I don’t know how it would have differed from Reddit in this regard, but it would be quite suitable for a forum website to give thorough reviews of books. Some people give reviews of books on Tiktok where they just say the main topic of the book and that it’s ‘good’… good in what way? And like what other commenters have mentioned, some love too for nonfiction. Maybe we could even have discussions for fanfiction?
It’s almost a relief that I was (relatively) recently introduced to 3rd party apps that it made me care enough to move to Kbin in protest of Reddit’s actions. The future there is bleak.
And now how exactly do we mention people with untypable usernames?
It’s funny how he calls the moderators landed gentry, when he is the one benefitting from the mods’ unpaid labor, all because they wanted to maintain their community, and then calls them squatters. In my culture, that sort of language means that he’s trying to mock the moderators for being squatters “aspiring to be landed gentry”… then if you put his comments about owning slaves in an apocalyptic scenario into perspective… honestly I have no words left.
And all those “subtle insults” for the community just makes me wonder, why do people even want to benefit him, or be associated with him? This man was the ultimate reason why I left, not even the fact that I was a 3rd party user.
I’m not sure about lemmy since I’m primarily a kbin user, but the mobile website is already really good to begin with. I just use Hermit to make it even more “app-like” with features like full screen and frameless. I even did the same to the websites of some of my other apps.
What karma? Spez started it by being a liar 🤷♂️ so I say it is natural that people stop supporting him.