That’s a wonderful tool that I was unaware of, thank you for pointing it out!

Your experience is the tip of the iceberg.

If you look at the permissions required by essential, or at least widely used applications, you’ll discover a dizzying array of data exfiltration that is hidden in plain sight, made obscure by Google’s continuing efforts to hide the extent of this deep rooted ecosystem.

Don’t life jackets have an expiration date?

While they’re at it, could they please also penalize Android app developers who do this too?

It’s not too late.

I understand your concerns and I have as little confidence in the concept of crypto as it currently exists as you’re expressing.

I had no intention to peg a user’s CPU, but if we extend the concept of CPU cycles for content, perhaps a browser could process some data or make calculations, like say data analytics, or some other distributed process that would benefit the author and in doing so would allow both to have a win-win experience.

Wasn’t that a quote from the most recent episode of The Pitt, just after Dr. J was discovered sitting on a bed making a video?

Can you elaborate why you think that your comment requires a sarcasm tag?

I’m asking because getting the reader to contribute some CPU cycles whilst they read your content seems to be a way to balance the books, they get something from you, you get something from them.

Note that I’m not a fan of Bitcoin et. al., but the idea of making the reader’s computer calculate something or process something on the authors’ behalf seems, at least at first glance, a valid and potentially unobtrusive transaction.

I have some success by using the “Hide Read Posts”, but it’s pretty flakey.

Noted on both, though I wasn’t aware that I was asking for ICT support, rather I was attempting to discover if the problem I was seeing was unique to me or experienced by others, which turns out to be the case.

I’d rather not delete this thread, but if the mods feel that it’s in breach of the rules, I’ll abide by their ruling.

As a creator, I’d be much more interested in a way to get paid into my actual bank account in such a way that didn’t involve Bitcoin (et. al.), PayPal or Stripe.

It works as it’s currently implemented.

That said, I’d like it to comply with my preference for Dark Mode without me having to install a browser extension to forcefully recolour the interface.

Not really. Sometimes I even get to the end of the feed :)

When I relaunched 20 minutes ago, it took about three screen fulls to find some already seen posts, then a whole lot of new, then more old ones from nine or so hours ago when I checked at lunchtime.

I understand. That’s not what I’m seeing, it’s the same (sequence) of posts.

But I’ve seen those posts before, so I’m not sure how I could have seen them if they hadn’t been pushed to my instance already.

Also, only one Lemmy account, so no potentially spurious side effects from switching between accounts.

Sort is set to set to All:New

Which is also weird. I just saw several one of those posts, 8 hours old in the middle of the feed.

I can still remember the immensely satisfying keyboard clunk when typing great swaths of text in MacWrite.

If that was true I’d see the odd duplicate post, not a string of them. Voyager also shows crosposts like a post within a post, and I’m not seeing that.

So … not made from potato then?

Tah. I’ll have a look see.