It’s literally what their entire business is based on. Filtering good and bad traffic.

Look for Signage Displays. They’re basically TVs with different software.

CanvasBlocker works well for that.

That’s partly true.
Religion was the original way to explain the natural world.

Eventually, religion led philosophy, which in turn led to science.

The key difference between religions and cults, is the level of restrictions on outside information.

On that scale cults are at one end, religion in the middle, and science at the other end.

It sounds like you’re thinking there is no way to compete with Reddit. If you charge, people will use Reddit. If you have ads, people will use Reddit. People are only here because there aren’t ads and it’s free?

If you charge, you also have to offer a better experience than the free options. There’s no reason instances can’t use ads for people unwilling or unable to pay. For me I’ll gladly pay for an ad-free experience.

That’s not really how it works. If it was made to work that way, it would still be a relatively small group donating their own compute resources to subsidize everyone else. Which is what we already have, and isn’t very scalable.

The only real option is to charge people.
Hosting isn’t free. It costs money to run a website. That money needs to come from somewhere. If it doesn’t come from advertisers, it must come from users.

There could be a verity options for that. But I like the simple annual subscription. Each and every user pays. Spread out the cost as much as possible. It’s only fair.

I just learned of https://liberapay.com/
Checks at least most of those boxes, and more.

Of course if one truly can’t afford it, paying for search can seem a luxury.

However I would argue as a counterpoint; If there’s any online service one would consider paying for, it should be search. Search is most literally our “front page to the internet”. It’s our first stop in any quest for information. Even the founders of Google knew early on, that putting adds in search creates a perverse incentive against the best results, favoring instead worse results, so people perform more searches, creating more opportunities to show people adds.

$5 a month isn’t much to know your query will give the results you want, instead of the results advertisers want.

I don’t know the details of exactly what and how it works. But “Parental Controls” is what you want to search for in the settings.

Haven’t been able to find a copy of Big Shark by Tommy Wiseau.

That’s what I did.

This Silicon Carbon battery chemistry I’ve learned works different Lithium Ion. SC likes to be charged to 100%. So I’ve been fully charging each night on a slow 15W charger. So far so good.

My 7000mAh lasts 2 days most of the time.
That 10000mAh should go 3 days

Redmagic 10 Pro

Mines got a silicon carbon battery with 7000mA. It’s very nice. Most days I don’t get below 50%.

Do you mean Reddit the company, or the Reddit the community?

I think the answers are “No”, and “A little. It often gets deleted when mentioned.”

Part of me hates myself for asking this. You clearly put a lot of effort into this.

Why? There are at least a couple actual blogging options with ActivityPub support. Why try to force Lemmy into something it isn’t.

The Precise Location Permission description, specifically states that’s what they’re doing.