This right here. If you block ads you’re literally worth less than nothing to them and they couldn’t care less where you go. You’re just a bandwidth leech. I use uBlock, but have some self awareness.

Pixel 7, Firefox. 🔥🦊

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about YouTube.

The many instances and multiples of the same communities across all instances would absolutely be confusing to your average joe. But, once you start using Lemmy you realize understanding all that doesn’t matter and it just works. As for the stability thing… A fediverse of new communities based on open source software has growing pains? Gasp… The article reads like that person is truly unaware of how software works in the beginning.

Fuck it, imma just drink molten rock.

It is and it isn’t. I find the decline of malls and their abandonment absolutely fascinating. Relics of their time before online shopping. From behemoths of capitalism to shells of their former selves. Hell anything abandoned is kind of cool. But malls kinda hit different.

Only when I’m googling something that points to reddit. But even then not really as I’m using an extension that redirects all reddit links to their webarchive version.

Not to mention that we’d need data on how many bots makeup reddit interactions/engagement to compare against the traffic data. My guess, bots likely increased.

Windows 11 for my gaming PC and laptop. Windows 10 for my work machine. Ubuntu server for my servers.

Exactly. And when you’re not expected required to answer, it should be turned off and out of sight.

I agree, I think following this initial burst of users and our feedback we’ll get there with time.

Up until 3rd party app devs announced they’re converting their apps to Lemmy? Yes.

Now, absolutely the fuck not. Reddit is a cesspool compared to when I first joined in 2013. Lemmy feels a lot more like reddit did then. It’s quaint and cozy here. Yes I’d like to see this place grow some more. But 1/10th the size of reddit would be plenty. Most reddit users don’t contribute anything useful anyways so no loss there.