I find the Demon King and beat the game.

Sorry, but this made me belly laugh :D

I also assumed that quest was the end, went exploring and got the sword/mineru “too early”. I did think it was weird that I had to bruteforce my way through opaque fog there at one point…

Under settings, you can uncheck ”Show read posts”, hopefully it will help

I have considered renting a VPS and giving it a go as well! (Is that still considered selfhosting?)

Do you think all the federated content will require a ton of storage eventually? I can imagine that I will need beefier hardware as well as my instance grows, even if I’m the only user. Would love to hear about your experience.

Do you remember where you heard it? I have been looking around for info about this feature

This seems like a really big problem to me. I tried searching lemmy for it, but have not found anything conclusive.

I found a post or two claiming that the issue is that the API is implemented using websockets only, so it’s not as simple as just turning it off. I really hope that is not the case, since I currently can’t read anything on the frontpage that takes more than a few seconds!