It seems like that page might not be taking into account income from other platforms though; it estimates the annual budget as being €4,000, despite the official monthly budget (as listed on their Mastodon blog as of last September) being €1,700.

The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?

When the U.S. sends them, they don’t send their best.

Interestingly, a quick search of the name “Mongol Khan” also leads to the February 1987 NES game Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll (the sprite in this set matches the Mongol Khan listing here). While the name ‘Mongol Khan’ is about par for the course in terms of Punch Out cultural stereotypes, I wonder if they were perhaps originally planning a crossover?

Alternatively, they could have found out that the name wasn’t unique and chose an alternate character idea instead.

Agreed; Russia is a terrorist state that has committed atrocities in Ukraine, interfered in the affairs and territorial integrity of its neighbors, and denied its own citizens basic human rights.

In this rare instance, however, its foreign policy goal of opposing U.S. foreign policy has the side benefit of disrupting one of Trump’s blatant violations of international law. Not because Russia itself cares for a second about international law, though.

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

A military dictatorship isn’t particularly representative of freedom.

simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization

AKA collect more data for advertisers.

Discouraging Fediverse participation isn’t a helpful solution to disagreement.

There is core limitations on Lemmy which cannot be fixed even on the long term( for example finding communities via search. Results from .world is very different from the result that your instance fetch

Lemmy Federate is designed to overcome this limitation through automated community federation.

no ability to upload media with the same ease and speed of Reddit,…etc)

This depends on the frontend or app you choose to use. Most Lemmy apps support in-app media uploads.

Herd mentality is very deep on Lemmy, compared to other social media websites

Herd mentality is just as much of a problem of Reddit; there’s just more users there, so more ‘herds’ are able to form.

Lemmy users would like to have a working cancel culture so much that they would have no problem deepthroating a dick to get it

Grouping all Lemmy users together falsely assumes they all share the same opinions and blocking preferences. In any case, instances attract users by tailored moderation practices; users should join the instance that best matches their preferences. While some viewpoints—such as those promoting fascism, transphobia, or racism—are generally unwelcome across major instances, a certain baseline is needed in civilized society to have discussions in which no one is excluded on the basis of who they are.

About moderation, I feel the only outcome that will happen is bad moderation (IMO) will keep happening on the platform till either the servers hosting communities go down or till the mod become inactive.

A very broad generalization about a wide array of moderators and rules across communities, but if you don’t like the way a community or instance is run, just block it and move on. I gladly block all of lemmy.ml and my All feed is better for it.

On a side note it feels like a lot of Lemmy servers are suffering financially and might close soon,

What gives that impression? While donating towards server costs is important, and a handful of notable instances such as lemm.ee have closed, most instances seem to be doing fine.

while Lemmy developers did not even try to help them by implementing third party upload functionality(Imgbox, catbox, imgur,…etc) in the app and the web front end to lighten the load on the server admins.

Have you tried alternative frontends and/or apps? The default Lemmy frontend is known to be simplistic in comparison and should be considered more of a reference implementation than anything.

Ultimately, the Threadiverse is still relatively small and will hopefully continue to improve as Lemmy, Piefed, and Mbin are developed further. All of the core features of Reddit are present, without the commercialization that has left it degraded.

Not unexpected given how inactive it’s been, but still unfortunate.

More options and innovation is good, though I’m not sure there’s enough users yet to viably support a fourth mainline Threadiverse protocol. Mbin serves the same role Catodon is trying to fill and doesn’t have many users as it is.

Alternative to CBS.

Any form of age verification is a violation of user privacy.

They have everything to lose if other countries provide support to the U.S. Iran is already infringing upon Oman’s sovereignty by stopping ships from transiting the straight through its territorial waters. Not allowing neutral third parties to use the straight bribe-free incentives otherwise neutral countries to side against it.

The U.S. is in the wrong for starting the war, but Iran placing a toll on 30 percent of the world’s oil will just further convince other countries to side against it.

Every APK installation from outside of the Play Store gives an installation warning. It’s unnecessary and deliberately trying to make such installations seem less secure in comparison.

A beneficial warning would highlight the many privacy risks in installing apps from the Play Store instead of privacy-respecting alternatives from F-Droid.

The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be, and now it will be getting even worse. There should be no difference in installing an APK via Google Play versus any other method.

The fact that the process will still have a ‘security’ warning each and every time after the 24 hour wait period shows that even for “advanced users” they want to make it as inconvenient as possible while claiming to still be keeping Android open.

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.