If losing third party apps ruins your reddit experience (oh no) just find another app or website.

Quite good advice.

ah, I just remember the time I was the 1.000.000th visitor and got a price for it. Next day a nigerian prince mailed me for help.

Long time ago I was reading stuff about distributed systems and I read about ActivityPub. Given all my real-life friends are using corporation-based social networks, I never made an account in Mastodon.

Until a few days ago that I tried to upload a cat video to Instagram and it lagged a lot. It was very frustrating. I noticed how ads were loading super fast, though. So I finally decided to create an account on Mastodon.