Actually I don’t feel that for any instance, be they extreme right left or center.

Let the users pick for themselves, instead of forcing them into a position.

If it seems wild to you to fedrate with Metq, why don’t you just defederate yourself then?

Because you actually have that power. You yourself can decide.

If .world deferates the entire instance, people like me who wants to federate with them no longer has a choice.

Yadda yadda yadda… You can just block them yourself. No need to force everyone to miss out on them, just because you may think it’s wrong to federate with them.

I was really on-board of the idea of Lemmy in the beginning. It all made a lot of sense, and I felt like a part of the community.

But now it feels like its just an echo chamber of people, who seems to have very extreme beliefs.

It’s starting to be clear that the whole “ML - Leninism Marxism” was actually a big part of Lemmy.

I’m a centrist, slightly leaning towards the left, but I don’t feel like I truly belong in the demographic of Lemmy any longer. Reddit is starting to pull me back, and Boost still works, which only makes it harder to resist…

Thanks? lol

You are very active in your own topic. Feels like you genuinely care.

Now let’s switch the table, shall we? Which VPN do you use?

Yes, correct.

I’ve done a lot of digging, and the only concern I’ve found is that the company is somehow connected to PureVPN.

I’m not paranoid, so for me this is fine. Take your own threat model into consideration.

Funnily enough, Ivacy knows basically nothing about me, since I bought the offer through a 3rd party site. I have nothing registered on my Ivacy account, aside from my email and password.

Ivacy VPN

Got a lifetime deal for 30 bucks.

Hopefully the meme-posters will stay on Reddit

Look, I’m all for reminiscing about “the good ole days” of YouTube, but let’s be honest - the 5-star-system was pretty useless, and was used in the same was as up/down thumbs.

You would either rate the video 5 stars or 1 star. Always.

The switch to thumbs up/down made it much more easy to judge a video. And with the green/red bar beneath, you badicslly had a more condensed star-rating.

YouTube (or rather Google) have made a lot of bad decisions regarding the platform over the years, but I sincerely think that switching to thumbs was a good change.