L3ft_F13ld!

That would almost make me believe that they caused violence. Can’t imagine playing on a phone would be anything but frustrating.

I always thought it was a small team, not millions. But yeah, one monkey with infinite time makes sense.

“We’ve investigated ourselves and found no evidence of wrongdoing.”

They’d be better off without the guys that fall for this shit. This would be a positive for them.

They aren’t officially available in China anyway. Need a VPN for them.

For people complaining about ads and popups, try LibreWolf/Mull with uBlock Origin in medium mode.

This setup can sometimes break sites, needing some slight intervention (once per site), but I never get these popups people complain about.

Sites that absolutely refuse to work are rare, but it does happen. In that case, just have a backup Firefox or Chromium browser.

I’ve heard of people having similar experiences on Mastodon as well. Seems like these smaller communities of early adopters tend to simply be more active and pleasant to interact with.

Consider Endeavour.

It’s the app the comment above me was recommending. I just wanted to make that clear and show that it was available outside the app stores as well.

Drip is also available on F-droid.

Not sure if you’re on desktop or mobile. On mobile I’m using Mull with uBlock origin in medium mode. I don’t see any videos in the article you linked and I don’t see most of the annoyances many people complain about.

This is a rather strict setup that can break some sites, but over time you can tune it to make most sites work without intervention on future visits.

I agree with spreading it across multiple smaller servers. Sadly, this is my third account after my previous instances shut down. So, there are some risks on that side as well.