That's the realist view, agree. It is hitting to suck for many, many people but they made their own bed.

Agree, there's a lot going on. How I see it:

• @xxx are snaps, limiting result to any resource from a website e.g. Wikipedia.com

• !xxx are bangs, using the sites own search engine to return results. They are external searches, and might provide more (if the site does not expose certain parts to search engine) or less (if the site didn't build search capabilities for some parts but they are indexable) than snaps.

• Lenses return search results based on certain criteria. Those could be a list of snaps (so domains), but also geography, keywords, file types, or they could exclude the same.

I've recently been looking for a new phone, this is the first one that seems to strike a reasonable balance between features and (assumed) price. On a OP 6t right now, and the ones that came after didn't seem very good. OTOH, my 6t with LineageOS runs perfectly (except for the camera from time to time).

You need to pay. It is a bidding, as mentioned in the first paragraph.

I always loved the intro music, and never knew who it was from or how it was selected. It is a very optimistic song, and I think that's what Star Trek is about as well.

Basically, whenever you make a request to access something from the internet (say, an ad image), it goes to a dedicated server that tells you "Where actually do I find www.website.com" (the answer is, you find it at address 128.129.130.1, this is the IP address). This is the DNS server.

If you tell your phone to use an ad-blocking DNS server - Instead of "normal" ones like e.g. those provided by Google - , whenever it receives such a request to find the address for you, and the address leads to a server that serves ads, it tells you, "Sorry, nothing found here" and the add is not displayed.

Phones, at least Android, have a setting where you can change the DNA server to an ad-blocking one (a different IP of that server).

I agree. While $20 could still be seen as reasonable - even though making it one of the more expensive apps, thigh I'm willing to go for it if Sync continues development -, the asking price of $100 for the lifetime ultra is insane. I'm not aware of any other app that is this expensive. Of course, you could argue there's subscription apps out there that don't even have a lifetime model - e.g. Adobe, Microsoft Office -, But these provide considerably more value as well and are huge corporations.

My feeling is - and I don't have facts to prove it - that the developers of the large reddit apps (esp. Apollo) simply became used to the money making machine and want to squeeze as much as possible out of it.

While in the end it is entirely up to them, as there's open source and free alternatives out there, I'm not too fond of this behavior.

That's pretty horrifying. You have all the evidence you need but can't do anything. Being police always puts you in a position of power, which makes it so much more likely for people to not resist for the fear of consequences.

I would assume so. But I see quite some organic content as well, with good interactions in the comment sections. I'm pretty happy. 90% of what was on reddit was of no interest to me as tends to be the case with any large content aggregator.

Sometimes when I can't use both hands. Otherwise, I prefer typing.

Definitely more active than before. But still unlikely to create many posts.

Agree. Even if you post a top level comment you are likely to get a response and start a conversation.