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…No. It’s because Lemmy content and users are duplicated into hundreds of instances. Websites are ranked independently and because they’re so split, none of them are popular enough to be on search engines. There are plenty of ad-free sites that show up on page one.

some speculate that because the content is the same across all these instances, Lemmy might be getting caught in the spam filter too.

The vintage story dev said he’s gotten 20+ job applications but since they’re a small indie studio he realistically won’t hire more than a few.

You don’t say, attempting to pirate games with the MIG cartridge while you’re online is suicide.

The good news is that they’re only banning consoles from playing online, not bricking them like many said they would.

Wikipedia has a lot more donors, but also their costs are probably cheaper than Signal. They mostly host text and decently compressed images, Signal uses way more bandwidth and people share high quality videos and other huge files. The servers are very expensive, there were articles estimating their cost to be around $50M per year.

Makes sense., something as huge and expensive as Signal can’t run entirely on donations.