the alternative is not perfect either so why not just stay

It does work for a lot of people. Seeing they need to change and adapt if they do change, and it seemingly seems to be as bad as what they’re using now, why change and face headaches and hassle.

annoying that they get preachy about it

how to do that?

Instances admins would start to advocate to defederate from them just like with Meta’s Threads IMO.

I use Private Internet Access (PIA) and that has port forwarding. I read something about it on reddit but forgot about it, so idk of there’s anything bad it controversial surrounding PIA.

Cant read the article due to paywall

Woah, when did The Verge have a paywall?

someone in that department is getting a promotion, I bet

idk I prefer florisboard more in general

but currently they don’t have any autocorrect or swipe typing

Never heard of this one before. too bad it doesn’t have a mobile version as well.

I’m kind of am using both on desktop and mobile equally. back when i was active on reddit, I use mobile apps to browse and save comments to later interact and respond more easily on desktop.

the third thing, is it possible it’s sublink or something like that?

piefed seems to be the third defacto for now, but you already said that’s not what you meant.

I’d love that. I still need to go looking for an instance that I can fit in and just block and curate myself.

How is the moist instance? is it stable and relatively quick? I’m partial to stay with mbin instances more than Lemmy but I’m still open to anything really.

It’s interesting though, and somewhat nostalgic. It feels like how I was pruning my reddit subscriptions and all. Or twitter. Or other social media. Idk how go through the noise by not pruning what they follow.

Noted. It does feel like I do have to go look for “the one” instance like that. Sucks as a lurker; that’s my default mode lol.

Thanks. That’s a slight shame. I’ve only been trying out lemmy / threadiverse for just a few days (second attempt. first attempt was back on reddit APIcalypse) and for now I’m liking mbin a bit more than lemmy. fedia.io being the biggest instance, so that’s why I registered there first. next biggest mbin instance is a bit less stable.

I suppose it’s still early days for me so I can afford to jump around for now to see what instance sticks, and I guess the software as well.

Hmm, I see. This is interesting. It gives me the feeling that I either would “have to” have a generalist account on the least defederated instance to have as wide a net (kind of my early times on reddit), or I would have specialized accounts to specific topics in multiple instances.

Sorry, I wouldn’t know. I’m new and slowly dipping into lemmy and eventually other parts of fediverse. I’m curious too, but idk if I should ask fedia.io’s admin about it.