I think you are pretty much agreeing with my message.

As is almost all the case when people say they don’t want “politics” in things. Politics just means whatever they don’t like/find valuable.

That is such an utterly awful user experience I am shocked it still exists currently.

It’s kinda to be expected for the thing only enthusiasts claim is super easy to use, but still.

Why would they? Ram hasn’t been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.

Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren’t loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.

I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they “think” like that, in human words. It’s because they’re not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.

You absolutely bring up good points yes, but at the same time, I don’t think its a check, so much as a mild mitigation. Even on the lemmy verse there are still mega subs that take on the most activity and gain similar types of “too big to fail” critical user bases.

The core problem, is that when a group gains disproportionate control over what users can see, they can push their views/twist arms, and that ultimately isn’t solved here.

I agree. Lemmy has a ton of awful moderators that abuse their power just to support “their” viewpoint.

Indeed. Famously the elephant in the room of the ml instance where they’re gone so far off the deep end on a lot of topics that they end up in essence supporting extremist conservative views/human rights abuses and worse. This is either with direct support with the weird straight up dictatorship praises many sing, being so toxic and hard to talk to that they push people away (who I hope know they certainly aren’t the average left leaning person) or the awful thing many do where they feel any incremental positive change is bad, and the only good change is a magic overnight revolution and shift to 100% exactly their view of how society should work, that they’ll also never spell out.

Lemmy is better though because it at least has the potential for people to have better moderation

In some ways yes, in some ways the opposite (as mentioned with the lack of tools).

Regarding the modlog, maybe I am missing something, but when things are deleted here, its actually a little bit worse than reddit sometimes in that you won’t be able to immediately see the content that was deleted of yours, and then for mod logs, I believe (As I am not 100% sure) that comment removals disappear when the user who made the comment is banned as well, so its kinda false transparency.

and the power of short simple repetition until lies become truth.

This is also true with long diatribes that are packed with bullshit but that drain your time to debunk.

This is the type that I feel is common on lemmy.

If you dive into them, eventually youll find the ideas all fall apart, the sources are weird, biased and funded by groups you wouldn’t take seriously etc etc, but at that point, you are exhausted, and you are probably not going to put in nearly as much effort into arguing as their prepared copypasta “literature” collections, nor as nice.

I would think this was a tactic to make a casual observer think “well that second person isn’t as reasonable as the first one who posted a lot of information” if they didn’t check the info themselves, but these posts are often so 0-100 hostile in attitude out of the gate, I can only think they serve to simply tire people out, and run obstruction.

Its worse in pockets (and I mean pockets large enough relatively speaking that you wouldn’t need to be part of specific groups to be there) because there are a lot of culty ingroups who almost seem focused on trying to be as hard to speak to as possible.

Like they are trying to convince you by bashing you with a hammer, spewing pages of rhetoric at you in a bad faith attempt to make their arguments appear to have merit.

Its especially true regarding the types of “”“leftists”“” who are so “”“left”“” that they actively are against any incremental changes that bring about positive change, and are only for fictional masturbatory ideas of instant revolution.

I know that sounds specific to politics, but believe me, it isn’t on lemmy. It creeps everywhere and you’ll see pockets of these people.

I half want to feel like this is astroturfing backed by billionaires to make taxing them more seem less palatable to passerby’s.

This is being pedantic about the point being made and taking it unreasonably literal.

The meaning is that the effect of politics reach everywhere in life, and shying away from making the connections does a net harm to you and the world.

Not as an alternative, but as a supplement. Both experiences have massive problems, some shared, some not.

Lets be clear though, reddit is only worse than lemmy because it is centralized by one group of douchebags.

Lemmy has plenty of shitty moderation too, and arguably is worse at dealing with it within any given instance due to the lack of proper mod tools, the way posts that are deleted remove entire comment sections from being accessible, the lack of any appeals system and I’m sure a few other things I don’t remember off the top of my head.

Its a people problem, and its a style of organization problem with this style of forum.

There is at least one Robo vac that does not rely on the cloud, and personally I can’t imagine feeling comfortable with a robovac being cloud connected for no reason.

Is the fact that SteamOS is based on Arch going to change this such that prior Arch users must now suffer through Gentoo or will they stay the same, considering the proprietary inclusions of SteamOS to be enough to exclude it from the fold?

Oh nowadays you can get 26tb drives pretty affordably, so a 4 bay NAS could be getting you 50TiB now.

Of course most people don’t need all that though… including me honestly but hey, that data isn’t going to collect itself.

pretty sure that’s meant in a light hearted fashion

Imagine not having a double digit bay NAS with a triple digit number of Tebibytes.

Alternatively, your setup is kinda slow and you’re kinda lazy (not used pejoratively).

In what way? You don’t own anything on the fediverse. The people who run the various instances do.

Maybe they even have a TOS that says you own it, but then what? its still up to them to continue to host it, and they have no contract with you.

Unless you are self hosting your own instance, and only count what is on that, you own no more than with larger social media sites.

To be clear, I think that federations certainly are better than monolithic sources for a variety of reasons for real people, but they aren’t a solution for ownership.

Ive also noticed a ton of relatively new comments from relatively new commenters (like within a year), all chiming in the same bothsiderism or blatant bigotry type comments.

I’d love to just ignore reddit, but too many people don’t realize what is going on and its tremendously frightening.

What people think the consensus of public opinion is, is being controlled by white nationalist fascist billionaires.