Maybe wherever you live. In first world countries, it’s fairly straightforward.

Ah, so it’s, like, a brutalist, function over form preference?

From your perspective - yes, exactly that and I think that’s probably the best way you can understand it.

From my perspective, the old.reddit.com UI (with RES) is possibly the most beautifully designed web page I’ve ever encountered. I certainly couldn’t have used it almost daily for the past 12 years if that wasn’t the case.

I can focus on content much better when the UI is breathing. And I prefer clients that have images already expanded, to save me the clicks.

I can understand and respect that while thinking you’re insane. If I had to guess, your formative experience with technology was via touch screens and I think that would go a long way to explaining your preferences.

For me, post uniformity is important. It feels like I’m in control of the experience and I’m browsing rather than having things shoved in my face. I have Imagus installed so I only need to hover over a link to see the picture and so I can just look at the pictures I’m interested in - one at a time.

Full disclosure - my earliest experiences in the Internet were bulletin boards and that probably had a formative part in my preferences. I’m also probably undiagnosed something.

Information density and minimal whitespace. Can’t stand this trend of only using the middle third of the screen.

Not working for me.

In that you know to avoid the weirdo in the corner wearing a “Ask me why I know morse code” t-shirt at the party?

Tl;dr Italy invented the pizza but the US invented the pizzeria.

Really appreciate the response - thank you.

I just had a handful of domains tick over renewal on Google Domains in the past week, so I suppose I’ll have some time to see what Squarespace is like from an administration perspective before I end up having to commit to renewing with them.

In what way?

https://opencollective.com/mastodonworld

It even takes less of a cut than Patreon too.

Any reason you’re not just sticking with Squarespace?

That’s adding storage, which is comparatively cheap.

For more simultaneous users, you need more CPU/RAM. That’s where the monthly cost shoots up fast.

You seem to know what you’re taking about.

Why would the Beehaw admins make Beehaw a Lemmy instance? Would it not be easier to achieve what they want through an old-style bulletin board or literally any other forum software?

This feels very much like using a laptop as an umbrella. You can, but why would you?

I don’t think you’re technically wrong, but I think with the reddit migration it’s overall damaging to the concept of a fediverse to have a large instance defederate with two huge instances.

There are people who are just getting settled only to find out they now have to use two accounts to access the content they needed one for yesterday.

RES is hanging onto life with its fingernails - it’s been in maintenance mode for the past 18 months or so with only 2 people actively working on it (at its peak in 2015ish, I think this was closer to 30).

By their own admission, they wouldn’t be able to survive any major breaking changes.

I first started browsing reddit in late 2011 and even by then it felt a little like I was arriving at a party that had already been going a while and people had their in-jokes and cliques (to a way lesser extent than today).

In the best possible way, Lemmy/kbin feels a lot like we all arrived early and the host is still running around trying to make sure everything’s ready.