It’s because a lot of people migrating from Reddit landed on .world and created or found their familiar named communities and that’s how it was on Reddit - US centric top level type communities.

Is .world the best place for US centric communities? Maybe not just based on nomenclature but since you asked why, that’s the reasoning. It’s in the description of Politics specifically (it even calls out migrating Redditors).

Memmy’s on the App Store now. It does still have a TestFlight if there are any spots available but the app store’s version is currently up to date.

How do you think Meta and other similar companies attract advertisers? They sell ad space to them with the ability to highly target ads to their users.

That’s what I mean by sell - they are literally letting advertisers buy ads to target to all of the people who they’ve gotten information about that would most likely click on and convert to buyers. Non-targeted ads are significantly less valuable from an advertising standpoint because if they don’t apply to you, you’re more likely to ignore it and the advertiser is getting less money back on their ad purchase investment.

I love how you say ‘almost every app’ and then your three examples include two Meta apps and also Twitter. Their whole business models are to gather as much as possible to sell.

Not every app needs your health data, financial information, and usage data to send short messages to their friends. I get wanting a certain amount of data in order to do certain things but needing basically everything possible frankly SHOULD BE eye opening to people if they didn’t already know.

I mean, did anyone think it wasn’t basically spyware?

I have a lemm.ee account and a lemmy.world account. They are exactly the same as far as subscriptions go, my feed remains essentially the same, they’re just for when one has server issues, goes down for maintenance, or is laggy I have another with the same feed to keep my experience pretty much the same.

Swipe commands. Right to left short swipe is comment.

Left to right short swipe is upvote, long swipe is downvote.

On the feed screen, top right can change your feed - all, local and subscribed are the options.

Go to profile - accounts - change account settings and there should be a delete account button there.

If you have the TestFlight version, Gavin will still be pushing updates there first, but if you want the stable releases only, feel free to go to the App Store.

If you want to rate the app, you can’t do it with a TestFlight version so you have to go to the App Store version to rate it, but you can switch back after.

Hey cod, yeah we’ve been pestering poor Gavin and Sean and Teflo and everyone else for weeks, but this is a huge milestone day!

Really? That’s too bad, I recommend sending a bug report via GitHub so the dev team can fix that.

I recommend putting in the bug request and feedback in GitHub so the devs will see it and fix bugs like that. The beauty of open source :)

https://github.com/gkasdorf/memmy

When you’re in your feed, top center should say your username and instance. If you tap that, it’ll pull up a dropdown with all of your added accounts.

I’m not a dev but there is a quick account switcher, just add in your accounts through settings and top center can switch accounts on the fly. I have 2 accounts and switch between the two when one instance is hiccuping. I know some others have a SFW and NSFW profile, haha.

Slide controls. Left to right short slide is upvote, long is downvote, and right to left short slide is comment.

All credit to Gavin and the dev team, I’ve just been beta testing since early. It is an amazing app for sure!

Wefwef is a PWA - a web app running from a browser rather than a native app.

The official App Store version is slightly out of date - here’s a note from the dev - https://lemmy.world/comment/871711

But it’ll be updated with the most recent fixes soon :)

You’re awesome, and I hope you sleep at some point, haha.