I did it because it is cheaper, lets me learn a bit about self hosting and causes me to have less captchas and less websites blocking me, and its also more resistant to any potential VPN bans (my country's already made social media have age verification, I'm sure they'll come for vpns eventually). You're right that I don't have the benefit of blending in but there's still a lot of other ways you can be fingerprinted so that really isn't a huge benefit.
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Definitely Codeberg if you don't want to self host anything
Mine's on 24/7, I feel like it's better to use than not use it. I self host one on a vps over using s commercial one
How about the people that voted for people that weren't Trump?
Beautiful beans ❤😍
Simply, no it isn't. I took a look, it's honestly a nice community and doesn't look like "an echochamber of misandry" Saying this as a guy btw
Now that I think about it, having votes shown seperately with hour needing to peek would be better, definitely a lot less confusing for new users and those that don't realise that's something that can be done. I prefer separate votes since it gives a better idea about the post. For example, if a post has a combined score of 1, I would assume that it hasn't had much activity, but if I see it has 15 upvotes and 14 down votes, that's still a combined score of 1, but it is controversial rather than having low activity.
I like how it's more decentralised but still feels easy to use, and also has no ads and isn't controlled by companies trying to make money. I also love how it is easy to curate a feed with only content that you want in it, and none that you don't being shoved in by algorithms that collect all your data
Try a different Matrix client like Sable or Commet, they have much better ux than element. Element is honestly a pretty garbage matrix client when it comes to the ui and ux
Yes, Lemming is the term. Now the next question is what to call us piefed users and mbin users
Not sure about chromium ones but it works on all firefox based browsers
There's actually a new loophole where an app called morphe with an extension called patcheddit uses Redreader's (or infinity's, but the dev has to pay for that one so don't use it) api key to get third party clients working. If you want to keep using RIF, see this https://github.com/wchill/patcheddit, I tried it with Sync as a fun test and it worked well. As a bonus, you're less likely to have your account banned as I had mine banned last year for what I presume was using my personal api key to patch Sync, and you also don't need to use the Redreader app directly like many comments are suggesting. I presume what happened and why it stopped working for you is because Reddit revoked api keys for everyone except those who had api keys for bots and things like that. Hope this helps :)