I use a VPN and have never had issues connecting to lemmy.world despite regularly having issues with YouTube and Reddit. I wonder if its specific VPN networks or blacklisted IPs that lemmy.world doesn’t like.

Good point. I guess that depends on a quality over quantity promise, which I guess would also fit op’s idea.

That would make business side incentives more aligned with the user side, but I could never see anything with a high barrier of entry accumulating enough users to actually be usable.

Maybe its free at first and as it grows in size and activity the cost goes up? That feels kinda sketchy

Thanks. Worked for me.

Took me a while to find the setting under the audio and video section of the settings, because I was constantly looking for it under instance, general or advanced.