At least you are going to the dentist. My uncle was not brushing his teeth. And never to the dentist. Eventually they had to remove all of his teeth because it was all infected and it was too unbearable for him.

I had a depression period of my life where I was doing the worst possible treatment to my teeth - was eating a lot of sugar and would skip brushing here and there; also I was not brushing effectively. My teeth are not in very good condition right now. I wish I had kept a good mouth hygiene even when I was depressed.

Negativity. It’s ok to criticize, but there was something about Reddit that encouraged people to bash each others until one side wins instead of agreeing to disagree and move on.

I don’t want them making money out of the content I voluntarily and freely created. I was contributing in subs like C_programming to help newcomers. I have been thinking that all these posts I made will help the next AI - and Reddit (not me) will get paid for it.

So I mass edited each post and comment I made. They won’t get away with my data. My data belongs to me, not them.

Larger instances will either have more donators or close their subscriptions if it really is unsustainable.

The more Lemmy grows, the more instances will show up, which will help spread the load.

You speak of sustainability but Lemmy survived the wave of incoming Redditors without much downtime. It’s really impressive that this growth could happen. That’s the power of decentralized systems: they scale!

I think having no reputation point is a good thing, it gives no incentive to post low-effort content just to get reputation points.

One key difference I found is the lack of user karma. You have no incentive to post something “just to get karma” because there is no global karma on your profile.

This encourages to post what you want to post instead of posting something that someone posted years ago because it’s easy free karma