Cethin

Shit, you’re right. Too much EU5 playing as Castile, and then Spain, capturing Portugal.

The US is fucking huge. A lot of our weather up north is closer to yours, but we’ve got deserts, rainforests, Florida is just outside of the tropics, etc. There’s a huge variety of climates here. The US is larger than all of Europe, by quite a margin. East to west it’s wider than Lisbon, Spain to Moscow, Russia. North to South it’s pretty much identical to Europe. (Technically Europe is slightly larger with the Scandinavian countries sticking out pretty far north.)

Unless it’s Mangione, for whatever reason.

They aren’t as bad as .ml or Hexbear, but some of the communities are apparently not great. I haven’t been banned, but I’ve heard from other people who have for pretty minor things. They definitely aren’t the least aggressive. There’s a lot of instances out there.

Regardless, it’s the largest instance. We should I courage people to spread out.

Lol. Reddit hasn’t been leftist in a long time if it ever really was. There were some leftist spaces, and I guess a lot of users were left-of-center, but the platform certainly wasn’t.

I came over here when they blocked third party apps. I didn’t join earlier because I thought it’d be similar to Voat, which was apparently horrible and an alt-right cesspool. I was pleasantly surprised. I like that people can have actual discussions here without things being flooded by thousands of comments.

Also, since you’re new, I’d recommend against Lemmy.world. They’re a little aggressive with moderation. They’re the largest instance, which is another reason to go somewhere else. The fediverse works best when no one instance controls it.

I’m going to be this person I guess, but the defining trait of steampunk isn’t the use of steam alone. It’s that energy is transfered by delivering steam to where it’s used, rather than using it in-place to crested electricity. This means that steampunk machines operate off of some kind of kinetic energy, rather than electrical energy.

Basically, computers (and everything else) are spinning gears, not silicon.