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Why?

Because tea. Because full English breakfast. Because of decency and orderly queuing. Because of a searing sense of guilt over the despoliation of our empire and the human suffering our ancestors caused, because of the British Expeditionary force, Agincourt, the battle of Britain, two finger stuck up to Hitler, because of Watney’s Red Barrel and the empire never setting on the sun, because of Boudicca and black pudding and single malt whisky and most of us being able to say ‘bottle’ rather than our American chums who say ‘boddle’, because of Shakespeare, Christie, Wodehouse, (but fuck Rowling), because of Douglas Adams and Michael Moorcock, Tolkien, Carroll, Defoe, the Brontes and all that lot, wandering lonely, Byron, Shelley, Frankenstein, Dracula, Carry On films, because of the Beatles and the Stones, and Alabama 3, and punk, and goth (“Hey now, hey now now!”), and Taskmaster and Python, the Goodies, Eric Morecambe, Ronnie Barker, Porridge, Fools, Horses, Red Dwarf, Sapphire and Steel, fish and chips, chip butties, (Yorkshire) fishcake butties, the sandwich, country houses, the ha-ha, afternoon tea, fights over whether it’s scone or scone, whether the cream goes on first or the jam, the BBC, the NHS, the RAF, HP sauce, knowing how to say ‘Worcestershire’, Hendo’s Relish, gin and tonic, English mustard, salt and vinegar everything, ploughman’s lunch, zoider, Formula 1, because of a deep-seated shame at Brexit and the rise of a cunt like Farage, because of Bletchley Park, Tower Bridge and Stone ‘enge, because of football, rugby, cricket, and golf, because of Dr Who and Top Gear and the Great British Bake-Off and TV shows which are cool but sometimes problematic, because of generally trying to do the right thing but all too often being too little, too late, because of nil points at the Eurovision Song Contest, because of endless optimism every time there’s a World Cup and spaffing that hope up the wall…

Because I care enough to have written all of this.

Voyager app for mobile Tesseract or photon UI on desktop

I tried using piefed but Rimu is toxic and hardcodes stuff like blacklists directly into the code.

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On desktop

• https://phtn.app/ with custom theme
• Location: Subscribed
• Sort by: New
• View: Compact
• Navigate with vimium keybindings in Firefox

This is my happy place, browsing with this setup feels incredibly cozy.

On mobile iOS:

• Voyager
• Communities: Home
• Sort by: New

Almost all posts I see this way are highly relevant to my interests. I love both photon’s and Voyager‘s UX.

Let’s see. Went with dbzer0 because I liked some things about them. Some things are weird but not disagreeable or offensive. I like how they’re mostly for freedom of speech and I feel they’re mostly like minded individuals. Just felt it was a good fit. Maybe not for everyone though.

I use Mlem on my phone and I just use the browser (Safari) on my computer. I’m a longtime Firefox user, but Firefox and Lemmy don’t get along well. Always runs like shit here; Safari doesn’t and I don’t hate it. It’s not like Edge on a Windows machine, which I couldn’t do.

I browse /all, sub to comms that interest me and block ones I never wanna see. Like it’s not personal, I browse /all to see what’s there but some stuff I just don’t wanna see. So I don’t.

Lastly, there’s my personal disengage policy. Not to be confused with dbzer0’s. Basically I don’t engage with vitriol, and if a conversation heads that way, depending on my mood, I’ll try to turn it back towards civility, or simply ignore. No block, no downvote, I just walk away and let them have the last word.

The most boring way: lemmy.world on browser. Somehow among all the comments I am the only one doing it this way

I like Lemmy best. I use a few instances, but I’m mostly chilling here on world. Website via FF or Eternity app.

I watch urbanist content on peertube at urbanists.video. I use the website, thorium, or newpipe.

I never liked Twitter, but I have an infrequently used Fosstodon profile. Fedilab app.

I use the Reddthat instance because it was un-intrusive to set up an account. You don’t even need an email to set up an account, just username and password like the good ol’ days.

Dbzer0 cuz it was the freest instance I could find. I’m anti-ai, but they haven’t banned or censored me for it, so I’ve just decided to stick with it. I have a quokk.au alt but I don’t like the UX of piefed so I don’t use it much. I happen to align mostly with their politics though so that worked out.

I’m pretty much only on Voyager. How I spend most of my time here: I default to the all page, hide all scores, and block every community that I’m not interested in, and subscribe to ones that seem active and have decent posts. Then randomly browse my home page every week or two.

piefed on browser.

I use Summit on mobile because the dev included all my feature requests, so it’s an app built for me, at least for the features I use. They’re a very active developer, and it will hopefully stick around for a long time. On a real computer, I just use the plain website. I do most of my stuff on mobile so I can save drafts. I prep most of my posts ahead of time and I tend to write long things.

I’ve stuck with lemmy.world because they’re big. I don’t want my stuff to just up and disappear one day. I’ve got a lot invested here, content wise, and the .world admin have been really nice to me in the handful of times I’ve interacted with them and they’ve supported me in my real life activities pertaining to wildlife.

I’m primarily here to post owl related educational content and animal rehab stories. It started out of curiosity and now thanks to regularly posting here, I became a rehab volunteer last year.

I’ll also post to news and politics posts if I feel I have something useful to add, but with world events getting worse, those communities get a bit too angry sometimes and I stay out.

When I don’t have owl questions to answer, I scroll by Top 6 Hours so there’s a chance people will still reply to my comments. I ignore the ragebait and find I still get juuuust enough content I don’t feel oversaturated.

i don’t have an internet-connected phone, so it’s pc browser only. i have a few /c/ i look at and then all sorted by new. i use one instance at home and a different one at the office.

Scroll new/all (with a well-prepared blocklist) so relatively agnostic towards the instance, the only thing I focus on is trying to find one least likely to fold in a month when the group running it realize that spam/bots/costs need to be taken into consideration.

Piefed, since it’s such a more polished experience compared to Lemmy.

I’ve given Mastodon, Loops and Pixelfed many chances but they never provide content that holds my interest.

I use retrolemmy.com on a browser on a mobile. Though, I’ve used some of front-ends for mobile such as Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, etc. but I encountered network issues so I switched back to using browser.

I started on lemmy.sdf.org because of the zero blocked/blocked by, and I stayed because it’s a cool organisation and the instance community is really happening.

I use the browser frontend, but always over Tor Browser, which I guess is semi-weird.