OP is asking about where to find cute, locally owned retailers & you are telling them they can find the same shit at the mall.

Red Reader is an open source, ad free, third party Reddit app that has been allowed to continue free use of the API due to its usage amongst the disabled community.

I’ve been using it for nearly a decade & continues to get ignored by folks for some reason.

It’s also in the official Play Store, I believe.

Yes, it still works in browsers.

This might be the least self aware post on the Internet.

Omg it’s like watching someone trying to reason with an arrogant brick wall that craps its own pants.

Go to bed, bro.

Red Reader is adless & open source.

Also no account needed (for read only, obvs).

You weren’t mean at all. I’m a snarky, cranky fuck sometimes, it’s not on you lol.

I don’t know why you’re getting boo’d, you’re right!

It has to do with the “flatness” of the general composition. It reeks of AI. A human usually needs to intervene to prevent that.

Are you happy now?

This is absolutely AI generated, friend.

I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.

Well, ‘.ml’ doesn’t exactly stand for “Mildly Liberal.”

But unlike Reddit, you can block the entire .ml instance if you’d like.

In fact, if you don’t get along with .ml, do yourself a favor & block the Hexbear instance if your home instance hasn’t already.

I received one of these fucking warnings!

Been on reddit for fourteen goddamned years, but this is the thing that has finally gotten me off board for good.

Reddit is dead.

I got an Orwellian warning from those motherfuckers at Reddit that said I upvote too many posts that “glorify violence”(!?!?). I guess because I believe all Nazis can die?

I’m finally out for good. If they want a safe space for the loser racists at /r/conservative they can have it!

I usually just… go to the store.

I started using Reddit in 2008 (kill me). One of the of the defining traits of the site at the time was the fact everything was anonymous. It was considered taboo to expose your Reddit persona to your irl circles. Hell, I still don’t have an email associated with my Reddit account.

It’s been interesting, and a little tragic, to watch that attitude erode over the years and then see Reddit itself encourage the idea of creating a unique identity to cash in.

Lemmy is way more like the original Reddit & I’ll actually admit to using Lemmy, even though no one knows wtf I’m on about.

Hexbear is way worse, imo. Those folks will straight up harass dissenters. Stay away or maybe just stick to your gaming sub if you’re happy there.

When you enter “how to join Lemmy” in search engines one of the first results is this Reddit thread, which explicitly suggests people join Lemmyworld.

In fact, when I point people to Lemmy via Reddit, I use that post also because that suggestion actually makes it way more approachable. I think most people, myself included, are intimidated by multiple servers and feel like they’re “intruding” into private spaces. The size of Lemmyworld might help people feel like it’s more anonymous and a little easier to join as a result, especially since they are being asked to wait for “approval”, which is pretty unusual on the modern Net, let’s be honest.

No kidding, next time try Truth Social, bro. They’ll be rolling in the aisles over there.

Good try but the answer is, “don’t worry they’ll tell you!” as this hilarious meme so perfectly illustrates.

It’s a classic!