I've been on Reddit for 9yrs, and have seen loads of recycled post content, which is definitely a thing. Even for the karma-farmers, though, there's at least a usefulness in bringing interesting content to new users who hadn't seen it before. And yeah, sometimes bots will replicate comments in such threads from years earlier. This is also a thing.
But across my ~dozen curated streams I see about 10% of that stuff, and 90% actual fresh content, including actual commenters that one can interact with if one merely tries. (have you?)
So part of my point is this-- if you're browsing vanilla Reddit and complaining about the experience, then you're telling me that you haven't made any significant attempt to set up your Reddit acct properly, up to and including failing to set up RES properly.
And if so, what you're telling me in short here is that you don't know what you're talking about.
This is a silly/ridiculous narrative that simply isn't true.
I'm on both places, and have been doing my best to grow things on the Lemmy side for ~2yrs now, but Reddit is still invaluable to me for plenty of fresh and authentic talk across a number of subjects. Yes, botting may be a problem here and there, and power-tripping mods exist (at both places, actually), but overall Reddit is still a robust, useful site.
Now, do I like forward to the Fediverse growing and attracting more users over time to more and more niche communities? ABS-SO-LUTELY.
But I think we have to make that happen by producing quality comments, posts and communities, not by declaring false victories, nor by making completely disingenuous comments.
I'm fully onboard with all the critique listed here, but I'm afraid I do still use R on a daily basis. Why? Because of sheer (and original / non-bot) traffic, I guess.
This tends to mean that highly-useful, knowledgeable, expert-level commentary is still produced there in significant quantities, even if it does mean sifting hard through the dreck to find it. And that stuff can be hugely useful to me.
That said, I feel like Lemmy has a significantly higher signal-to-noise ratio, so it doesn't have to be remotely as big as R in order to achieve the same level of usefulness, and indeed, L is certainly useful right here and right now.
But I guess the other thing is that most of the smaller and niche communities here could really use a membership boost. Maybe with the next reddit screw-up, that will happen, hehe.
FWIW, I freaked out once over something relatively minor across the Lemmy-modality, and the dev (one of the two, can't remember which) was just a calm, gem of a person upon my temporary paranoia.
Man, I was... blown away.
(thought I was going to be banned to hell, yadda-yadda)
For example, I've had fairly good success upon a range of animal companions going back to early childhood, but a few years ago, I made the mistake of taking on a 'problem cat' from a family friend.
Such a beautiful creature, but she just couldn't... settle down, I guess are the words. Now me, living with a terminal disease is already hard, but unfortunately, that rascal just turned it up to '11,' bless her lil heart. So in the end, I had to donate her to a local no-kill shelter. Not my finest moment, but the lack of sleep was pretty-much the lynchpin, for me.
I love cats, but I just... haha, kinda got spooked hard by that experience.
Wow... nice!
Indeed, that reminds me of what I've learned of Indian cooking, a little bit. For example, I understand that sauteing seeds like cumin and coriander (getting back to cilantro, hah) in "ghee" (clarified butter) is a great / classic way to get the essential flavors of the seeds / ingredients in to the oil component, which can later be transferred towards something else that's freshly cooked, like dal (lentils) or pollo.
I love that move, holding off on cooking the culantro until the last bit of time, or even having it fresh, a bit like parsley. It's just too easy to lose the flavor when cooked too early!
That said, I try to use every bit of the bunch, so will often mini-slice the stems and put them in near the end.
Thanks for the extensive write-up and advice, mate!
Considering how well it (accidentally) went last time, I'm intrigued about trying a fast again. Still amazed about the burst of energy I got when my stomach finally healed.
Bookmarking this convo for later, and thanks again. :D
Ah no, I was just kind of amazed that such a device exists!
Oh, but when I looked it up, most models around here seem to go for US$200+, and IIRC there are only two non-prescrip models widely available in the States. Anyway, I'm a big fan of eating low-glycemic food, including limiting one's carbs.
That's really cool that you've found a way to help your friends like that. Over here, from what I've heard, it sounds like diabetes in SEA based on eating regular amounts of white rice is a real problem...
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