It's normal if you accept it. You do not have to accept it. There's also a good chance that it's illegal in Spotify's case, if not in the US then likely in Europe.

It's not open source, unavailable on non-apple platforms, and (ironically) needs something like Plex for remote playback.

Is there an English language focused instance?

Actually I take it all back, the support for push notifications isn't in Lemmy itself yet. It's not practically usable for you.

Replies, mentions and messages, afaik. Not sure what other kind of notifications you'd be expecting.

Thunder has experimental support for it. You'll also need a unifiedpush distributor installed. F-Droid has a good explainer on UnifiedPush at https://f-droid.org/2022/12/18/unifiedpush.html

Pls no.

This won't be popular, but any time I see an android screenshot with a custom font it looks offensively bad to me. I still think it's important for accessibility reasons though, as certain fonts can be a big help for people with dyslexia.

That article is so bad. While still debatable, what he actually said wasn't anything like it's been represented.

On Debian 12 we could simply install the backport kernel and the performance issues were solved.

My money's still on Denuvo being the root cause.

And Valve and Steamdeck accounts.

I think people don't realise how old Reddit is, it was smaller than Lemmy is now when I first started using it.