Thats not even accounting for all the bots, alts and inactive accounts; it wouldnt surprise me in the least if the majority of those were bots or throwaways. Another benefit of lemmy's setup is that individual servers will be fairly small so theres tons of space for smaller communities with higher quality discussion, even if it does end up causing duplicate communities across instances.

Id wager that they dont put too much money into R&D and just pay one guy to port over the same code from their last last last generation printer to the new one. Over time its become an unrecognizable mess that is just hacked into working and no one ever takes a look under the hood. Their main market is the ink anyways, so making the printer good at what it does is an afterthought

The south park "cut a chicken's head of and see where it stops running";

ReVanced also for a more stock youtube app with adblock and sponsorblock, and return youtube dislikes

I use DNS66

Freedom of speech is from consequences from the government. That means you cannot be prosecuted for insulting politicians for example. But you can certainly be sued in civil court for the same thing.

Hmm, Im in dark mode but it might be because of OS settings

ETA: settings on the left, look and feel, theme

No dedicated toggle button but I personally always use dark mode