It’s painful to read stories like this. I really feel for all the people who can’t afford to see a doctor whenever they need it.
I live in Spain and here we have a social security network paid by the people through taxes. It has its flaws, as probably everything has, but we have people here saying that it doesn’t work and we’d be better paying for private insurances to get better attention and pay less taxes.
The thing is that today a private insurance can cost 50-100€ per person, something completly affordable, but what the people saying this doesn’t take into account is that the private companies have a backup with the national health service. The private insurance is great for small things, seeing your physician, a small surgery… but if you have a serious problem they’ll send you to the national health service to be treated.
I hope you can have a proper treatment for your illness and that it doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg. I also hope that your country can find a way to help everyone equally and not just those who can afford it.
The cop is clearly guilty but you forgot to mention that the kid was driving without any driver license and insurance and the car was stolen. This guy was looking for trouble.
Well, I mean let's be realistic. This is never going to kill reddit (though it might lower the content quality quite a bit). Don't underestimate how many people just don't care, who just want to scroll and read in their favorite subs. The people already using the official app. Those people aren't going anywhere.
But I'm sort of very okay with that, to be honest. We don't need ALL reddit users to come here. I've noticed I like the quiet here. Comments won't get snowed over within 3 minute, people seem to be more polite and decent, commenting on posts older than a day is still 'viable.' These are all positives in my book.
I agree with you. However, I think most people like myself coming from reddit won’t stay here if there is a lack of content. So there need to be more users for this reason IMO
There’s a ton of people who don’t care. Like Mastodon exists, but Twitter is still chugging. Reddit’s communities are a bit more organized, but time will tell if it translates into transition. Niche subreddits seem to be continuing
This all reminds me of the big Digg migration. Reddit likes to think that people chose it because it was special. For a good majority of us, especially the 10+ year accounts, it was Digg's terrible redesign and very poor product decisions. The nail in the coffin was not understanding its core content producing users willingness to move. History repeats itself.
Yeah there is no name that’s good but there is an entire marketing time behind Reddit… those are one men projects where marketing is def not their strength but it’s ok for now
I already see a post from the dev on their community asking how to rename the app so I guess this feedback is coming from a lot of people. Currently "Voyager" is winning and that would be step in the right direction imo.
Even if that continues the next 5 days in a row. that’s no big deal for reddit. it’s barely a fraction of a percent of reddits userbase. Spez couldn’t care less i thinks. the only thing that would probably hurt reddit is if everybody deletes all their conten and accounts. and it would need to be a much larger scale. nothing will change. never underestimate the lazynes and unwillingness to change of people.
As long as there’s a vibrant community outside of reddit, it totally helps to break that reddit addiction. Ever since I joined Lemmy, I barely even bother with reddit anymore.
As of the last update. It has surpassed Jerboa for me. So my ranking for best app at present is connect, jerboa and liftoff.
Jerboa is butter smooth if you are using an instance that is updated to 18. But unusable if you are in an instance that is still in version 17 (beehaw)
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