Vivaldi and Brave can modify Chromium to disable this feature. Chromium is open source after all.

Reddit was the same way after the Digg migration. Everyone was talking about Digg for a while. Over time, Digg mentions became more and more rare.

How would this make us immortal?

App users still make API calls to Twitter’s domain. Depending on the domain name, these app users might still be counted.

It measures the most popular sites by dns lookup. Twitter fell from 32nd to 39th.

What’s a voice mail?

While playing video games for hours with no break.

California already has a law for this and they’re doing just fine

What does your username mean?

It’s likely used for fingerprinting, not optimization.

I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it’s almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

I wonder if search engines will see content duplicated across multiple instances and derank them thinking it’s SEO spam. Or maybe I’m overthinking since google is already full of SEO spam.

Moderating is time consuming, tedious and done by volunteers. I’m not surprised that they get overrun after the latest influx of users.