I think that’s the overall goal. Much harder to block ads and they can collect a ton more data.

It’s what made me finally check out lemmy.

I think like a lot of things in life there are good troops and bad troops. I was lucky enough to be in two really great troops and are still friends with most of them even today almost 15 years later.

Outrage sells better than sex does.

I second XMPP. Conversations is great and its really easy to host your own prosody server.