Yup, came here to say that as well. it's al bots. The active users graph is much more realistic.
And I've been seeing some...odd looking.... comments recently from users at instances known for being mostly bots. Some of these comments really look AI generated, and have a suspicious number of upvotes.
Were you able to figure out how to do this? I have the same question.
They didn't switch sides. They created a third side. A Mêlée à Trois.
Me too. I went back and checked Chrome, and that was indeed my fault. I was being a doorknob, and so led myself astray, lol.
Still working, so far! :)
Wild idea, but could it just be that you’re using it wrong? :D if you’re on lemmy.ca then almost nothing should be rewritten because almost all links already go to lemmy.ca. Only when you go to another instance somehow or a user posts a link, for example this one then it should be rewritten.
I did think of that! Sure wouldn't be the first time I've done something like that, hehehe!! But no. For example, I'm on lemmy.ca, so I tried going to lemmy.ml and lemmy.world to see what the links looked like there. One of those I have a different account which I was logged in to, and the other I have no account so wasn't signed in. Nothing.
However, I've been trying a few things here, including disabling all my other extensions and scripts, which didn't make any difference. So then I left every extension disabled, removed your script, removed the few other scripts I installed in violentmonkey, removed violentmonkey, reinstalled violentmonkey and your script....and it was working again once more. So, I figured some other script or extension was causing havoc, so I renabled the other extensions and reinstalled the other scripts one by one, checking each time. They're all enabled again. Still working. I dunno....... Obviously something really weird is happening on my end. Right now, it's working, so I'll let you know if it starts to act odd again. My thinking right now is some other extension or script was messing something up big time, and all the disabling and re-enabling sorted it out somehow.
My working hypothesis right now: The issue wasn't your script, it was something else on my system.
Thanks for your help with this, btw!
Yup, that's my thinking too that there must be something weird going on here, though I can't imagine what.
Just for fun, I fired up Chrome instead of Firefox, installed violentmonkey, installed your script, and am having the exact same issue there! I did get the dialog asking me to set the home instance, which I did, but no button in settings and no icons. No idea what's going on.
Does it work again when you do a full refresh? So F5/press enter in the adress bar?
It does not. I've tried that several times. Also tried opening a new tab and typing the site url directly.
...and I spoke too soon. Worked fine when I installed it. As soon as I went to another page on the instance it stopped working again. No icons, no button in settings. No idea what's going on.
Gave violentmonkey a try. Your script worked perfectly immediately. So yeah, something in greasemonkey was causing the issues.
Thanks for writing this, looks great so far!!
Yeah, that's not a bad idea. I think I'll give that a try a bit later when I get some time, as I'll have several scripts I'll need to move over to it.
I came across this one on userstyles.world and didn't see it referenced here. It's probably the most 'old reddit' looking of all of the one's I've seen so far.
About 2.45 million of the 2.5 are, yes.