Yep

There simply isn’t anywhere here for me to post the content that I create

Unfortunately or fortunately perhaps, I am banned from reddit. The reason was for reporting too many posts. Mods never cared about any of the rule breakers. They claimed I was trying to break the site by reporting posts too much. So I got banned without warning. Oh well.

We can yell into the abyss all we want, but the abyss isn’t yelling back.

i lurk on youtubers fan subs, the ones that arnt controlled by youtubers themselves(to deflect criticism)

Are the extended warranties offered by the dealership worth it?

Not in my opinion but it depends how you’ll be using the trailer. The thing people don’t expect is that warranty work gets last priority. When you bring in the trailer for warranty work, there is no new revenue for the dealership. So the trailer will just sit there on the lot, possibly for months, waiting until the repair guys have literally nothing else to do, before they will actually start work on it.

This is super unprofessional but seems to be the industry norm.

If you’re only going to use the trailer a couple times a year maybe this is fine, but if you use it a lot and you need to be back on the road fast then it makes the warranty basically unusable.

Plus also what you said, unless you bought from a national dealer the warranty will not help you with emergency roadside stuff. But mostly when things break it won’t stop you from towing the trailer — you would just finish your vacation with no refrigerator or whatever which is annoying but not fatal.

I live in mine full-time. When things break that I can’t fix myself my first choice is a mobile tech so I don’t have to get a hotel while they fix it.

Do you have any experience with harvest hosts?

No, I haven’t tried it. Some people seem to like it a lot, other people complain. 🤷

I got a 21ft geo pro. Probably too big for a lot of boondocking, but i still plan to boondock it as much as possible. I dont love the idea of always being at KOAs and such.

21’ is not too big for boondocking. The thing about boondocking is you have to somehow know where to find a good spot. iOverlander website is good for that. Out west, especially in the desert, there are lots of places on public land where there is a usable gravel road with big cleared sites that anyone can get to in any size RV. Other places where it rains more, not so much — tight twisty potholed dirt roads through the forest with little carve-out spots between trees are not good for big setups. Regional parks, state parks, natural forest parks, and national parks are often pretty awesome. There’s also a lot of RV parks out in the middle of nowhere that can be super nice and park-y — shout out to La Conner thousand trails in WA, Pacific City thousand trails in OR, “The Narrows” in Maine — but very hit or miss; some are just a parking lot, too. KOA is convenient and consistent but expensive. We use them when they’re the closest campground to someplace we want to be visiting (just got out of three days at KOA near my sister in law) but yeah if you like boondocking then KOA will not be a fun destination for you.

Good luck, have fun, don’t cheap out on the hose you use for dumping your black tank.

How is the moderation landscape any different on Lemmy vs Reddit? Aren’t Reddit moderators all unpaid too?

I haven’t encountered this. Which topics?

I’ve seen this popup on the mobile website with Firefox a few times, enabling a user agent switcher extention and setting my user agent to be that of a desktop operating system makes the popup go away.

Yeah, there is one for my town and what I miss is that there were some really good local meteorologists in there. They’d call out storms or bad weather days before it came up on any weather feed and most of the time they were super accurate.

I kind of miss it, but after being banned for nonsense, I don’t think I can go back. It was fun while it lasted but everyone knew once they went public, it was going to change and it did.

Something else will replace it. Might be Lemmy, might be something else. I don’t really care of it’s a for-profit model, just don’t run it like assholes. There’s no reason it has to be so binary.

The only online local communities I am aware of for where I live are on facebook, so I just don’t get involved. Reddit does have a county wide one but that is pretty quiet. Oddly the city subs are more popular than the county one but I don’t live in either city. Might be because both have a fairly big uni.

Then there’s some of us who simply got kicked out of the Reddit realm altogether

I would have switched sooner if I had known about lemmy, but been here over a year now.

That’s my situation. I nuked my comment history with a script when it was obvious they wanted to profit off of ai scraping. I still look at old reddit.com in my desktop, but I don’t touch it on mobile.

The API thing was the final straw for me as well.

I used reddit for years. Made lots of comments, had original posts hit #1 many times. I was contributing to their site.

Then I said something bad about Musk and got banned. I think it was about Musk, they deleted a bunch of what I posted so I’m not entirely sure.

I still browse reddit from time to time. I use the old reddit site with adblock. Now I’m just a leech to them. I take but don’t contribute back.

I’m fine with that relationship.

I stayed with them and bitched about them for quite some time. About the time they started cracking down on the API i went ahead and left because whatever inconvenience I was weathering would be 10x worse if I waited till the last minute to start over somewhere else.

same here, but there is a way to login, you just cant use the same IP/device, or browsers. more sophisticated ones you can run dozens of accounts on the same device(but this is more complicated. reddit is so oppressive it sniffs out alternatives ways to evade its filters.(this more for the spammers who drop thier OF ads/or driving people to thier own sites)

I’m in the same boat. I’ve had more productive conversations/debates with people on here in 6 months than 12 years on reddit.

One thing I like about Lemmy is I’m less prone to doom scrolling. I just make a few comments a day and monitor the results. Their server limitations serve as an incentive to make a less addictive product.