yeah with what other people have said it's most likely bad or unseated RAM

definitely. usually algorithms are used to calculate the difficulty of a game (eg. in osu!, a rhythm game) so there's definitely a practical application there

lol I understand the feeling

oh, I forgot about the API not being freely available; so an alternate frontend wouldn't be a proper solution?

going by the other comments, though, there are client-side options that can avoid API issues entirely by just re-styling the webpage. thanks for the info, though!

yeah, that was the main reason I wanted to apply it to old Reddit specifically, because it would have been easier with simpler theming and old Reddit is close to Lemmy's style too

I installed RES beforehand, but haven't used any of its features. I'll try this out first and maybe Stylish if that doesn't work. thanks!

okay thanks for the tip! I'm already using Stylish but I couldn't find a pre-made style for Lemmy.

I figured I could make my own but I didn't want to waste time doing something that could have been done already or could be done faster. at least I know I'm on the right track!

yeah, my bad. edited the comment with more accurate info

and this does apply to creative writing, not knowledgeable stuff like coding

ah, I see. thanks

ah I see. thanks

yeah, that sounds like a similar idea.

has anyone implemented this in a decentralised manner?

the ads would ideally be limited to banners and gifs in the same style as these, with each user choosing whose ads they wish to host

no revenue or popularity (these are only for personal websites) would (hopefully) prevent users from hosting invasive ads. quite a few personal websites have banners linking to others, so this would be a more simpler approach

(although in principle, a whole project dedicated to automate this doesn't sound good)

1. people would choose individual websites (likely their friends) to host ads of, although list making would be problematic
2. ideally would just serve images or gifs with as simple an API as possible
3. similar idea to point 1 but abuse of such a system would be an issue (eg. a website is hacked and changed to inappropriate ads). one of the concept's main implications
4. similar idea to point 2: videos could also be problematic though
5. potentially some form of client-side (website) caching? this whole thing is just an idea, so I really don't know how it work
6. no revenue - and therefore breaches of privacy and tracking would be unlikely - as the servers would be individually hosted, and therefore decentralised. however, this approach would make it significantly easier for malicious parties to pay users for ads.

• as to whether or not that happens would be the user's decision, although (at least right now) such advertising sounds more costly and hard to enforce.

7. you're right that ad-blockers could (although probably not at first) be used to block ads, as the ads would be for other personal websites (no real ad protection needed as per point 6), some could unblock them knowing that they would be more ethical (again, just a concept). this would be a problem though as most visitors would have an ad-blocker regardless.

thanks for the points