That really synthetises why I dislike microblogging so much: It's a bunch of people throwing small-talk and rage bait everywhere, all the time.
Considering a lot of people are really bad at conservation in every possible way, it also makes sense why microblogging is so much more popular than forum-like platforms.
I'm actually spending more time in here than I ever (proportionately) spent on Reddit 👀
But I agree, I'm definitely more at home in here, discussions are more relevant and with way less noise. The fact there's no "karma counter" attached to our profiles also makes things more comfortable since we don't feel the pressure to always be agreeable. It's fine to have disagreements sometimes, but the karma system made people too wary of doing so.
For a country that seem so bullish on FREEDOM, they're oh so heavily surveilled. Possibly among the most surveilled citizens in the world, since we don't really know to what extent both their own government and their big corporations spy on them, but we always keep discovering more and more.
To be honest, having good frontends for accessing the fediverse on mobile devices isn't really a waste of time, as it helps introducing the fediverse to more people. It's also more convenient for some users, I prefer to access Lemmy through Jerboa for example.
But there are always possibilities to increase compatibility and ease of use between the diverse ActivityPub platforms, there could be something like "templating interfaces" for different content formats, for example. I think it's mostly a matter of time and adoption, the more users something has, the more developers we can have, who'll be interested in making things more accessible and frictionless.
I'll still try it with Jerboa, but it worked really well through the default UI (accessing your instance directly through the browser, as in feddit.nl/c/techlore@neat.tube for example)
There are already some issues open on Lemmy's github about transferring data between instances, so it has good chances of being implemented (although there isn't a timeline for when it could happen). I just don't think things like comments, posts and votes can be transferred, at least for now.
I'll get Furina since collecting archons is a safe bet. Aside from her I'm still evaluating who I really want (possibly Arlechinno, Navia and Neuvillete).
I'm much more interested in the lore and hoping hoyo finally starts moving the celestia/abyss plot forward big time. It's about time we see some real big stuff to happen.
Same for me, with family and full-time work, but I can probably set up a bot during vacation to check for these sources. If I set it up to just check for stuff every two hours or so I don't think I'll hit any kind of rate limit.
Firefox, Termux, VLC, Jerboa, LiftOff, PPSSPP