Honestly, I think the goals of fedis shouldn't be to replace reddit, but to provide an alternative that people can check out if they wish to see/participate in a different community.
One of my biggest problems with reddit is that it centralized everything. You couldn't simply check out a different forum because most of community was on the sub. And if that sub happened to be a toxic hellhole, there wasn't much you could do to escape it without disengaging entirely.
My hope for the fediverse is that we are able to foster a culture of our own, so that people will come to us because they want to be a part of that culture, rather than just find another reddit.
Hard Off and Book Off are great if you want good prices. They are thrift stores, and tend to price with that in mind. Of course rarity does apply but I've never spent more than 3000y on a single item at my local location. Pricing does differ from place to place, and the rural ones tend to be cheaper.
Also from my memory, the Akiba Super Potato are way over priced, but the one in Ikebukuro tends to have better deals.
Don't get me wrong. If it were someone actually inviting discussion like "As someone from Belgorod with Russian speaking family living in Ukraine, I fear for their safety under the current regime" that would be one thing. But more often than not, it's usually something like "Russia's victory is at hand Those Ukrainian groomers will be crushed" or some other prop that is there more to be spam than discussion.
I've actually appreciated the communities here are less echochambery than on reddit. But still it kinda feels like I have to wade through more shit than usual here, and these are in comment sections far smaller than reddit.
On Lemmy.world, I see Hot, top, new, and old for comments, and I'm set to hot like I would be on reddit. Meanwhile, if I set it to top or old for example, it only stay like that until I click out.
So scenario: A news story involving Ukraine enters my feed. I read the article, as one does, and dive into the comments. Usually around the 2rd or 3th post, I'll see some Z ass post with several downvotes and few upvotes, and a comment chain where two people argue endlessly about shit that ultimately shouldn't really matter.
Normally on reddit, or any other social platforms with a downvote system, such posts would be towards the bottom, but here on lemmy.world, or kbin, or several other fedis, such post seem to have just as much, if not more weight as highly upvoted comments would.
Now I'm a very casual user, and maybe there's just something I haven't set up correctly, but I thought for at least the sake of the user experience a weighting feature would be implemented by default. Here it feels like I'm sorting by controversial with every other post.
Idk, maybe it's not a problem for other users, but it's definitely something I've noticed here.
Just a reminder that you can be critical of the US, NATO and other capitalist entities without sucking China's and Russia's cock, or romanticizing the USSR's or Warsaw block's legacy.
Frankly I don't see the difference between a fascist or a tankie if either are in favor of oppressing innocent people and restricting human rights.