Mastodon has like zero comments on any news source i follow.

Maybe because the technical people there are more concerned about their privacy and bot spam there and do not post for that reason?

am I the only one who would advocate for text only storage: no. This comment also gets my point? There should be text only lemmy instances which only save text and do not allow any kind of image posting or storage.

• text is less offensive to consume and moderate than evil images or video
• text is way more information dense and can be even compressed more! Truly the green biosphere friendly data format. I would be willing to save text only data of strangers on my hard-drive, but not images or video. Could even be valuable llm analysis training data.

Yes people could post base64 encoded images, but that is a larger technical barrier and can be detected. If image storage is really need, images should be heavily compressed (webp 90% quality loss), provided as links to external sites, and whenever possible svg / vector graphics should be preferred.

no! Have we already reached peak lemmy?

Yep many people left twitter and did not return. Basically they are silent now.

okay. So please. Stop using X. Use Mastodon or other Fediverse alternatives, even if your reach is smaller there?