Somehow? Paying to remove ads is rewarding ads thus causing more ads in the world. It's not mysterious at all.
There are plenty of ways to not make it an all or nothing service, but that is at least the most straight forward. You could potentially give some of it away and then have to pay for the rest. Or have some stuff for free and more premium content is paid for. Or perhaps based on bandwidth with video quality / resolution.
Anything that is not ads is going to be an improvement.
Paying to remove ads is part of the ad business model. Upset your customer enough until they give you money to make it stop. Once you pay to remove the ads you have rewarded them for implementing ads which lets them know that implementing ads was a great way at making money.
So YouTube premium is not another model. It is the same model. Another model is paying for a service that never had ads at all such as NebulaTV or CuriosityStream.
It is at least a different problem, but adding in the element that any failure is a fatal one it just isn't enough that there are less obstacles in the way.
At least for normal non-tech oriented people it is a Twitter without Elon Musk. Which I suppose is an improvement despite it still being Jack Dorsey.
I think it will be important to see how it is potentially monetized. If they can find some way to stay alive without going down the enshitification rabbit hole with ads and prioritized posts with paid subscriptions like Twitter then that would also be an improvement in my opinion.
That is a peculiar problem I have not seen or heard f before. It doesn't sound like it is completely freezing if it keeps letting you play the game. Just windows behind the game is freezing?
Do you play in fullscreen mode where it takes complete control over the graphics output of your monitor? I wonder if there is some driver bug that is not properly relinquishing control of the monitor to your OS when you minimize the game. If possible I'd try playing in either windowed fullscreen mode or just windowed mode next time as a test.
Also it is always worth updating your graphics drivers too.
It appears that there will be no ads and the only monetization is for advanced features. Assuming that actually is true that is a respectable way to monetize something.
I'm glad it is gone, but I suppose it doesn't answer the question of what this hidden message was. Thankfully messages don't actually disappear just because you cleared the notification. You could investigate your past messages list still.
Because you can't see this comment most likely. Lemmy world admins ban a lot of people and defederate a lot of instances and communities.
There is also the case of bots and you may have bots turned off in your settings.