You are spot on and it’s infuriating in the opposite direction. I sub to a small local city sub reddit and people will post the same question every day instead of just doing a quick search to find that their same question has been asked 20 times this month.

For a while, I was still using reddit to go to those small niche subs, but now they are garbage too

The comments have gotten just as bad too. Trolls and Bots everywhere. No moderation. Also, the voting system works well when it’s mostly sane and intelligent people there. Now the dumbest comments get upvoted super high and any long critical, intelligent responses get downvoted to oblivion.

I love this one. I’m usually excited for others too. I haven’t taken a travel vacation in close to a decade so I love to live vicariously through others travels. Tell me everything of what you are going to do and what you are going to see. I want to hear all of it.

It’s very hard to do. I can only go into what helped with me but I schedule it in. Everything else in my life is basically scheduled so you have to make the time. Meditation

I meditate 30 minutes every other day. It’s helped significantly. Think of it like a gym schedule and hold yourself to it. Obviously there is never enough time in the day to do everything you want but this thing is one of the most important at this point.

Wait you can even view reddit on a 3rd party app at all? Which app playoffs the $10m to still work with reddit?

Purgatory

So much this! Plus being able to discuss a free agent pickup or trade. I need that back.

The other communities i miss were my local state and city.

Co-ops

I was liking Lemmy until now. Now I love it

Is that even possible?? How can the app developer not know?

Let’s take location for instance. Google can send to the app no data or the location. The app developers can tell if no data is sent back.

Google would have to develop, on its own against its own financial interests, a way to send random locations to the app. The app develop is going to easily see though that this data is not correct.

So even if Google decided to invest in this for the users, the app developers are still going to know

Someone explained it a little better in another post. It will not erase my content. So if I’m logged in under my lemm.ee account but post on a lemmy.world instance. If for some reason lemm.ee got defederized, my post or comments would still be there at lemmy.world I would just not be able to use my lemm.ee account going forward.

It seems like this is the way to go like OP says

That’s my biggest worry right now. With the how increase of people coming over from reddit, there is bound to be turmoil and fragmentation. I just want to know what to do that is best for getting stability going forward

I have a 10 year old account. I saw that some people were trying to sell their accounts on ebay but it doesn’t look like too many people are buying right now.