Should we be fine with being treated as second class citizens just because Russia is worse? Of course people will react emotionally and not completely logically, many feel that their country has been humiliated and exploited.

The fact that a single country can just blackmail others in this way, to achieve its own goals doesn’t sound like a union to me. And with such cases russophiles begin to appear more and more right.

The EU needs major reforms in that area to make sure no one can abuse it. And blaming people for being fed up, with 12 years being used as scapegoats by various populists, is directing the blame towards the wrong people.

As I previously stated, I’m an avid supporter of the EU and our membership in it, but it can’t go on in this state.

Which requirements exactly? Taking in Austria’s immigrants so their populists can brag that they’ve saved their country?

The requirements have been met a long time ago, and so says the European Commission. I guess Austria is the only enlightened in the whole EU to determine that Bulgaria and Romania are not ready.

Even as a strong believer in a united Europe, I can’t blame people getting eurosceptic, seeing how our supposed allies treat us.

Fair enough

Isn’t that intentional though? I don’t believe many instances, especially the small ones, can afford to federate every community. Sure, sometimes it can be a bit annoying but you can always check on lemmyverse.

Lemmy has been feeling pretty empty the past couple of days. That just really goes to show how important federation really is.

Since 1.19 launched it is. Now you can export your subscriptions and settings to another Lemmy account

It’s not dead. Sure a few instances have gone down, for which I’m very sad, but it doesn’t mean lemmy is dead. Even with these setbacks I remain hopeful and still believe in the fediverse.

It’s always the small instances full of passion.

Memes are meant to be shared, and it’s a great way to grow small communities. Karma whoring is not that big here since reputation points are not shown (at least in the webUI). So a person will post a few memes and could start a conversation, something a bot can’t do.

It’s seems like you ignored my point entirely just to argue on a technicality. As I asked, should Reddit content reposted by bots be something a new user should see?

Also browsing /all is a great way to discover new communities, but even if you don’t browse it bot communities find their way into the discover communities tab, which makes it more difficult for people find the communities that they want to follow.

I see what you’re trying to accomplish and congratulate you for trying to make Lemmy a better place, but I don’t think it’s a good idea. As many people here I’ve blocked @bot@lemmit.online precisely because it just posts Reddit content and floods my feed, with what is basically spam. Also many people came here just to avoid Reddit and to try and make something better. Sure, when 0.19.0 comes out and people will be able to block instances, lemmings will have a choice if they want to see that instance, but what about new users, or people just checking Lemmy out? Do we really want them to see reposted reddit content? Because they can already do this on reddit. What we need is to stop being so invested in “our ex” and just grow as a community, in a natural way.

What don’t you like in the memmy UI?

Please stop making new communities.

You’re right. I tried it and I can only see it through my instance

What happens if you post in the community through lemmy? Does the post appear only in lemmy, or only to you, or does it just break?

It has already replaced reddit for a lot of people. It would be difficult to surpass it, but after all it doesn’t matter how many users a social media has if most of them are lurkers. From what I’ve seen on Lemmy, people are more willing to engage with others. I’m one of those people, in the two years I was on reddit I didn’t make a single comment or post. Maybe it’s because the fediverse is much smaller than reddit and feels more like a community. In that case I wouldn’t hurry to “replace” reddit.