Is there any way to get ad free without a subscription? I was happy to buy a paid version of the app before, but an ongoing subscription isn't really what I want.

Edit: it is not advertised as much as Ultra, but there is a one off payment option to remove ads, in the sidebar. Which I purchased!

It's gonna be heavily moderated and anything negative will be removed, probably.

Depends on the city. In my city, you could walk across the whole thing in maybe an hour, and anything major the furthest you would have to walk is about 30 minutes.

Remember when the Oculus first came out, and people said in a few years that VR would get cheaper? Those people didn't anticipate Apple.

Is it possible to make Lemmy (the system as a whole) able to be compatible with horizontally scaling instances? I don't see why an instance has to be confined to one server, and this would allow for very large instances that can scale to meet demand.

Edit: just seen your other comment https://lemmy.ml/comment/453391

I'm sure you know this, but getting progressively larger servers is not the only way, why not scale horizontally?

I say this as someone with next to no idea how Lemmy works.

As @RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ml says, create a distributed index of usernames, and do not allow the same username to be registered twice.

I'd also propose at the same time to create a Discord style username system to avoid potential clashes - if this system is going to become large (mainstream) then eventually available usernames will be hard to choose from.

Using a good programming language does not guarantee a good product. You have to give credit where it's due.

I agree. I made a post earlier to promote discussion, and it was downvoted more than I expected because people did not agree with the question I guess?

I would still argue that if a post or comment provides useful discourse, it should be upvoted or at the very least, not downvoted.

I just went to check out !mechanicalkeyboards@lemmy.ml but it's not very active. I'd like to see some new posts there.

(edit: how do you link to communities here?)

Relevant xkcd which sums up the situation nicely: xkcd: Cutting Edge

I'm new here! And proud to be the 100th upvoter of this post. Very impressed with the system from what I have seen so far.