Even alibaba is mostly shit. I’ve only heard terrible things about temu, like that its where the alibaba rejects are sold.

India too.

I went into learning about India’s history looking for positive things about it and came out of the experience sickened. India’s culture is corrupt and evil, in many ways much like China. I suspect it has something to do with a massive population being inherently hyper-competitive and nepotistic. These qualities aren’t absent from the Western Worlds ideologies, governments or economic systems but they aren’t as rampant as in the Eastern Worlds cultures.

I’m all for accepting people of other cultures on a case-by-case basis (so I admit there are good people from India and China that I’d welcome) but as a whole these cultures and governments are bad news and should be treated as hostile belligerents.

Sample size and demographic makeup could skew things like that.

Still insignificant. Solar storms and fluctuating magnetic fields have been happening for longer than humans have been here and have been happening while humans were here. Theres tons of pseudo-science gaining popularity online, can’t believe astrology is still so popular with people, and this sounds like one of them to be honest.

Earths magnetic field isn’t even powerful enough to make naturally occurring magnets (lodestones) with. So no, it’s not anywhere near powerful enough to mess with your cells. There maybe some biological functions are an influenced or can sense the magnetic field (one theory why birds seemingly know which direction north is) but as far as I know these are all theories or myth (men have metal in their nose which they use to sense north which is why they never get lost.)

Naturally occurring magnetic rocks, for anyone who is curious, are created by lightning striking iron-rich deposits in the ground. You can make a ferrous metal magnetic in a similar way (quick bursts of electricity.)

And Reddit was small for years and years when it started. I don’t even think I really started using it till around 2013-2014. Didn’t have a username or anything just came across it through Google searches. All websites take a while to build a userbase.

I’ll be honest I miss old Reddit

Everyone does. Just like we all miss og Myspace or geocities sites. Old Reddit at its prime was a different time period. Can’t recapture that just like you can’t recapture the geocities era of the internet.

We’re being enshittified. Lemmy is the least enshittified (thus far.)

Yeah but thats better than most niche message boards back in their heyday. Probably better than y incubators message board to.

A big chunk of reddit traffic and users are bots. Another large segment are more recent arrivals from India (check out how many Indian topics make the front pages on the weekends when USA/UK traffic is low.) While I can’t prove it I have a hunch that Spez hired a bunch of Indian clickfarms to pump the numbers before the IPO. Maybe he just promoted in India more to get an influx of users for the IPO or maybe they are mostly “social media marketers” hired to sell health/peptide supplements (seriously there are services that do that on Reddit so be careful ever taking any such advice from them.)

But my point is that the quality of users is pretty weak and I’m certain American advertisers have noticed by now. 300ish real, quality users is a better engagement metric than 6000 bots.

Heres hoping the federal government goes down with it so we can forget about all those pesky student loans.

Egg drop is the best I’ve found, at least for the classic chicken flavored ramen packs.

Reddit is 80%+ bots so I don’t expect those accounts to shift platforms. But I do imagine some former reddit users will trickle over as it continues to alienate its fanbase with stupid choices like getting rid of old reddit.