Schwim Dandy

I think it will be very easy to find a host that federated from them, making it easy to mitigate the damage.

Never trust a rant from a person that can’t install Windows.

People who craft intentionally misleading titles with a qualifier at the end that diffuses the statement have been proven to be pedophiles, schwim says.

I disabled it on my phones. I’ve found it to be completely without value.

Out of curiosity, how many years back are you remembering? I can imagine it happened to me when I was 20 but its not really a thing for me at 50.

I ran a niche VW community and for a quarter of a year, I singlehandedly posted multiple posts daily. No downvotes, subscribers gained, 50+ up votes on some but practically 0 community engagement or content. Lemmy is too small still to support anything but politics or tech of a certain slant.

“It happens all the time” and “they always do *” is also comically unhelpful and useless. I’m getting a pot/kettle vibe from those that seem to take offense at my comment.

I also use FF solely and have no slowdowns on YT. I guess they like my copy of the browser.

I’m sorry but I don’t see how that check is browser-specific. Is that part happening on the browser side?

Nobody can even state that it’s actually happening “for competitive browsers” as even Chrome users are reporting an unexplained lag/slowdown. At this point, it’s just wild speculation and bandwagoning.

I chose not to wait. Greasemonkey script for blocking on desktop, Connect app for blocking on phone.

I don’t think the issue is performance though. The unspoken part of this comparison is in bold:

“Linux vs Windows tested in 10 games. In the games we could find that work on linux, the performance was 17% faster on average. In all the rest of the games, Windows worked 100% better.”

Any politics and porn servers or communities get blocked.

I can’t say I don’t use Google as I own an unrooted pixel on the Fi network but I’ve done what I’m able to lessen the information given to them by stopping the use of the search engine, browser and sandboxing any Google pages in my FF browser. It started bothering me how much I was relying on one company for nearly everything online.

My next phone will likely be rooted and running a different OS.

It’s no longer a reliable solution. Most paywalls now just throw a javascript confirmation at it’s IP that breaks the ability to display the article.

Echo chambers are echo chambers, no matter the platform. As the voices grow, it gets louder. Just because it’s an alternative to the mainstream, I wouldn’t consider the members here smarter, more enlightened or savvier as a whole. Lemmy just got louder, that’s all.

I’m enraged.