I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.
Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.
Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.
Yeah, it seems to work now. Didn't used to work reliably a few years ago. Now, text within any document I save seems to come up in search shortly afterwards.
It's things like this that make me glad that my email service defaults to not loading any images/links/html. There's a small button at the top to load them if I want.
Yes, I remember that! I recall thinking, imagine how good this will get in the future. Sadly it didn't.
Exactly the same in Australia.
This.
I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of "never visit" sites.
In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.
But to read the odd crappy article? No I'm not disabling my ad blocker.
Yes, they are less prevalent due to Reddit and other social media sucking up a lot of the users.
They are still around though. One Australian forum that I've been on for years which is still very active is Whirlpool. Started as a tech forum and expanded. It's very useful as source of info as it's been around over 20 years and a lot of questions have been asked and answered there.
Agreed, it's so good.