at current growth, fediverse might also be a viable alternate to those niche communities I'm still going to reddit for. I'd estimate that I'm 70% fediverse + 30% reddit at this point.

At what point do you think it's unethical? Or do you have no line that can't be crossed. At 28 weeks, it's a fully formed baby that can survive outside the womb with an 80% survival rate....that's way past any reasonable and ethical line.

Are you capable of reason? Let's hear yours.

Go look up "28-week baby" on google images and get back to me about your bullshit.

For me it was the AMA that was the last straw. It was so disingenuous - all the responses had been pre-written and were copied and pasted from other previously written stock, the only answered questions were cherry-picked from reddit shills, and the several dozen most upvoted questions were completely ignored and never responded to. The very concept of "AMA" is an idea that was birthed on reddit, for reddit, and the foundational core tenets of AMA were ignored and disregarded. Ignored and disregarded...is also exactly what they think of their users, subreddit moderators, and 3rd party developers.

What users are voluntarily pro-spez (and by voluntarily, I mean their paychecks aren't jeopardized by dissention)?

I have met plenty of anti-spez users, and I have met plenty of users who just DNGAF, but I have yet to meet a single actual bona fide user who is 'pro-spez'.