They could be pulling something sneaky here. The vast majority of people lurk, and most people who lurk probably don’t even have accounts. If you haven’t bothered to sign up, you probably haven’t bothered to use the old interface or a third party application. It wouldn’t surprise me if the vast majority of their traffic comes through the standard web interface, even if the stats for user activity paint a different picture.

Lmao this shit is remining me of the hostile take-over of FreeNode.

This could potentially be implemented as a Lemmy theme, which users would be able to select on the settings page.

It is a mixed bag. When reading excessively long lines of text, it becomes difficult to locate the next line after completing one. Allowing lines of text to become too long is considered poor typography for this reason. When the lines are constrained to a reasonable length, the text becomes easier to read. Think about a page from a novel, or a sheet of A4 paper. They are shaped like that for a reason. Of course, images and video are another story. Constraining the size of an image or video with such wide margins does nothing to aid visibility.

Back in 1995 we had an “Internet Phonebook.” Literally a 4 inch thick book which listed domain names and brief descriptions. This was before / just as the search engines we know today were taking off. Google was founded in 1998. Alta Vista and Yahoo! had only just been founded in '95.

Second on Fedora. It ships pretty bleeding edge software, is very well integrated, has timely updates (new release every 9 months). I’ve set up family and coworkers with it and its kept them going for years with next to no problems. If you install it yourself, you probably want to add the RPM Fusion repository for proprietary video drivers and media codecs.

I use Gentoo personally, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you have an insatiable compulsion to tinker with things.