Locking social norms at some predetermined stage is a great way to curb all progress. Like, slavery was a social norm at some point.

I saw this article posted in another thread and it seems to explain a lot. Not sure how close it is to reality, but it looks like nostalgia is at least a partial reason for this change.

Yep. Fucking nostalgia.

I know, right? It’s so weird. In every single instance of some bullshit happening it’s easy to brush it off as incompetence or an attempt at profit maximization, but overall it feels a lot like some kind of targeted disassembly of whatever made the internet great and facilitated open discussions.

Poor Apple users kinda don’t have to deal with this shit

There’s a link to explain xkcd right in the post, but in short — they’re the same person.

Can’t really say for mlem, but when using memmy: visit !main or !blind (or whichever community you choose), the post button is the last one in the row of buttons under the community name. It goes Subscribe — About — Post. I also checked and it seems to work correctly with voiceover.