I hope I’ve bought my last gasoline car.

As California goes, so goes the nation. Conservatives don’t like this.

If it wasn’t for the high cost of living, I’d move to California as well. Still hope I’ll make it there some day.

Over the past 30 years, technology has taken extensive leaps forward. Except for printers and printer drivers. Still stuck in 1990.

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Small government is allegedly still at part of the Republican platform at the state level. For a small government party, they sure do like to dictate what’s going on in people’s bedrooms.

The party of small government.

Absolutely. Lemmy had a very different feel than reddit up until Sync was released. Now I can barely tell the difference.

There’s a reason why it’s called “work” and “free time.” Most prefer free time to do whatever they actually want to do.

Not to this extent in any way. It has been infinitely exacerbated with the dawn of social media. Those who seek to divide have the tools to do so. And we’ve seen since 2016 what it leads to when people are being continually lied to and they believe it because the lies fit into their own belief system. Trump is not a master at much, but he’s a master at that.

People just make up their own truth and say that you’re the one in need of “truth.” It’s a product of the “alternative facts” era that mainly Trump ushered in and others have picked up. If your facts do no support the preferred agenda, it’s just dismissed as “fake news.” Easy-peacy.

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I gave Lemmy a shot after the API debacle on reddit. First week was bumpy with lots of timeouts and servers that weren’t able to handle all the new users from reddit.

It quickly improved. So much so that I went ahead and deleted my reddit account.

I personally think Jerboa is a the smoothest experience so far. But I’m planning to jump to Sync when it becomes available.

I’d also expect another big jump when clients like Sync and Boost get their apps for Lemmy online. That will attract an enormous amount of users from reddit.

Started out bumpy and the servers couldn’t handle all the new traffic. Vast improvements over the last few days. So much so that I went ahead and deleted my reddit account today. Not looking back.

The signup process is a barrier at the moment that will have to be addressed. Other than that, I don’t really see why it couldn’t be the new, improved reddit.

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While I agree that spreading the load is important, that doesn’t make much sense to someone who’s new to federation and is possibly coming from reddit where you just join and start commenting. People are automatically searching for a default.