Well, I mean… not much better.

Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.

It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

this whole thing took me a while to process, ngl

What motivated you to leave?

He’s a dream divine and we make love together 🎶

OK, so super weird. Private window behavior was the same. However, when I created a new profile (I am on Firefox 128.0), everything showed up normally. I tried everything to pinpoint the issue.

I restarted my faulty profile window with all extensions disabled, no change. I cleared all my history and cache, no change. I have a custom userChrome.css, so I moved it out of the way, no change. I logged out (because my new profile was not logged in), no change.

At this point, I noticed that the settings in my new profile window were different (I have “top 6 hours” selected in my usual profile), so I set everything to be the same as the settings in the new profile window. When I did that, everything started appearing again.

But the weird part is: when I reset it back to the way it was… everything is still working.

So I tried my best to get an actual answer to what’s going on here, but I’ve come up empty. Something about resetting the settings frees up whatever was going on, in case anybody watching sees this.

Edit: so yeah, I went to my other computer, a Mac laptop - that was experiencing the same issue, and as soon as I changed “top 6 hour” to “hot” - everything came back. Subsequently changing it back to “top 6 hour” did not have any negative effect. So that’s the “solution,” such as it is.

Literally every comment section. Including this one. In fact, I saw I had mail, so I saw your reply here in my inbox, but when I clicked on the thread link to view your comment, it says “there doesn’t seem to be anything here.” Here, look at this very thread that you yourself have posted in:

https://old.lemmy.world/post/17528547

But it’s literally every single comment section. My original post is a link to a comment section on a thread about Bernie Sanders:

https://old.lemmy.world/post/17524695

Replace “old” in the URL with “www” and you can see they are not empty.

But again, it’s not just these two, it’s all of them. They’re all like that.

Checkmate, atheists.

Milkman Dan!

Do the gay vampires feed on chickens?

Everybody is blaming SEO, which is true - but Google is also hamstrung by walled gardens.

Before Facebook, most content posted to the web was open. It could be viewed by anyone without logging in. Reddit even uses this paradigm.

But then Facebook started putting everything behind their account login and suddenly, Google can no longer spider a significant amount of the conversation going on on the Internet - and it can’t link you to it either, because the link would be dead if you weren’t a logged-in Facebook user. And of course it’s not just Facebook.

This is why appending site:reddit.com has come into fashion in the past couple years. Reddit, being open, viewable without a login, is a fantastic source for finding people who are talking about exactly what you’re searching for.

And it’s another reason why Meta is cancer: all the conversations going on about whatever problem you are experiencing that made you do a search in the first place, if they exist in private groups on something like Facebook - they are useless to you and useless to anyone but the members of that private group. We are losing our giant public knowledge base because capitalism.