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Yeah same, I’ll buy like a 6-pack of small bottles of Barq’s like once every few months maybe, and drink it over the course of a week or so, or I’ll have a coke with a meal at a restaurant or something.

Nowadays, I make a gallon of tea every couple days, I have a 40oz water bottle that I drink ~1.5-2.5 of a day.

Holy shit you’re the best, thank you!

You know, I just realized I don’t get it (or at least not as much) with Voyager on mobile, and I didn’t even think about it. I’m using the Alexandrite UI on desktop and it’s bad about it, I haven’t found any options for it in the settings or anything. I noticed it a few times on reddit, but I was subbed to so many communities and they were so much more active that it almost never happened. Oh well.

That’s a fair point actually, and one I’ve not heard before. I’m not sure it’s worth trying to convert all (checks notes) 174 countries/territories to right-hand drive, but that’s reasonable.

Yeah, I like Scaled, I’ve switched to using that now. Thanks!

And yeah with Active I’ve noticed it seems to put the same posts at the top if I check it multiple times a day (I’ll often pop in for 20-30 minutes while waiting on something else or whatever), so hopefully Scaled does a better job about mixing that up.

As an aside: I am subbed to several political/news communities and I keep seeing the same post cross-posted to all 3 of them back to back, do you know of a way to avoid that? I want the other content from those subs but seeing the same ‘human fire hose of shit spews some more shit’ article 2-3 times in a row is annoying.

Yeah, I think after reading a couple replies in here I’m gonna go make an account on lemmy.ml and see how it goes. I just don’t want to be account-hopping every 5 minutes or whatever, I want a place where I can get the posts I want without the bullshit. I left reddit for many of the reasons comfy mentioned, so lemmy.world does not seem to be the place for that.

Good to know. Yeah I’m pretty chill with MLs. I enjoy debating politics (and religion and philosophy for that matter), but I see no point in getting cranky in the pants or holding a grudge or whatever about it.

I was dimly aware of Lemmygrad.ml and sorta decided to avoid it so I’ll just keep doing that (also I get the impression lemmygrad is defederated on many mainstream instances.) Slpnk.net is the other one I was considering, but it seems kinda dead compared to lemmy.ml or hexbear.

Alright, I think I’ll just go ahead and make an account on lemmy.ml and see how it goes. I’m already subbed to many of the communities on it and slrpnk.net and a couple on hexbear (tho I don’t seem to see posts on those very often). Thank you for the advice.

Fair enough, thanks for your advice. And yeah even if there was karma I wouldn’t give a shit; I was on reddit for more than a decade on the same account and I couldn’t even tell you what ballpark my karma was in when I left cause I cared so little. Mainly the inconvenience is in rejoining all the communities I care about, but it’s not that big a deal.

Thank you for taking the time to provide an in-depth answer.

I have not seen much of that, but I believe you. And yeah, I left reddit because I got temp-banned for ‘advocating violence’ because I said Luigi didn’t deserve to go to prison for what he did. It was bullshit and got lifted on appeal, but not before I also got perma-banned for some bullshit about evading a ban with multiple accounts (I’ve only ever had one account in the ~14 years I was on reddit, I never even made throwaways or anything.) It was also lifted on appeal, but by that point I was pretty fed up at how fashy and trigger-happy reddit admins (not even mods) are. I didn’t realize that was also a problem on lemmy.world, that’s disheartening.

I am an ancom myself with what most liberals would consider some pretty spicy takes on politics so I feel like it’s only a matter of time until I run afoul of the bullshit-police here too if it’s that bad. Do you think it’s worth making a new account on lemmy.ml (the only other instance I’ve even considered, but the description talks a lot about FOSS and not much about socialism/etc so I wasn’t sure) and starting over? What’s your opinion on other more socialist-focused instances like Hexbear (or others I may not be aware of)? Or is there some way to transfer my account? I’m still pretty new, like a couple months old, so it’s not the end of the world if I have to start over, but it’s kind of a pain so I’m not sure if it’s worth it.

Out of curiosity, which sorting option do you prefer and why? I seem to use Hot a lot, but sometimes I switch to Active, honestly not sure what the difference is.

Out of curiosity, why? I joined on lemmy.world cause it seemed like the biggest/most populated instance, but it seems to get a lot of hate and I’m not sure why.

Click on the menu, hit communities, and go subscribe to all the ones you’re interested in. Also https://lemmyverse.net/communities for finding communities on other instances you want to subscribe to.

You got room on that hill for one more?

driving on the left just makes way more sense.

Only because it’s what you’re used to. Also I know there are countries (Sweden, or was it Norway?) that have switched which side they drive on, and as far as I know no one has switched from right to left.

Nope. I was on reddit for like 14 years and I couldn’t tell you what my karma was because I cared so little about it. I paid a little attention to up votes and that’s about it.

Eh, I see them as fairly interchangeable. There’s some subtlety in the difference between them, but.

That’s not unique to this particular rich dumbass though, that’s been pretty much every rich dumbass in history.

Everyone is a nerd about something. That’s how interests work in general: you only ever get called a nerd for being interested in something that others aren’t interested in, but they’re also interested in stuff you’re not interested in, so…

The money flowing into their pockets from the bad guys is doing a pretty good job of convincing them that everyone but the rich are the bad guys.

Why is ‘some rich dumbass says some stupid shit’ still a headline in today’s world? smdh.