I got permabanned this week for saying “Poor white people are being tricked into blaming black/brown/trans people for their problems instead of billionaires.”
Apparently it was promoting hate based speech and attacks.
Reddit was kinda neat 15 years ago, it’s a fucking cesspool now.
https://old.reddit.com/ is still working fine for me.
If Lemmy would pick up some more content about RVs and sailing I would leave there but meanwhile the old way still works.
Hey man! I just bought a used travel trailer. I pick it up in a week and a half. We still have to sit down with the sales guy for the final extended warranty pitch. Two questions:
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Are the extended warranties offered by the dealership worth it? I would assume anything major that goes wrong will happen on the road and i’ll be stuck getting repairs done in Iowa or some shit.
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Do you have any experience with harvest hosts? Is it easy to use and worth the cost? Hows the host availability.
I got a 21ft geo pro. Probably too big for a lot of boondocking, but i still plan to boondock it as much as possible. I dont love the idea of always being at KOAs and such.
Are the extended warranties offered by the dealership worth it?
Not in my opinion but it depends how you’ll be using the trailer. The thing people don’t expect is that warranty work gets last priority. When you bring in the trailer for warranty work, there is no new revenue for the dealership. So the trailer will just sit there on the lot, possibly for months, waiting until the repair guys have literally nothing else to do, before they will actually start work on it.
This is super unprofessional but seems to be the industry norm.
If you’re only going to use the trailer a couple times a year maybe this is fine, but if you use it a lot and you need to be back on the road fast then it makes the warranty basically unusable.
Plus also what you said, unless you bought from a national dealer the warranty will not help you with emergency roadside stuff. But mostly when things break it won’t stop you from towing the trailer — you would just finish your vacation with no refrigerator or whatever which is annoying but not fatal.
I live in mine full-time. When things break that I can’t fix myself my first choice is a mobile tech so I don’t have to get a hotel while they fix it.
Do you have any experience with harvest hosts?
No, I haven’t tried it. Some people seem to like it a lot, other people complain. 🤷
I got a 21ft geo pro. Probably too big for a lot of boondocking, but i still plan to boondock it as much as possible. I dont love the idea of always being at KOAs and such.
21’ is not too big for boondocking. The thing about boondocking is you have to somehow know where to find a good spot. iOverlander website is good for that. Out west, especially in the desert, there are lots of places on public land where there is a usable gravel road with big cleared sites that anyone can get to in any size RV. Other places where it rains more, not so much — tight twisty potholed dirt roads through the forest with little carve-out spots between trees are not good for big setups. Regional parks, state parks, natural forest parks, and national parks are often pretty awesome. There’s also a lot of RV parks out in the middle of nowhere that can be super nice and park-y — shout out to La Conner thousand trails in WA, Pacific City thousand trails in OR, “The Narrows” in Maine — but very hit or miss; some are just a parking lot, too. KOA is convenient and consistent but expensive. We use them when they’re the closest campground to someplace we want to be visiting (just got out of three days at KOA near my sister in law) but yeah if you like boondocking then KOA will not be a fun destination for you.
Good luck, have fun, don’t cheap out on the hose you use for dumping your black tank.
Thanks a bunch for the words of wisdom.
In terms of not having niche communities on Lemmy, I think it’s the Field of Dreams situation – but im generally too lazy to build it.
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It only works on some things. You’ll still get the pop-up sometimes, even through old.
Yeah came to say the same. I have a few subreddits I still lurk in because lemmy doesn’t have the largest communities on that topic yet. I imagine it is only a matter of time before old reddit is gone.
i lurk on youtubers fan subs, the ones that arnt controlled by youtubers themselves(to deflect criticism)
Agreed. I was all confused AF until I realized that people don’t automatically use it, or using the auto-redirect apps that help prevent New Reddit from ever showing its face.
How much are you posting about RVs and sailing on Lemmy?
We can yell into the abyss all we want, but the abyss isn’t yelling back.
Our niche interest communities are slowly being formed on the Fediverse, but if nobody participates then 🤷🏼♀️
Yep, I remember when I first joined Lemmy, you’d be lucky if your post got 2 comments. I recently posted on a car group here and got about as much engagement as I would have on r*ddit.
I like it here, I like our community. Feels like a comic con in a small city. “I wish people at this con would talk about Squirrel Girl” maybe you should set up a booth. Same applies here.
reddit Reddit Reddit reddit.
Wtf does censoring it do?
Ever tried getting the stick removed from your ass?
You could answer the question
I made a couple baseball buddies on Lemmy. Niche communities on Lemmy aren’t pointless.
The birding community is active enough for me. Honestly, I dont want modern day reddit experience in my niche communities. Theyre… Disrespectful? Lots of armchair experts who parrot internet takes and philosophies to get massive upvotes, and the hive mind mentality downvotes counter perspective. I love fly fishing, but damn do I hate the fly fishing subreddits.
I’ll agree to that. Hobby communities on reddit are typically newbies repeating information they read elsewhere on repeat. I’ve been playing high level hockey since I was a kid and I’ll take a peak at the hockey players subreddit. I saw a guy who had been playing for a year telling someone who was brand new to the sport about kick points on a stick. This guy will never reach a level where kick points are something that will affect your shot, but he’s out here giving advice.
