Each instance admin decides whether they require an email. Mine doesn’t, but it’s more important to choose an instance with admins you trust and not located in the US.

Don’t use your real email regardless of instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_pricing this kind. It’s not unusual, although I never liked it either

I believe I used it on reddit, long ago but there were no ads. I was surprised since no other client I know of has them (and no lemmy server has ads).

I use voyager, it’s great.

“This is going very poorly, we will pretend to listen to our customers so it looks like we are course correcting, winning favor with investors and customers (big businesses, not home users).”

They may even switch CEOs if the situation worsens, but the practices remain.

Yeah they will recall their plan soon enough

Why does your lemmy client have ads?