Ohhhhh, OK I get it now.

I always used (and preferred) the official app and wondered why I was the only one haha.

But, I had Reddit Premium until recently, and now I guess AdGuard must be picking up the slack. 😅

I’m now on 24.5.0. I’ve DMed you.

Oh, I’m sure they are. I just mean, if The Masses are going to try anything, it’s going to be the easier of the two options (with loads of marketing behind it). :)

Yeah I haven’t been bothering recently, I gotta be honest. The m0nkrus releases are just too easy haha.

Is the hosts file hack still worth doing, or just go into Windows Firewall and take away its internet access?

Yes, to all of this.

UX people probably call this “friction” or something. I think the fediverse currently has too much “friction” for the average person.

Whereas with Threads it’ll be as simple as tapping the “Continue using Facebook” button. 🤔

Although, people have been saying that since Ellen Pao and Voat… 😅

I think you’re right to a point, but also, the whole fragmented fediverse thing is going to have to… at least be simplified if the “lurking voter” mainstream are going to end up here.

Me (enthusiastically):
“It’s federated, so you have to choose an instance! They’re all different, but they can all talk to each other! Some of them have different rules. Oh, and they can all have their own ‘videos’ community, so you have to decide which ones you want to follow. Also some of the instances are kbin and some are Lemmy, but most likely the website you log into won’t be called either of those things. And if you don’t curate your own frontpage (which doesn’t even show your subs by default) you’ll just see everything at once!”

Average Internet user (starting a new Facebook account because they forgot their password):
“reddit dot com has funny gifs on it”