Try talking to Halsin again. It still showed the markers for me as well, but talking to him progressed anyway.

It got my OS right, but browser wrong. Tested both Librewolf and Vivaldi, which it sees as Firefox and Chrome.

The world will be fine.

Humanity on the other hand…

No, this is Patrick!

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shrug Part of doing what they want is moderating how they want.

That’s the beauty of federation - if you disagree with an how instance’s admins do things, you can just use a different one and block their communities. Though we’re still missing the option to block an entire instance rather than just specific communities, hoping that feature gets added soon.

Dinosaurs, while neat, do not bring sufficient profits for the offense industry.

Yeah, Vivaldi is the best chromium-based browser. Personally, I use it a secondary for sites that were made to only display right on chromium browsers. Librewolf, a privacy-focused fork of Firefox, is the one I use as a main browser.

You’re using an apple product, you didn’t have any privacy in the first place. Browser choice isn’t going to change that either way.

Wasn’t he going to sue Threads for “stealing their talent” (hiring some of the massive amounts of programmers they got rid of)?

Did he ever go through with that, or did his lawyers manage to talk him out of it?

dealing with ads

Just use an adblocker. It’s basic internet safety at this point. I recommend ublock origin. If you’re on mobile, android’s version of firefox can use it as well.

That #1 is close to my own reason - a few small communities I’m part of, with very little fediverse activity.

Always using an adblocker of course, having one is basic internet safety, and it reducing reddit’s profits is a nice bonus.

I’ve also got 300, no clue what to do with it. Maybe give out 3 random silvers? Not that it does anything.

Problem is, you don’t become a billionaire without massive amounts of exploiting people for profit, and someone like that isn’t going to support Lemmy since there’s no profit to be had. There are no left-leaning billionaires, only neo-liberal billionaires.

Not a fan of that argument. Twitter/Threads/Facebook/Reddit/etc are big enough to be considered a public forum, even if they’re being controlled by a private entity rather than a government.

My screenshot is from firefox viewing lemmy.world. If you’re using an app, can’t help you there. Try seeing what each of those buttons does I guess? Also, out of curiosity, what app is that?

This is the cross-post button:

lemmy.ml doesn’t have easy signups the way lemmy.world does.

Though I do have accounts on a few different instances, just in case. And so I don’t get blinded by light mode when links send me to another instance.

I have a youtube tab open, it’s currently at 498 blocks. After writing that, 503.

My ublock origin icon has been at a steady 0 ads blocked in my entire time browsing Lemmy. It feels weird.