Honestly, after WW2 and the horrors of it and the Holocaust, I’m mildly surprised that Germany wasn’t intentionally “collapsed” in a permanent way. Not just its division into zones but permanently dissolved as a geopolitical entity, with the allies flooding their respective zones with people to settle, work, and live in the region, and encouraging the German people to travel to their countries to dilute/absorb/assimilate the people and culture to the point that the actual land effectively became something between a territory and a colony of each ally (or even an outright annexation), with no moves toward creation of East and West Germany, nor any consideration of reunification.

I guess time has a way of healing wounds, but given the impact of the war and the acts of the nazi regime, I would have expected the allies, post-war to do everything in their power to prevent a German state from ever existing again.

Admittedly, I’m not as familiar with that time period as I am with the war itself, and such ideas are always easier said than done…but that’s always seemed like a more realistic course of events, to me, than what actually happened.

Heerily

Can’t tell if that typo was intentional or not…

It also takes a minute to save.

I did it three or four times before it actually locked in and remembered that adjustment, and until then I was having the same issue as OP.

Yeah I’m still doubtful that they’ll change course on any of this at this point, or that the protests will get any of the satisfaction they’re hoping for…but it seems like… perhaps even bigger picture… it’s hitting Reddit where it hurts the most for someone in spez’s shoes: image to investors, both personally and as a platform/product.

When your idea of “tidying up the place to get ready for an IPO” galvanizes the community into action, creates personal drama with a local folk hero equivalent, triggers a strike that breaks the site, and makes the news for all the wrong reasons… that’s gotta make investors at least a little bit curious, I would think.

Red bananas are totally a thing!

What app are you using?

Bad take.

Someone can point out the issues that lead to their dissatisfaction without it being a case of “then you should leave”.

I don’t think that’s the sort of attitude we should be adopting in this community, and certainly not at this stage in the game.

I’m just a bit shy of 300K karma on my Reddit account. Over about 11.5 years.

I’ll miss my account for sure…unless an alternative platform becomes as complete an environment. As of now, there’s nowhere else I can go online to participate in a deep dive discussion on specific fishing tackle, then look at a Lord of the Rings meme, then see good discussion about my favorite hockey team, then a discussion post about a local craft beer fest in my city, then come back to the fishing tackle discussion to find a dozen new posts. Hell, I’ve been trying for 3 days and cannot for the life of me find even a single fishing community (sublemmy?) that has any activity, and the ones I have found, I can’t seem to add to my accounts subscription list. I know I should create my own, socially speaking, but if even subscribing to one is beyond my ability, I’m guessing forming one of my own is right out.

Lemmy has potential and I’m hoping it does the job…but as of right now, I’m skeptical. I like the idea of the “fediverse” but so far, it just seems too unintuitive and too decentralized to attract and retain the casual user. Combine that with this current deluge of redditors hitting all at once without hordes of already established communities, and I guess I just fear that the platform won’t be able to maintain enough of a critical mass to create and sustain a community.

This.

The app is where they can control the user the most while gathering maximum data.

So now they’re just going about the process of making the app the only way to access their site.

Absolutely!

I used Baconreader when I first joined Reddit, then switched to an iPhone and got Alienblue just weeks before it went away, switched to Apollo and loved it, but it’s iOS only, so when I switched back to Android I had to leave it. Wasn’t super impressed with Baconreader by then, so I tried out several others (RiF, Sync, etc.) and Sync was my favorite. Been using it for years.

I’d be absolutely delighted to have it for Lemmy.

Jury is still out for me whether I’ll stay here, but having Sync for Lemmy would go a long way!

The learning curve is definitely steeper here, which will be a barrier to a lot of the most casual users.

If I’m betting, I’m still betting he sees no real punishment that actually hurts him in any way…buuuuuuut…one big thing here as opposed to his impeachments is that it comes down to a jury and is only about whether he did the things or not. With impeachment, it’s much more a political vote than a true judgement of actions.

It comes from the same place as the deeply held but mutually exclusive beliefs that the government is both totally stupid and incompetent but also so capable and efficient that they are somehow carrying out massive conspiracies on the entire citizenry.

Once you find something you like there, how do you subscribe?

r/pens and r/fountainpens too!

Like you, I am not terribly active there but I enjoy lurking on both.

Super small drill followed by an easy out?

If that doesn’t work I think you’re safely within “drill it out” territory.