I used to search with site:reddit.com, but the quality of research results got much worse within the last years. For big investments like let’s say a new washing machine I use a more or less independent website that tests different devices, it costs about 5€ to see the results.

All in all I need much, much more time to do research. Often I simply do not buy anything in the end. It is very frustrating.

I switched to Linux Mint, it helped as well!

1. The search in the start menu searching the fucking web with bing instead of my computer
2. Accidentally hitting F1 and Edge immediately opens with some “help”

Sometimes it’s not the “classic” happy moments but intense experiences like these that make us feel alive.

feddit.org is a good choice, folks over there are pretty moderate. However as Lemmy is federated, you will still interact with extremist instances and their users such as hexbear.net or lemmy.ml, if your instance does not defederate.

You will learn fast which communities to avoid, just block then and mind your own business.

Other comments make a point though questioning your concept of left/right.

A gym membership, my mail account (mailbox.org) and Spotify.

THE F–K?

I literally pay money to publish my article. Do journalists pay for publishing an article in the newspaper or do they earn money?

The whole Cube Escape Series.

I wonder if that’s really true though. From a strategic point of view it makes not much sense to me to focus on such a tiny community as Lemmy is over the usual targets such as TikTok, Meta and Shitter.

The community is a very weird mix of Anti-Imperialists, communists and islamists.
They are not openly Russia-friendly, but they are very uncritical towards authoritarian systems. From pro-palestine over pro Hamas to pro Iran, and then you are almost there.

I sometimes wonder if it is just the US-american left going insane these days or if some corners of Lemmy are under the influence of Russian and Chinese troll factories.

Time to raise an issue! I think markdown should be limited to the text body of a post…

It’s not the same extent and also a jpeg. I’m sorry but I had to go through Instagram photo downloader hell for this

Lemmy.ml is doomed. You were unlucky to pick the wrong instance. It’s one of the downside of federated Lemmy that .ml is the oldest instance, leading to many cool communities being hosted there. The only way is to start that community on another instance that is not .ml or .world and staying patient.

Hexbear and lemnygrad are not even a choice.

You guys were friends with Chrome?

The tap, it generates water out of the void

The oldest residential building is from 1550, but there is a church where the oldest parts are from the 11th Century.

Everyone has a plumbus in their home. First they take the dingle bop and they smooth it out with a bunch of schleem. The schleem is then…repurposed for later batches. They take the dingle bop and they push it through the grumbo, where the fleeb is rubbed against it. It’s important that the fleeb is rubbed, because the fleeb has all the fleeb juice. Then, a schlami shows up, and he rubs it…and spits on it. They cut the fleeb. There’s several hizzards in the way. The blamfs rub against the chumbles, and the…plubis, and grumbo are shaved away. That leaves you with…a regular old plumbus.

This story is about Stasi in East Germany. You may have thought about Gestapo in NS-Germany. Or maybe you are from the US and just read Germany (just kidding)