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  • It’s just how the fediverse works in general. Content is sent to recipients, similar to email. Which includes your followers. But if you’re not a recipient, you never receive the content.

    On Lemmy it’s less of an issue for individual users because communities act as relays. They take posts and comments made to them and forward them to all their followers. It is however a problem for communities themselves.

    Lemmy does have Lemmy Federate however, which helps improve the reach of its communities. You just enter your community and it’ll use puppet accounts on various instances, both big and small, to subscribe to it, allowing you to reach the world even from a self-hosted instance. I don’t think the Mastodon side has something like that for users.




  • There have been some users reporting they get ads despite being Premium users, especially in regards to Youtube’s efforts to bypass adblockers (even if they weren’t using one). I always assumed that’s because their measures were misidentifying the lack of ads as using an ad blocker, even if that lack was due to using premium.

    Just wanted to give an actual explanation. I’m not qualified to actually confirm or deny whether those user reports were factual or made up. But people usually consider them factual because of herd mentality.


  • Not just the premium part, but also it affecting descriptions makes me think this is some kind of bug. At least partially. There’s not really any point to disabling descriptions specifically, most people don’t read them anyway.

    “there’s currently no way around it” “The issue goes away with a refresh”

    The way I understand it, the issue only resolves if you refresh while on the video you want to watch. Navigating to another video would unfix it again. So it’s not really a real fix the way most people expect a fix to look like. They want something they can apply and then they don’t have to deal with the problem anymore. Which, based on this article, only disabling your adblocker achieves.


  • For people who only go off headlines and comments and don’t read the article, here’s the important bits:

    • This only affects some users, not everyone
    • The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty
    • The issue goes away with a refresh, you don’t need to turn off the adblocker, though you’ll have to refresh every video
    • It affects all videos
    • The link to adblockers is due to everyone who is reporting the issue being a user of an adblocker, and turning it off fixing the issue permanently until it’s turned on again
    • There’s no specific browser or adblocker mentioned in the article
    • It affects Premium users too

    edit: added “the article” after “don’t read” to clarify