The community vibe is definitely a huge motivation. They want to be able to control the sort of people on their instance which they can’t do if the mass user bases from lemmy.world etc. that are (relatively) neutral have access. It’s a shame because they had some good communities established.

Help was there when you needed it, even for niche software or usecases there was more often than not someone who had already asked the question or who could help. This has been invaluable every time I’ve tried something new (eg. Making a static website, learning Spanish, switching to Linux.)

I’m pretty sure it just doesn’t suit New Zealand right now to call him a dictator, especially with a visit coming up in a week. Australia and New Zealand have to occupy a precarious position because they are European/Western in nature but obviously closest to the Asian powers. Therefore they have to try and be besties with the US whilst staying ok with China.

NTA she’s probably just insecure about having eaten the chocolate faster than she thought.

Mainly that there are really solid midrange android phones nowadays. I just can’t justify the iPhone pricetag.

I’m guessing most of the Beehaws at least have duplicates since they cut themselves off.

That’s gotta be the most insane anthropogenic impact I’ve ever heard.

It’s hard to turn more conservative without actually owning a stake in anything as our parents did.

That should definitely be illegal.

Yeah I assume the reason there isn’t is because the general ones are US-centric by default and then everyone else has to have somewhere specific to go. But I guess if they want their own dedicated place too why not?