Good read, thanks for sharing. But i think both of us are over estimating the tech literacy of the average user. Many of them look at software, or ideas, or platforms at surface level, and don't care much about how software works internally.

The average user isn't going to care about federation, and might not even understand it. To us and the OP of the reddit thread, we're familiar with federation, and have gotten used to it. It seems easy for us.

This is why i think the bluesky exodus is going to be useful, because it may inspire new users to learn about federation, and later on, the fediverse.

Maybe not, but nowadays, most are. And you are correct, they believe in free markets and private property, with little regulation.

Oh, yeah. The weather is one of the only good things here. People think i'm crazy for liking the heat here. then winter comes then suddenly i'm right :)

In mecca, we average 40c on all seasons except winter. At most, we get 50c. We're used to the heat, that's why we're so brown, so we don't get skin cancer :)

but I can't handle anything else lower than 30-20. I remember going to al-Hada (a town in the mecca state) and actually felt like i was going to freeze to death. I have no idea how you Scandinavians are still alive.

Arab here. The number of Arab users on lemmy is probably in the double digits.

We badly need a proper community of our own.

How could you improve something that is already perfect?

Anyways, outer worlds is also awesome, still a win

The whole left and right label is very ambiguous and hard for me to define. I agree liberalism is an umbrella term for a variety of political ideologies. I was mainly talking about classic liberalism, while it seems that you are talking about social liberalism. Social liberalism, at most, is center left. So is social democracy. I was mainly thinking about neoliberalism, and such.

Pretty uninteresting. I've started reading I have no mouth and i must scream, and started playing gloomwood, too.

Both are amazing. That's all i got.

Jesus fucking christ. How cold is it in sweden???

In Saudi arabia it's like 30 degrees here and even that's enough to make me freeze. You don't even have the sun? I'd immediately freeze to death.

Yep, paradox of tolerance. We shouldn't bend over for far-right, or even fascists for the sake of "pure tolerance".

Oh, definitely. Lemmy may be smaller than most communities, but it feels organic, and more tight-knit. You see many recognizable users, there are a lot of great threads, and i think the community is pretty healthy. Other social medias may have millions of active users, but they are more focused on collecting as much internet points as possible and making their post hit off, instead of interaction with people. And it makes it feel repetitive and artificial. Main reason why i quit twitter, tired of seeing the most subpar posts from a random user with 100k likes.

And yeah, we're more spoiled nowadays, unfortunately. When i joined lemmy, i was bored due to the low amount of daily posts, unlike reddit. I still think it's a problem and we need more MAU, but we should also somewhat get used to it, too. Probably healthier for all of us.

I also prefer the new (new-old, the current one sucks) reddit UI and love photon, and i don't think it's too far fetched of an idea to want it as the default UI. I think it should be left to instances, so for example, lemmy.world could use photon for the default, yet lemmy.ml could use the default lemmy UI.

I'm still a little concerned over first impressions of a new lemmy user, when they try to use lemmy.world on a weak device, and realize it is slow, or laggy, and could sour their opinion on lemmy as a whole. A non tech savvy user might not completely understand the idea of lemmy, or clients, or even instances. They'd just blindly choose lemmy.world and assume that's the "main" instance. (I also could just be underestimating the average user's intelligence, lol.)

That's why i brought up performance as a main point to why we should keep the current lemmy UI. Maybe if photon is optimized and is more stable, i could completely agree that it should be the default.