Did you use the Walmart WiFi network to do it?

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

Adding weight to things is a tried and true means for increasing the price because the product “feels more expensive”.

I first came across this with wired headphones something like 40 odd years ago, actual slugs of steel to increase their weight, and it’s still happening today.

Ironically, headphones went the other way for a while, the lighter, the more expensive.

I’ve seen it in headphones, keyboards, mice, even monitors. No doubt it’s used in other products.

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.

Did they find any Chianti at his home?

The other way around…

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

Well, the posts seem to be a sequence of ones I’ve seen before. So, unless several people are each posting the same information to a different community in the same order, I’m pretty confident that it’s old posts.

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.

Paywalled

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.