I did the exact same thing. I’ve been using the name for decades and recently found out about this. My initial reaction was, “Fuck them. I’ve had this username for years and I’m not gong to change it just for them.” Unfortunately, while I know that it isn’t related to them, no one else does. It sucks that they get to take possession of it like that but I prefer the inconvenience of changing usernames over the mistaken association with that shit, so I changed the ones I could and abandoned the ones I couldn’t.

These are fantastic. I want to see the movie.

I’m having the same issue, though not as often you seem to be. I was able to scroll through after refreshing the page. The weird thing though is that I refreshed the page because of the flood of new posts, but afterward the page was at its initial state. All of the new posts were gone.

Also, any pics I expand to look at seem to close themselves at random once I’ve moved on. Sometimes right away, sometimes later on. This also moves the list around while I’m trying read.

I know this isn’t helpful to you, but hopefully someone who knows about these things will see it and might have a solution for us.

Also, if it matters, I’m using Firefox on mobile.

I agree completely. Just yesterday I was trying to get help on a computer problem my son was having. Usually I could just search for the issue with reddit at the end and get sent to a post where someone had a similar problem and others chimed in with possible solutions. I always preferred this because of the variety of answers, as whatever problem I’m having is rarely exactly the same as what the OP is having. Unfortunately all I could find, even without “reddit” at the end of the search, was blacked out reddit posts and thinly veiled ad sites.

I’m sure that lemmy will one day be just as helpful, once it grows and once I’m more familiar with it, but for now the situation is infuriating.