From my 10 year reddit experience, hardly anyone reads the sidebar until shoved down the throat.

I'm expecting the same from recent reddit refugees.

Although one could argue having a DM pop in right after sign up and they would ignore it as well. Projection from me, but that's what I did when I subbed to a subreddit that has a welcoming DM. I don't doubt others do to.

To the defense of the me turned instances, there's only so much admins can do. Leading a horse to the water and all, as the saying goes

Purple is one of my favorite colors, so it always gets a like from me.

Looks great.

IMO it's gatekeeping. I got the feeling there's a group in the threadiverse that don't want reddit refugees.

To them, it's a feature, not a bug

If I understand it right, this is a feature developed from inception on Piefed. I'll just say it here: it's like multireddits. They have default comm group feed, at least on piefed.social. But you also can make your own group feed. Just like multireddit.

I personally would move to a piefed instance once it's more developed and have more choices for front end client / mobile app, since that's the biggest thing I miss from reddit.

Edit: and IIRC piefed also group same posts from different duplicate / similar comms into one "post".

If we are aliens' experiments or zoo, they better come down here right now before we extinguish ourselves lol

Yep. Yesterday I stumbled across a few old Reddit threads back when TikTok initially get banned. specifically subreddit drama posts.

Reading through it, and seeing how gen z moaning about how they won't be able to connect and find new people and info. I still think they are addicted to the algorithm but I also am able to empathize somewhat in the connection part. Facts are they were born into and grew in near total "antisocial" environment. Constant connection to the internet so it's easy to forego face to face meeting, leading to a cycle of not hanging out physically like older generations did.

Then there were the COVID lockdowns helping itself to the pile of shit.

Peer influence going to TikTok, and then getting fed constantly with their algorithm using the short form content TikTok is infamous for.

It really is tragic when I look at it honestly.

Ah you're right. I guess I was too focused on "hide read" after it has been read. Didn't think it actually has to have a function to be marked as read first.

I'm loving this trend but it's a pain not having a hashtag that I know of

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I personally like tesseract than alexandrite for desktop, although that's not listed in that page I linked

unfortunately the tesseract dev is calling it quits because of burning out with Lemmy development.

it is a fork of photon either way, so when something broke if tesseract truly won't be updated, I'll probably use that instead

that's good news then. but it wasn't when I looked way back idk 3 weeks ago?

that's not the main reason I wanted to jump ship though. it's the defederation that pushes me to try other lemmy and even mbin instances.

I'm not surprised you said it's the latter. I would say the same before I got professional treatment for my depression-turned-out-BPD2 diagnosis.

now I'm keen to answer it's both. mood own, something I really like could raise my mood, but it also could prevent me from even consume it, for example

it depends in whether its low or high energy emotion, and whether it's unpleasant or pleasant

I personally am abandoning my l.w. account.

from a content discovery and interaction aspect, lemmy.world has its fair share of federation fights. this would mean you wouldn't see content from instances that defederated them, nor will users from those instances see yours

and from the aspect of the software of Lemmy itself, it's not up to date. I personally am not sure what that entails, but it's probably not good

you can check out this community for a bunch of apps !lemmyapps@lemmy.world

or at https://join-lemmy.org/apps they also list apps for web browser (front ends), android and iOS.