My main thought reading through this whole thing was like, “okay, in a world where the rationalists weren’t closely tied to the neoreactionaries, and the effective altruists weren’t known by the public mostly for whitewashing the image of a guy who stole a bunch of people’s money, and libertarians and right-wingers were supported by the mainstream consensus, I guess David Gerard would be pretty bad for saying those things about them. Buuuut…”

If it’s an improvement over current lemmy UI, I’ll take it lol. It’s not like standard-lemmy-ui is some old-Reddit-interface-style minimalist barebones thing, but the “new-reddit-ness” doesn’t bother me too much personally.

The main reason I can’t stand the actual new.reddit is because it collapses threads after like 2-3 replies, and then when you go back out of a sub-thread it has a tendency to lose your place. I’m assuming it’s some kind of stupid growth hack on Reddit’s part to prevent people from reading comments for too long (not enough ads in the comments section!)

So as long as this one doesn’t have that stupid behavior, I’m fine with it lol

I like how the assumption seems to be that the thing users object to about “websites track your browsing history around the web in order to show you targeted ads” is… the “websites” part