Don’t even get me started on the cycling subreddit.
I’ll agree to that. It’s just the first part where you are the only person sucks. Specifically with local communities.
I’m ok with expressing my opinions into the void on Lemmy and nobody listening. They weren’t actually listening on reddit anyway.
Very valid point.
But if you yell into the abyss this may cause someone to yell back
That’s how I met my friend Mephistopheles Mammon when I was in the Parisian catacombs. Dude owes me $50.
That’s so funny, who would even notice that it’s “broken?”
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“it just works”
Same thing why people still use Microsoft, Still pay for Netflix, spotify, etc. It sucks but it just works for them. They also don’t want to “learn” something new and/or different.
Plus people just love to complain, misery loves company.
Just toggling desktop mode on your mobile phone should still work. I use that trick all the time to get around the, you must download the app to view age-restricted posts on mobile. Literally, if you just turn on desktop mode, you can skip past the prompt instead of downloading the app.
None of this would be a issue if the lazy fucks would migrate to other platforms like Lemmy etc, right now this app is very limited compared to all the various subreddits, people need to start making replicas of the popular and niche subreddits and make it easier for people to migrate
I would argue that Lemmy.world has even more strict rules than reddit. At least it seems like that sometimes. Certain topics are just deleted.
I think Lemmy is decent for memes and entertainment but I dont think it can serve as a proper discussion site. The moderation wouldnt work. Unpaid moderators cant keep this place open for good discussions because it requires too much effort. But its good for memes. I like Lemmy in that way. Its positive and fun.
How is the moderation landscape any different on Lemmy vs Reddit? Aren’t Reddit moderators all unpaid too?
I think so, but people want to do it for a high profile site like reddit. Not so much for Lemmy.
I haven’t encountered this. Which topics?
Probably transphobia tbh. That’s a hot button issue across Lemmy, as it should be.
The person you’re replying to might be conflating .world with .ml or one of the other authoritarian left instances. On those criticizing any world power other than the US is called out as racism.
Yeah I never seen anything crazy on .world except some mistakes and a few power tripping community mods but nowhere near what reddit is. Maybe OP is thinking of
.mlwhich is an absolute shithole in every sense of the word.Either way that’s the entire point of decentralization - you can just hop on a different server.
Well, old.reddit.com still works fine on Safari mobile anyway. Just tested it out of curiosity. Wonder how long until they try and lock that one down too?
That’s literally what I’ve been doing. If I have a question and reddit pops up as the source of an answer I just change the URL to add .old.reddit.
Fuck reddit though.
Old Reddit Redirect is one of the essential addons I install on a fresh Firefox.
Gotta pinch zoom on everything though
Double tap the thing you want to read and it’s usually big enough to manage.
Spez specifically said they’ll never depreciate old Reddit.
So look for it to vanish in the not too distant future.
fuck u/spez
Not as long as they can’t deprecate old.reddit lol
Fuck u/spez
I had to test it, using Firefox on iPhone (so webkit) in the EU, got a small pop up at the bottom nagging about their data stealing app, but with a big closing button at the top. It closed just fine.
The article says they’re testing this with some users, but not all yet. So some of us may have different experiences.
It could be however also that they don’t do it to EU users. Who knows.
I just got a notice that if I want to keep FB chat running, so I can talk to my mom and her siblings, I need another fucking pin code of sorts.
Because essentially adding 4 digits-only to the end of your password is valuable at all.
In this light, it’s hard to gauge where the enshittification baseline is.
I don’t think there is one. If they move fast towards worsening the product, people notice and bail early, but if they slow roll it really patiently, the bleeding of users seems to be much slower and less pronounced overall. It seems that there may even be some among us for which there is literally no floor at all, and they would tolerate anything, but ultimately leave at the end only because everyone else already did and there’s nobody left to talk to. Now that they have LLMs, maybe they can retain that last cohort with no standards at all; we’ll see!
Regardless, they’ll still bend over & take it.
Fuck Spez, but also, is this is amateur hour?
First off, don’t use new Reddit. Second, run Reddit in desktop mode. Third, use a browser like Firefox so you can run RES and UBlock Origin.
Congratz, Reddit as it should be is fully functional on your phone.
old.reddit works on mobile, but you need 1 Firefox extension the fixes the mobile styling.
And you’re using old reddit with RES like the good old days, but on mobile.
i had this perfect on chrome til one day it just went to desktop styling and now i gotta zoom in on every comment
on iphone there are no browser extensions except in safart (im keeping this typo) their dogshit browser
they force all browsers to use applewebkit engine
I mean, there’s a reason people say to never buy Apple products.
How do I block Google from recommending reddit without that command? The Google reddit partnership is always putting reddit on top 😡
The question is why the hell are you still directly connecting to google servers. Aggregate it with a public SearXNG instance that way your traffic is masked with others also using that instance.
Alternatively you can use Startpage but that’s proprietary, and iirc have been making some poor decisions as of late.
Could you fill me in on those decisions you mentioned from Startpage? I’ve been trusting it for a while now but don’t really keep up with a whole lot of things.
Just reddit being reddit again…
Update: annoyed Reddit users have figured out a way to get rid of the irritating popup — for now, at least.
That link pushing you to sign into Wordpress is either a troll move or some strong irony.
