Thank you! I automatically block political communities and also news (because it’s mostly American shitfuckery) and I don’t like seeing it, it makes me feel like shit. Thanks for posting up some great suggestions.

I hope FMHY comes back. Didn’t realise how much I liked it until it was gone.

and still better than using official Reddit app (and still better than Reddit overall) lol

OK sure. I was somewhat sure it was an attack on Lemmy.World and not something on my end. Still not good, stay safe Lemmy! Good job on the admins for their quick actions.

So would monetising user data be a more accurate statement than data privacy?

38 year old moderately tech savvy person here, much more hardware savvy than software if that makes sense? When the whole reddit thing exploded, I concluded that I was pretty much going to stop using reddit once Boost stopped working. Then I saw someone mention Lemmy in a comment so I searched it up and here I am. I didn’t know there was a reddit alternative, or a Twitter, instagram or YouTube (decentralised) alternative. Just finding out all this now. I didn’t even think of centralised VS decentralised until the last few days, this is all new to me and still wrapping my head around the whole federation concept, particularly with the Meta etc. I feel like I need an ELI5 on that concept but I’m still yet to search and find if an ELI5 community exists here lol

But I think it makes sense that the demographic might be older. I don’t want to shoehorn any age group into one large generalisation but I’d dare assume that under 30-40s are happy to be where their peers are? And to be clear, I’m not an instagram/twitter/tiktok user. And I only use Facebook for a side business I ran and it’s marketplace.