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[–] mrmanager 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The author of Lemmy is really tired of ads and big tech so will never happen. :)

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its FOSS as well, so even if they introduce ads for some insane reason, we can fork the software and de-federate the new "adiverse."

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I use Lemmy on desktop browser as I did with Reddit. An interesting note is my uBlock Origin extension shows a counter in the address bar for blocks of any kind. It did a pretty good job of blocking ads on Reddit and I would see pretty big numbers in the counter.

On Lemmy the counter never trips. I don't think there's any web site I visit regularly that doesn't trip at least a few counts. Since my uBO extension is set up to block all kinds of undesirable stuff, not just ads, it demonstrates how clean the coding is for Lemmy.