I used to search with site:reddit.com, but the quality of research results got much worse within the last years. For big investments like let’s say a new washing machine I use a more or less independent website that tests different devices, it costs about 5€ to see the results.

All in all I need much, much more time to do research. Often I simply do not buy anything in the end. It is very frustrating.

I switched to Linux Mint, it helped as well!

1. The search in the start menu searching the fucking web with bing instead of my computer
2. Accidentally hitting F1 and Edge immediately opens with some “help”

What’s a “FOCK”?

Sometimes it’s not the “classic” happy moments but intense experiences like these that make us feel alive.

feddit.org is a good choice, folks over there are pretty moderate. However as Lemmy is federated, you will still interact with extremist instances and their users such as hexbear.net or lemmy.ml, if your instance does not defederate.

You will learn fast which communities to avoid, just block then and mind your own business.

Other comments make a point though questioning your concept of left/right.

A gym membership, my mail account (mailbox.org) and Spotify.

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It makes no sense to discuss here.They probably follow Russia’s narrative of Europe being a puppet of the US.

Lol, ml. users getting wild in the comments

It seems the NK soldiers were sent to the Kursk area, so technically not “in Ukraine”. This guy knows exactly what he is talking about.

Great news for Moldova. Hope the Russian trolls are super pissed.

The whole Cube Escape Series.

I wonder if that’s really true though. From a strategic point of view it makes not much sense to me to focus on such a tiny community as Lemmy is over the usual targets such as TikTok, Meta and Shitter.

The community is a very weird mix of Anti-Imperialists, communists and islamists.
They are not openly Russia-friendly, but they are very uncritical towards authoritarian systems. From pro-palestine over pro Hamas to pro Iran, and then you are almost there.

I sometimes wonder if it is just the US-american left going insane these days or if some corners of Lemmy are under the influence of Russian and Chinese troll factories.

Time to raise an issue! I think markdown should be limited to the text body of a post…

Lemmy.ml is doomed. You were unlucky to pick the wrong instance. It’s one of the downside of federated Lemmy that .ml is the oldest instance, leading to many cool communities being hosted there. The only way is to start that community on another instance that is not .ml or .world and staying patient.

Hexbear and lemnygrad are not even a choice.

Ah yeah, a Migrant processing offshore plant (MPOP). Sounds very humane!

I wanted to name both Bosnia and Serbia at first, but the thing is - Bosnia and Herzegovina is not a functional country, whereas Serbia is (even if authoritarian and sucking Putin’s dick). The Serbs have high influence in Bosnia, they even have an own state (Republic iof Srpska), then there is the autonomous Brcko District.

Bosnia is fucking complicated and far away from being a stable country. Look up the Dayton Treaty if you want to dive a bit into it, it’s pretty interesting.

Wow, waiting for Bosnia must be a huge disappointment for Albania and North Macedonia. This is probably not gonna happen in the next 15 years…