they show ads next to summaries of articles which, hey, blame the people for only reading the summary instead of clicking through to the source

but they do profit and I would like to see journalism Not become yet another Meta™ product

all i said is better spent, not that you’re not allowed to spend money on sync; and you talk about it like you’re forced to pay to browse lemmy without ads when it’s sync that has ads and not lemmy?

Strange comment

Misskey has more features than mastodon, and firefish is a tweaked misskey fork with saner defaults, more tweaks and made by a furry

it’s not a Roman numeral it’s actually called X as in the letter

..or, actually, 𝕏

i read this as "pass stuff around by putting it in my ass" and just didn't question it for a solid 15 seconds

there is bootleg printer ink, and the OEMs hate it so they put chips and sensors to only make printers take “genuine” ink

the clickbait alone is enough to turn me away from Bing and Edge

cool that people don't mind it but it shouldn't be controversial to dislike Bing for bad UX

There is actually! ~~Going to look for the link and edit when I find it but~~ there’s a simple pc tool that lets you download and upload all your subs and blocks in two clicks

There’s also a python script for it

nope, i tried manipulating votes from apollo once and got a warning

Threads is a microblogging platform similar in idea to mastodon, and uses the same activitypub protocol

You can block threads.net (and there's a list on GitHub of every meta domain, if you want to be extreme)

Edit with link to list of all meta domains

you know what though, i actually think lemmy gold would be a really good thing

you get to put your silly sticker on someone elses comment and the server admin gets a few extra dollars to put towards their monthly costs

Part of me thinks the rapid growth is over and that user retention is the new struggle; but part of me holds out hope that the reddit api finally dying will push over yet another wave of users