This link is from a reddit thread

Care to explain more?

That seems really low. Probably not many people have picked it up

What are the API costs so far based on Lemmy usage? @rikudou@lemmings.world

Firefox with Bypass Paywall Clean D extension

Bypass Paywalls Clean (D) on Firefox works

Which distro did you use? I have a win 10 laptop and I might switch over to a Linux distro

I’d recommend you create your instance and defederate from the 58.99%. Wouldn’t miss you the slightest!

This is the GitHub page of the extension. It details supported websites and other things

Sure they are unethical. But the millions of users who have joined them are not and they are not that tech savvy to have even heard of Fediverse. Federating with them opens 2 avenues: Possibly decrease the influence of X/Twitter as it gets more toxic and introduce general people to the concept of Fediverse and give them an option to easily migrate to one of the better Mastodon instances in future from Threads.

I believe defederating should be a user choice rather than an instance unless done for spammy/toxic instances. If instances starts to be too liberal with defederation, you create silos and introduce more hurdles for the growth of fediverse. This creates a broken up network that may not be social for everyone.

Obviously, you can be on an instance that defederates Threads.net if that’s your preference.

Is there a custom filter for removing paywalls? I use it and it doesn’t do that for me

Why have a social network if an instance is not social and not a network? He makes pretty good points on why he wants to federate with Threads. I’d personally also like to follow people who are on Threads but not on Mastodon (without joining Threads)

Why choose this over DuckDuckGo? Genuine question as it has minimal tracking and is free.

Umm, I’m not sure as I didn’t use Sync for Reddit, if it was an app specific feature.

In the current Lemmy app if we hide read posts, they are kinda lost. I’d like to visit a community and even see the read posts that were hidden from the frontpage. It could be an option for the user to decide if they want the current method or let the hidden “read” posts be hidden only from the All/Subscribed/Local frontpage (and not from the community page itself)

@ljdawson@lemmy.world my request is a bit different. I actually use Sync. When we hide posts from the frontpage using “Hide Read Posts” toggle, it hides the post from both the frontpage and the community where the post was posted. I’d like to have a setting where it only hides read posts from the frontpage.

Sometimes I like to go back to a community (like Starfield for e.g.) to read posts that I hid previously from frontpage to see newer discussions or just look back at things after a couple of days.

Hide read posts only from the frontage. There should be an option to have them visible in their community itself to refer back later.

You can move around in them. Atleast on Android, there is a hidden red bar at the bottom which becomes visible if you pause the video.

Everyone says subscribe to hashtags to get content. I have no idea how to do that on the official Mastodon Android app. If it’s that obtuse, it’s not going to catch on easily.

Microblogging was never my preference and as it wasn’t easy enough to figure out in the app itself, being a casual user, I never looked it up in a guide/video.

They are still getting the data even if we defederate them, right? It’s only us who don’t get their data. This was my understanding on how federation works