This used to happen when new subs opened. Most of my feed was just them.

My assumption was that as the sub grew the posts kept getting voted higher than any other on the sub and therefore pushed as top material relative to the subs normal amount of up votes.

This is definitely the answer. Bonus points for contextless clues to getting the other half.

Got to practise firing cannons mate

Exactly. Look at the state of it. We definitely should have taken that.

In fairness it likely wouldn’t be preserved otherwise. So you’re welcome.

I’m afraid it won’t last long without it. That’s the key problem.

People hate ads, as do I, but what’s the alternative?

And, for the foreseeable future at least, advertising is a key commercial engine of the internet, and the most efficient way to ensure the majority of content remains free and accessible to as many people as possible.

I’m afraid they aren’t wrong. The majority of people aren’t going to pay for access to random blogs etc. So we’d end up with only the big players having usable sites.

People kick off about ads but rarely suggest an alternative to funding the internet.

Back in the day ads were targeted based on the website’s target audience not the user’s personal data. It works fine but is less effective. Don’t see why they couldn’t go that way.

I mostly get naked in private

Why not just use the windows machine?