This could easily be done with AI. For a week or so, that is.

Not at all, Pixelfed is very polished and gets regular updates.

I found a Vivaldi blog post on this topic from 2022: https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/

Will the Vivaldi Ad Blocker be affected by the Manifest V3 changes?

I made some architectural choices early on that I believe should keep it functional, regardless of the Manifest V3 changes. Of course, there is always a possibility that the underlying Chromium architecture will change now or in the future, forcing us to do some extra work to keep this working. ​> Hopefully, a more in-depth description of the architecture and some of the facts surrounding the Manifest V3 changes should help to show why I believe that our implementation is safe for the time being.

Yeah, chromium based means adblockers cannot work as effectively.

A “reply guy” (wikipedia) is someone who responds to posts/comments in an annoying (usually smug/condescending) way, like what you think of when you think of a “redditor”. Big platforms like Reddit like reply-guys because they generate engagement (often someone telling the reply-guy to f-off) it’s also not a behavior that an algorithm can recognize, so human mods/admins are needed to curb it.

Over time, if Reply-guys are not banned they tend to make the overall ecosystem too exhausting to participate in, and (authentic, desireable) engagement declines.

I think it has potential to be better in a way Reddit can never be, but the two biggest instances do so little moderation their userbase might as well be “people banned from too many subredits”.

I assumed the killer feature of Lemmy would be “zero reply guys” but instance owners seem willing to tolerate them in the interests of faux-engagement. But the irony is this sort of “engagement” actually scares new users away.

This is a really interesting chart. A lot of N64 games were $70 and even $80 at launch which is upwards of $150 today. Just crazy.

Post scheduling is huge! Lots of good stuff in here.

This is one of those features that might not seem very huge but is a core thing that Reddit can’t have. Very cool.

It’s called “Mlmym” and a lot of instances have added it. old.startrek.website works too!

Dude SAME. I find it extremely hard to believe that Google would astroturf Lemmy but it really does feel like all of a sudden in the past ~month a bunch of vague or minor complaints being repeated over and over in every thread.

Those are great drives but I would not want one of those in the room where I sleep haha

This sucks (Was it really costing much money to run?) but as long as Firefox continues to work with full-flavor ublock I’m happy.

Why are they angry? Are you providing evidence in your comments or just ranting?

It’s centralized and for-profit. They will have to do ads eventually or shut down.

Is there crypto stuff in Firefox? Also I like the Pocket integration…

💯It’s the classic alt-right playbook of prioritizing civility over the actual message.

It’s not a single person instance either, it’s just using your own domain in your handle.

It’s a for profit company founded by jack dorsey and currently led by a cryptocurrency fanatic