Here’s a few more data points. Canada is smaller but some targeted parts of the USA economy will feel the pain:

25% tariff on USA carpet imports is to target purple state Georgia. It was imposed initially between 2025-03-04 through to 2025-08-31 at 25%, then removed, now added back effective 2026-09-08. (1)

Appliances are to target red states Tennessee, Ohio, North Carolina and purple state Pennsylvania. 25% rate since 2025-03-13 and ongoing. (2)

(1) Stats Can carpet imports by State

(2) Stats Can appliance imports by State

Hey, there’s at least two of us that use lemmy formatting for

emphasis

without relying on a LLM. Sometimes I even resort to emojis❗

The lemmit.online instance already exists that hosts a single user, bot@lemmit.online, that mirrors reddit posts for a subset of sub-reddits.

I was looking into why this instance was blocked on some lemmy instances and was trying to get a discussion going about unblocking it for lemmy.ca. It turns out of the top 10 lemmy instances only 4 did not block either the instance or the bot@lemmit.online user:

https://lemmy.ca/post/69414850/24851333

It’s moot now since reddit locked down their old.reddit.com access which lemmit.online relied on:

https://lemmit.online/post/8716662

Before this blockage I did create a new user on lemmy.dbzer0.com and subscribed to some bot communities mirrored from reddit via lemmit.online. It turned out to not be a great user experience but did lessen my need to use the reddit app for discovery as I would just visit reddit for posts of interest.

Thanks for your detailed post.

I’ve bookmarked many of the links to various tools you mentioned and will put them on my todo list to look into.

upvoted for referencing Cory Doctorow’s enshittification.