I used sync before I ever had a Reddit account, I was a digg person and after the mass migration I just kind of ‘meh’ and didn’t have a doom scroller
But then, magic, more and more friends discussed Reddit (never giving away their usernames of course) and I asked and someone just said “oh don’t bother with the web, just download sync” and I fell in love, the UI just… It is the definition of a good UI, I just “knew” how to use it
Then when I found out if I made a Reddit account I could sub and find more content I liked, was the first time I ever loaded the Reddit page, only yo make an account and then login to sync.
When the most recent bad Reddit occurred and our dear dev was pondering moving I just waited and now, I have a lemmy account
Might not be for everyone, but it’s the only app for Reddit (I did actually try others during a brief time when I didn’t have the ability to filter videos out) but nothing ever clicked
Side notes, I am more of a lurker which may or may not be relevant
I’m unsure where everyone is from, but as a Canadian from a semi small town… there’s laws about radio, 1/3 of all music must be Canadian.
Smaller towns have about 5 stations, rock, pop, country, CBC and Jesus…
It has happened with every single band / artist in my lifetime, Celine, Rush, Shania, the Hip, Avril and Nickelback… Those 3 stations find a reason any of those artists fit into their category and then all you hear for months, every third song is Nickelback and it drives you full mad.
Sometimes I worry that our annoyance spread with their popularity outside of Canada, and Michigan did steal our accent, so they might have borrowed some of the Nickelback hate too.
On a brighter note, I don’t instantly change stations when they come on the classic rock station anymore, so maybe the world will forgive them in time :)
TLDR - Canadian radio is like BBC1, same 5 songs on repeat