Firefox has been as fast as chrome on most websites for some years now. Chrome was quick a decade ago, not anymore…

Oxygen not included

The thing with anything these corpos are doing is that it suddenly becomes a cultural trend for the next week or so, and every techbro and marketbro talks about it all the time. I have been trying to distance myself from this bullshit for a while now but it I find it impossible to do so. Even here we constantly talk about these idiots. No matter how much we make jokes out of them, simply coming in contact with the shit these billionaires have in their heads is indeed depressing. These people are the ruling class of the entire humanity and the best they can do for culture is idiotic social media platforms and ads.

Stupidity and greed, a great combination!

Have been using Antennapod on Android for some months now. It is by far the best app I have used. Feature rich and no ads is the best one can hope for.

Also nukes

I tried lemmur on fdroid but I think it’s dead. Hasn’t received updates in months and will not load anything.

Oh I thought OP talked about avoiding reddit in general. I have already visited it at least 3 times today looking for a solution to my laptop’s inability to connect to the internet :P I haven’t thought of avoiding it to send a message, I guess I will simply turn of the computer. I have already deleted Boost for reddit so I will simply not visit it on my phone…

Reddit has a ton of useful knowledge on it, why would I avoid it? It is not just a platform to doomscroll on… As a social media platform it’s as good as dead for me, but it is still a hyper forum with many worthwhile communities.

I applied to 3 instances when I decided to join and lemmy.ml was the only one that responded so there’s that.

Oxygen not included

Probably but it does need an investment in time that I don’t have right now.

It is in my plans to switch to Debian from Ubuntu but it’s quite the scary thought.

As a non technical user that has switched to Ubuntu from Windows, Linux is light years ahead. Any os without a decent package manager like apt or flatpak is unusable for me and that’s without mentioning the ads…

It would be great to see political communities (of the leftist kind) spring up on Lemmy.

I mean, this is not that hard to imagine. Its like saying that most people believe pineapples grow on trees.