It’s because a lot of people migrating from Reddit landed on .world and created or found their familiar named communities and that’s how it was on Reddit - US centric top level type communities.

Is .world the best place for US centric communities? Maybe not just based on nomenclature but since you asked why, that’s the reasoning. It’s in the description of Politics specifically (it even calls out migrating Redditors).

Memmy’s on the App Store now. It does still have a TestFlight if there are any spots available but the app store’s version is currently up to date.

lemmy.ml is down right now. You’re going to have to wait until it’s back up to ask them - this question/answer is just local to lemm.ee until it comes back up and can appropriately federate.

Do you have ‘hide read posts’ checked in your profile? That option hides your own posts, too, because naturally you’ve read them.

How do you think Meta and other similar companies attract advertisers? They sell ad space to them with the ability to highly target ads to their users.

That’s what I mean by sell - they are literally letting advertisers buy ads to target to all of the people who they’ve gotten information about that would most likely click on and convert to buyers. Non-targeted ads are significantly less valuable from an advertising standpoint because if they don’t apply to you, you’re more likely to ignore it and the advertiser is getting less money back on their ad purchase investment.

I love how you say ‘almost every app’ and then your three examples include two Meta apps and also Twitter. Their whole business models are to gather as much as possible to sell.

Not every app needs your health data, financial information, and usage data to send short messages to their friends. I get wanting a certain amount of data in order to do certain things but needing basically everything possible frankly SHOULD BE eye opening to people if they didn’t already know.

I mean, did anyone think it wasn’t basically spyware?

When you’re trying to find a community, in the search type in the whole URL. So for your example you should be able to make the instance find the community by typing in https://hobbit.world/c/hobbit_art in search all.

Like so:

Considering Meta mines as much data from as many people as possible just to advertise to them and also they can’t even launch Threads in the EU right now because of how aggressively it tracks literally everything about their users and Threads’ only purpose is to gather more data to sell to more people, I think that alone is worth not letting them play.

I gotta say, sometimes I miss my fully customized LED on my blackberry back in the day. It could be in the bottom of a gym bag and I’d still know if I missed a Google Talk message (green) or a Facebook alert (dark blue) or an email (light blue), etc etc etc.

So you’re saying you don’t want insightful, thoughtful comments from u/rimjob_steve this time around?

They’ll probably get mad that people can take their ball and go home by going to another instance without ads and signing away access to all of their personal data but get the same content. If they defederate, to me that’s the trash taking itself out.

I actually have it associated with a free cap one 360 savings account (like, account details, no debit card associated) with just enough in it to cover the bill in case I forget to pay it with my preferred payment method. As long as you pay a couple days before autopay was supposed to hit, it’s fine. For me, for example, autopay would be on the 5th of each month but I have a calendar reminder to pay manually on the 2nd of each month - but you can even schedule the payment if you want to, like when you get your bill you can set it up to charge your card whenever as long as you don’t touch your autopay method.

It’s been working for me for a couple months. No issues so far. If T-Mobile changes things to disallow the discount this way, then this doesn’t apply but as of right now, July 4, 2023 I’ve done it the last 3 billing cycles and it is working currently.

Yeah I have an old savings account I keep just enough for my bill that I set up as the autopay account in case I forget to pay manually on my card. If something happens, it’s separate from all of my other money so it won’t destroy my life for a while while I fight to get my money back.

You can tell T-Mobile to have autopay on a debit card or bank account but still pay with whatever payment method you want, it’s just an extra step of going in to manually do it every month.

Three total, but was using lemmy.world as my main until recently with all the groaning under the pressure of all the new signups so yesterday I spent about an hour or so methodically recreating my subscribe feed on lemm.ee

Nothing at all against the admins over at .world but when it’s pushing the absolute limits of capacity with all the new people coming by, it makes for a different experience all together on a smaller instance. Course because it’s hiccuping over there I’m seeing some significant delays in federation but whaddyagonnado.