$0.99 per month to read all the comments on a thread, slowly increase the cost year-over-year and eventually add a second (initially) $0.99 per month to read any comments at all (because you should only read posts and only the ones we want you to see).

Try using the Progressive Web App (PWA) instead. I’m on iOS and haven’t found a good app for Lemmy yet but the PWA has helped me get used to Lemmy on my phone in place of Reddit. You just open the site in your phone’s native browser (Safari on iOS, probably Chrome on Android?) and choose “Save to Home Screen”. Now it looks like any other app and behaves like it too, even though it’s secretly just the web page.

I got to the youtube video and decided to kill Paul instead because otherwise I’d be at this all day. It was fun until it wasn’t anymore.

I “hacked” the game (if you know how to get into the scripts, just look for the one that has the unmangled text “wordle” in it) to find out how long it is and the later tasks are simply ridiculous. If anyone’s thinking of actually trying to get to the end, I wouldn’t recommend it.

This spoiler contains all the tasks after the Youtube video task (and keep in mind, you still need to upkeep ALL the previous tasks too, such as the chess notation or that digits add up to 25):

Done. As a side thought, I wonder if it would have been interesting to include both a “would contribute to” and a “would be interested in reading” (or similar concept). Undoubtedly there are countless lurkers here as there are on any social media site. It could be interesting to see what people are interested in lurking vs contributing to.

As a personal example, I don’t think I could contribute well to worldwide news, but I think it’s important to consume it to keep up to date (and I assume Beehaw would have more interesting stories than traditional news media’s “front page”).

Although, as a counter to my own suggestion, I suppose there’s no point in having a community that people are interested in reading but no one is interested in contributing to.

TIL. I guess they must have improved it recently. That’s one of the worst parts about starting on a smaller instance for sure. Being able to copy+paste the URL from its source is really helpful.

You can subscribe to any content anywhere as long as neither instance is on the other’s block list. If your instance hasn’t federated with the other instance yet, then you need to do that thing where you search for “!community@instance” and wait a few minutes. Otherwise, you just go to that community while on your home instance (e.g. for you, “mander.xyz/c/community@instance”) and click subscribe.

Back in the day (pre-2015 or so) Reddit used to feel a lot different. Odds are, a lot of the big-name mods came into power back then. It’s been a real slow “boil the frog” type approach for many years as they slowly made the logged out user experience worse, then the “new reddit” experience worse… and now the mobile apps.

If you weren’t paying attention, it was really easy to fall into a routine where you believed the site’s operators still had the users’ best interests at heart. Especially if your subscriptions only brought you posts from older subreddits that managed to retain that old feeling. I could see someone wanting to moderate that for free, even if it was out of a naïve belief that it was possible to return to the old days of Reddit.

That being said, they’ve really gone full mask off as of late. Hard to imagine anyone could return to moderating that for free. The glory days of Reddit are definitely behind us. Here’s hoping Lemmy manages to keep the momentum going. So far, it really does feel like the old days on Reddit.

At least let me get some cybernetic enhancements off the street or something…