This is frequently brought up as a problem for twitch as well. On the rare times someone decides to check out a new streamer without many viewers they get ads before the stream and most people aren’t going to sit through that for a streamer of unknown quality so it makes it even harder for new streamers to get discovered.

I used the official app up until we got two ads before every video and the first one is always unstoppable. Now it’s unbearable to use so I use an adblock.

You can subscribe to other instances communities via your home instance’s search. That’s what I’ve been doing anyways.

The quality of posts feels like it has declined on Reddit since the API changes.