I had an interesting exchange of thoughts about this topic over on !reddit@lemmy.ml

Someone mentioned invoking GDPR’s right to be forgotten. Although comments are not strictly personal information, it could still work. I think I’ll try it soon.

I thought I knew how awful public transport is in the US, but I haven’t seen such a visualization up until now. I can only empathize and hope for the change of culture around cars for your there. All the best!

In programming community it’s a well-known issue. Mostly because programmers often use reddit, but also because of the API discussions. A popular programming YouTuber - Fireship did a video on the topic.

There’s an excellent style available through userstyles that might make the experience more bearable. If you have some technical skill and time, you could make one that looks and behaves as old.reddit. I expect something like that will appear soon there as I hear more and more complaints about the UI.

What’s the benefit of doing this apart from a technical challenge and fun? Such a server wouldn’t support the network in any way, right?

Interesting, I wonder how does decentralized nature of fetching data from other instances affect this. Thanks for providing the reference! Will look into it.

True, mobile experience is truly terrible and must be prioritized imo

I miss more intuitive comment collapsing, I used it a lot to skip conversations faster than scrolling through them.

The whole federation thing is not intuitive for new folks. Although watching the lemmy.ml bubble is pretty funny.

I’m interested in reading more about Lenny’s privacy and internal workings, but this information is pretty hard to find.

Docs for anyone interested

I’m concerned about a reliable deletion mechanism Lemmy doesn’t care about your privacy

Reddit thread of the same story

I’m also concerned by some posts which I hope are not true:

Lemmy’s creator banned from r/socialism for posting neo nazi literature