Yeah I am just having a look on my phone and it runs smoother than the "old new" design for me. The "classic" view it defaults to isn't bad either.
It does not show the OP on the front page until you go into the comments or a subreddit, and for whatever reason has the comments button open a new tab which I don't like.
With a few tweaks, I'd hapilly use it if I had to. I'd always prefer old reddit's design though.
When the majority of the world has been using centralised platforms that don't have the complexities federated platforms do, it's understandable that there will be people that get confused over why there are several "Lemmy" servers, or why they can't sign into a Lemmy server when they signed up on another, or why when they try to find a Lemmy community on their server they can't see it, but they can in Google.
Somehow email providers have avoided this problem, I think because they are pre-installed on devices as the "Email" app.
Yeah the way the data is structured makes it looks like a straight dump from their databases that no doubt is automated.
The amount of data that they do provide in there is much more than I was expecting, compared to some other platforms I've seen that do the bare minimum by dumping some basic metadata for your account and that's it.
I recall reading that they won't do anything as the comments are content that you willingly submitted. The most they will do is suggest you delete your account to "anonymise" them, but all that does is replace the username with "[deleted]".
You can use a tool like Shreddit to edit and remove all of your comments in bulk. Feeding it your GDPR SAR folder will allow it to get past the 1000 comment backlog limit.
Yes for some people it is the subscription cost, or not wanting to support Blizzard, or wanting to re-experience an old version of the game as accurately as possible.
There are also those people that like hopping between realms whenever new ones are launched to get the "fresh" experience and don't mind losing an old character when they've done all they've wanted to with it.
I do hope that more of these projects allowed you to export your character data to perhaps use on your own self-run private server. None of the ones I've seen allow you to do that.
There's a few third-party apps that have been granted exemptions from the API pricing changes, but other than that the majority of users are using the official reddit app or "new" reddit website because they don't know any better.
There are also some games that are designed around the slowdown in mind, and not just on the PlayStation. For example games developed by Cave like Dodonpachi, Ketsui, etc. slow down on original hardware when there are a lot of bullets on the screen, which intentionally gives the player an easier time to weave through dense bullet patterns even if the character is moving slower too. Rereleases and emulators need to recreate that slowdown otherwise the player is going to have a bad time.
Of course there are games like Driver where the slowdown is just because of the hardware and the developers either designed the game to skip frames or tied things to the framerate. Sonic Adventure 2 comes to mind where the whole game is tied to its 60fps framerate cap and slows down as the franerate dips.
Have any instances considered taking money for running advertisements? I don't mean the type where they are shoved between posts or following you down the page with flashing animated gifs, but subtle banners that may appear at the top or the side of the page.
The avatars also have a visual effect to them next to comments.
I think people don't like this at all not just because NFTs bad, but also because it changes reddit more and more from the website it used to be for commenting on articles & images into crypto social media.
Firefox has its own syncing system via a Firefox account that'll sync your bookmarks, open tabs, history, logins, etc..
Firefox on desktop does support multiple profiles, but they are nowhere near as convenient as Chrome's which is just a few clicks.