I have a very slight feeling Reddit’s working for China, and not for the US. If I’m right, then chances only grow since the pushes for identity verification gained traction around last September.

It hurts internally and externally, if I may add. How would other countries trust a given country if this country doesn’t even respect right for defense?

I was just conjecturing. e.e"

Using Ollama, it’s a bit laggy using Termux on a Redmi Note 10 Pro, though the model I picked may not be the best optimized.

Even on the lower end, 17,5% is still a lot. And I can’t help but wonder how many people that never comment but are always there decided to drop as well.

If anything, considering Reddit seemingly at damage control mode and their opaque numbers, I wouldn’t doubt they lost far more people than they’d be willing to show.

Wouldn’t there be standard forums with fediverse integration, like NodeBB?

Linux initially, giving way for me to see that the best alternatives to me are generally the ones I control.

And considering geopolitics, where I can see how dangerous a well-positioned spy/saboteur/paid actor can be, my next self host project is some ActivityPub social media, at least as an one-user instance since I don’t want to act as a company yet, so I have control of where I’m posting from too.

If seen as a solution, it’ll lead to disaster. If seen as a tool, then something good could come. But a tool being a tool, it’s as good as the person using it. And there’s the concern of it causing addiction similar to TikTok to be tackled if it is to be reliable, and not a dependence source.

Did it myself. Thanks to point out. =D

Federated, ye:
https://ani.social/post/27255390

Design-wise, Friendica resembles Facebook.

I’d add to the suggestions Friendica too. Unfamiliar with Piefed (maybe I’ll create an account on the flagship instance to try out), but the other two also allow following microblogging stuff (e.g. Mastodon), as well as having microblogging functions to thread posts (e.g. boosting and tags).

Preaching the choir here, but please use it as a motivation to feed the fediverse more. 👌

And related to this, a good use of the fediverse is that, if there’s nothing inherently bad about what you’re trying to post but your chosen instance is tripping like Reddit, you can just give the finger to it and pick another instance. Or if the community is the one tripping, you can make your own, or look for an already existing alternative.

Pretty useful imo so when you’re browsing, you only find posts you didn’t see before.

A hidden post is hidden only for the account that jod it.

Not quite the same, but since Reddit doesn’t want you there, why not try feeding other forums? There’s plenty outside of the fediverse too.

All news are biased. The ones that say otherwise are trying to trick you into being more susceptible to what they want.

Community mention, which should be instance-agnostic: !genshinmemepact@ani.social

Dunno if it’s as advanced for what you need, but apparently PieFed does.

If you must browse places other than your subscribed feed, I’d suggest blocking news and country-related communities. Exceptions may happen, so maybe worth not being too trigger-happy and evaluating if the community is problematic.

Also, since you’re on Lemmy, there’s no native option for it, but you can hide posts with Ublock Origin when they link to sites that are usually agenda or political bickering-driven.

Now it’s quite a meandering description :v