Google gave up WEI, for now at least. They will try again later though. https://securityboulevard.com/2023/11/google-wei-is-dead-richixbw/

It’s because he just regurgitates all his takes from /g/ on 4chan.

because it’s easier to get around with a vpn, but if it’s at the software level it wouldn’t be as easy. They could make it so only France approved browsers could be downloaded.

Reddit is a lot of peoples only form of community, especially if it’s obscure interests. Without it your more or less trapped in your local area.

The transformation is complete we are officially better than reddit.

I think having the defaults set to global instead of local when searching will make it easier for new users to find communities and only show a few lemmy instances that are good to show for new users, the biggest complaint is that lemmy ( and all federated services ) are too complicated trying to find a instance.

I’d think it would be a hard sell. But, it’s hard to see other revenue models.

I think peertube has a livestreaming option. But, i don’t think a lot of streamers would jump to it because lack of monetization options.