My understanding is that as rates have gone way down the last couple of years and it wouldn't surprise me if Google just has less high quality ads and is dipping into the crappy cheaper ad buys to fill the space.
Bardak
I've taken two data structures courses in School. My first one in C and a second one in Java. I was happy I took the C one first because in the Java course thrt used over engineered OOP. They used 6 different classes used to make a single binary tree!
Not an answer to your question but when you say " I find that it has battery issues trying to play anything fancy like Skyrim" do you mean that the battery drains while plugged in or that you are mainly playing while not plugged in and your battery life is really short.
If it is the former then you might just need to buy a higher wattage power adapter to sustain. The power draw.
I am missing the ability to see other subreddit/communities conversations on the same link.
How do we handle "dupe" communities?
I think the only really option is to let things play out. This was/is a problem on Reddit see r/gaming vs r/games. Overtime certain communities on certain instances will float to the top.
What's the best way to find new communities?
This still needs some work. It would be nice if you were able to search communities by instance or look just see the hot/active page of a different instance to help with discoverablility. These may be possible but I haven't found how to.
Now we just need to get rid of the image preview for really old farts like me. I also wouldn't mind a theme that gets rid of the inline images in comments and just replaces them with a link.
Seems like a good way to play around with multithreading, SIMD and even shaders if you wanted to.
Unfortunately I don't know of any other platform that would pay creators like YouTube does which is half the reason the YouTube keeps creators.
I hate the crypto bros as much as but I wonder if there is a way to set up a federated video sharing network that has a $5 monthly fee and distribute it over the creators you watcher over the month.