Yes, that’s exactly it: the discoverability. I joined a small to medium server, and I thought that Pixelfed’s search would be like the one in Mastodon: search for a hashtag and get results from all of the other federated servers, but no. The search function doesn’t seem to work with hashtags, so subscribing to one is a pain.

And the available apps are not very good. And the official one hasn’t been released yet.

Besides Lemmy, I have a Mastodon account. I’m not very active, though. I’m also on BlueSky, but because most of the post where uninteresting to me I uninstalled the app months ago and hadn’t logged in since. And I’m exploring Pixelfed, but my experience hasn’t been so good.

Something like this Firefox theme, but with some violet mixed in.

Tab Stash seems to be what you’re looking for.

In Mexico they are:

• Preescolar/Kinder/Jardín de niños (Preschool): ages 3-5 years old (can vary from state to state).
• Primaria (Elementary school): 6 years. Ages 6-12.
• Secundaria (Middle school): 3 years. Ages 12-15.
• Preparatoria/Bachillerato (High school): 3 years. Ages 15-18.
• Universidad (University, undergrad education): 2-8 years.
• Posgrado (Postgraduate education): Variable length. In my field a “Maestría” (Master’s degree) is 2 years, and a “Doctorado” (PhD) is 4 years.

What you’re looking for is called RSS. Install a RSS client, subscribe to some blogs or interesting sites like Aeon, Psyche, Nautilus, Longreads or Hacker News and add them to your client. Then you can scroll mindlessly through your own curated list of educational content.

Thanks! I wrote that when on mobile, so I didn’t think to add instructions 😅. Also, if the user needs to allow some cookies, they can be set at Settings > Privacy & Security > Cookies & Site Data > Manage Exceptions.

Is to prevent that that you configure UBO in medium mode. Since many cookie banners are loaded by a 3rd party script, they’re blocked by UBO when configured this way. For the rest I use one of the “Annoyances” filter that come preinstalled. Since the time I adopted this method (~3 years) I think I can count the number of cookie banners I’ve seen with the fingers of one hand.

Configure uBlock Origin in medium mode and set Firefox to delete cookies on quitting. Easy.

I’ve been using Firefox Vertical Tabs since 1 or 2 years ago and my experience has been satisfactory. Now, I’m not a vertical tabs power user or something like that, and if suddenly I cannot use them anymore I can go back to use horizontal tabs without much problem. At this point I’m just accustomed to them, but they’re not an integral part of my workflow.