I don't want to get philosophical on the first part of this comment, but the second part is sadly just wrong. Paying attention and spending more money most often doesn't change a bit - at least where I'm shopping. Maybe the animals have a little more space on their factories and their feeding uses slightly less land, water etc.
But this is a very important point for many vegans: It is a way to critique and boycott a very shitty system that doesn't allow for any good choices.
That is very nice! But most people don't have their backyard chickens. What I mean is that many people think the meat they buy at the supermarket is not from factory farms. Sadly, most of it is. Like it is litterally characteristic for the industry to come back to your comment. Of course not 100%, but very close.
I think that more freedom is better for the network and every user and instance should choose for themselves what they want to see. But I agree with you that it should be easier to find an instance that suits your preferences, especially if you are not yet familiar with other instances
Average is the mean (i.e. sum of all "skill" divided by the amount of programmers)
What they were thinking of is the median (50th percentile = 0.5 quantile), which splits the group in two equal sized groups.
For a bell curve, they are the same values. But think of the example of average incomes: 9 people have an income of 10$, one has an income of 910$. The average income is 100$ ((10*9+910)/10). The median is basically 10 however.
Huh, sad to hear. Do the recipe sources have the recipe markup or is it parsed directly from html?