I have a similar story, used to drink a litre of coke every couple of days when I was 15. At some point I decided I didn't want that life any more and quit. It's been several years now and I still can't stand the taste of coke. It just tastes so artificial with an awful after taste; and I've never really had a sweet tooth anyway.
Do you use split tabs at all? I've found hiding the side pane and having multiple split tabs open in one window is a lot great when I'm trying to focus on work. Also not something totally new, but I use their Boosts feature a lot more than I expected, it's great to quickly "zap" elements from websites that I frequent.
Getting used to Arc's keyboard shortcuts and command palette has made it pretty indispensable in my work flow.
Are there any decent alternatives for the Chrome Web store? Are there unified extension hubs for chromium/firefox with version history similar to how android has apk websites
Companies have already begun using RCS as an opportunity to flood my phone with ads that take up way too much space in the notification shade. Also not from the US, so I can just use a 3rd party app
Why do you believe spammers - who make money off the platform, would be unwilling to spend a nominal sum to stay relevant on the platform.
If that is their business model, it would be pretty stupid to not use the tools provided by the platform to stay relevant, more so when the cost is as cheap as $8 (presumably they're making more than $8 a month, otherwise it wouldn't be lucrative enough to bother).
Whereas an average user that simply wants to consume content would probably just find an alternate for free because they're not gaining any monetary value...
Sync makes Lemmy feel a lot like Reddit, especially since it used to be my go-to app a year ago. Lemmy feels like it's been flooded with repost bots from Reddit making the content feel a lot less engaging.
Personally I'm okay not having the topic on Lemmy if there aren't any people posting about it.
For Android there's Jerboa which seems to have the most features and Liftoff which is still getting there. Personally I like Thunder which supports iOS as well, I got it off GitHub
I think it's a good idea letting people get used to 2D apps in VR. Apple could've done more to first party apps to use their 3D space because they clearly showed us it works with the butterfly, dinosaur bit. I guess it depends on the developers now?
I think that's unlikely to happen, this is largely anecdotal but while most redditors started on 3rd party apps, I've seen a lot more casual friends who only use Facebook or Instagram gradually move on to Reddit using their own app.
These people likely make up a large enough number that Reddit no longer feels the need to cater to their original audience. Maybe it's just me, but Reddits been feeling a lot more like Facebook for the past couple of years.
I've never really got into Twitter but to me your comment makes me ask, would you rather learn to be yourself and ignore the shitstorm, or do you want to force yourself to be quiet just because a couple of strangers on the internet didn't like what you had to say. Likely they won't even remember you in a few minutes anyway.
I'm sure there'll always be people who disagree with something you have to say, and Twitter seems to give people an easy way to do so through retweets, but it's better than constantly muting parts of yourself.
Also, I'd probably just block and move on I suppose, I really don't have any frame of reference since I rarely interact with people I don't know online.
Just regular ol' water is eternal