sudoer777

It was probably the lemmy.ml word filter, not lemmy.world

A lot of the other free sites are blocking users also

On Telegram, MyInsta is "instasmash", Instaflow is "instaflowupdates"

There isn't a functional open source frontend that I'm aware of, the best you can get is modded like MyInsta or Instaflow (or Revanced if you want open source mods)

I saw it as an open source Reddit alternative a few years ago and signed up, then left and went back to Reddit because nobody was using it. Then the API stuff happened, some Reddit users switched to Lemmy so I've been browsing it now, switched between a few instances and am now back here.

(I do wish it had more communities for specific topics and locations like Reddit has, and ironically a lot of FOSS discussion is still on Reddit also.)

Idk what people need Brave for, the only Chromium-only site I came across this entire year was the GrapheneOS web installer. LibreWolf is completely free of ads and tracking though so it's better than Brave. Firefox's news feed has been suspiciously similar to stuff I've browsed and it has ads also so I don't trust FF either.

The tweet came several days after the LinkedIn post, people need to not just believe everything they see on the internet

Or use a distro that doesn't come with ads

Even university presidents can't exactly meet this standard, mine pushed anti-Palestine and censored pro-Palestine rhetoric, arrested 20 protestors, fired the head of the student newspaper after they criticized the arrests, and kept inviting weapons manufacturer representatives on campus and probably had investments in them too.

Yeah the exact thing you described happened here as well, it's a tiny bit annoying although not enough for me to switch instances over

I've read comments from people who start with a confusing statement seeming to use definitions of words that aren't commonly accepted and when asked to explain their definition resort to ad hominem and topic switching rather than defending their point that their definition is a commonly accepted use of that word.

I didn't say the definition was correct because Wikipedia says so, I said that's how the word is normally defined, and the Wikipedia definition (which was the first thing that popped up) aligns with my experiences with how I've seen the word used. So when you say the word "tankie" includes anarchists, I'm wondering whose definition or what reasoning are you pulling from.