I’m really enjoying it. I feel way more inclined to post here, I very rarely did over at Reddit. People seem a lot more receptive and willing to participate.

Only downside is that it doesn’t have the history Reddit has, so I still find myself using Reddit’s history for research. I haven’t installed the new app though, and I haven’t looked at /r/all since the API changes went into affect.

Actively making the world worse

I’m no expert but I believe comments are pulled down by an instance when a user requests the information and is then cached in the DB. So not everything is, but content that’s viewed by a user on the instance will be.

I don’t think it really matters, but I picked vlemmy.net because it wasn’t too big. I figured that the bigger ones were staring down the barrel of a huge influx in traffic, so I wanted to avoid them.

I didn’t see any evidence of the admin being shady, but also wasn’t too hasty with the defederate button.

I don’t listen to too much of the more classic prog stuff, but here are some more modern ones that you might be into:

• Porcupine Tree (Gavin Harrison was the drummer in King Crimson)
• The Pineapple Thief (Another Gavin Harrison band)
• Haken (Recommend starting with The Mountain - my favourite)
• Leprous (Older stuff has more distorted/screamed vocals, newer stuff is a lot cleaner)
• Thank You Scientist

Four Tet’s unpronounceable side-project is great too. Search for: ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ

This EP is a great place to start: ooo ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡( ؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0 ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮

It’s a bit more analogue than his normal stuff? But definitely hits the “intricately crafted” mark!