Chiming in from a USA user. Their webmail and suite run slow in the USA. Once it loads the page initially though, it uses localstorage.

However, back when I used them less than a year ago, they had random periods where the websuite did not load.

Finally, they have a really bad 2fa implementation that is not documented and I had to search Reddit to figure out how to log in.

I also did not come here for politics.

I came here as an alternative to reddit.

What I did to fix it was to find similar Lemmy communities to those subreddits. I also set up filtering to block out key words, names, etc.

It makes it a lot more bearable.

One thing I’ve noticed, Lemmy and Reddit are run in a large part by content bots when it comes to non-politics. There are some exceptions. I recommend you make peace with the bots and appreciate the content (all the while contributing content yourself of course).

Maybe, I don’t know if it was on purpose. But the red lines are the red-fade-to-pink effect of the progress bar I believe, and I have not found a need for such a feature, so they might be using this feature as an excuse to claim the need of canvas.

You can keep canvas blocked on YouTube. To stop the red lines, do this:

Click uBlock Origin icon (top right of the browser, small red shield).

Click the gears icon (“Open the dashboard”).

Click “My filters” tab. Make sure “Enable my custom filters” is checked.

Add the following string to the list of filters:

www.youtube.com##.ytp-gradient-bottom

Click “Apply changes”.

Reload your youtube video page.

Look at that. An email address that will be instantly added to every spammers list. And they know the owner has money too.