Noah Campbell@feditips you should really rephrase this as "don't use lemmy.ml" rather than encourage people to ignore the entire open source decentralized platform "Lemmy" where they could join another instance or host their own and completely avoid everything you're talking about.
FediTips has moved!Lemmy.ml (and I suspect Lemmygrad) are run by the lead dev of Lemmy itself. They use the Lemmy website to promote these instances.
The more people that use Lemmy on any instance, the more power and funding the Lemmy lead developer gets.