I think the main reason for unreliability is admins defederating the instance it gathers data from. For example all piefed instances block it by default.

Not sure of the exact rules, but it might be something like it won’t get data from any post or comment by a user on one of those instances.

One could spool a lot of snake in a jar that size.

Honkai: Star Rail has a few of those, including right at the beginning where there’s a choice not to get on the train. If you decide not to, credits roll,

Given the quote you were responding to, I totally expected this kind of spike (although in a quick skim I didn’t actually see him using it on a tomato like he usually does)

Upvoted, but I only partly agree. The way things are now you can order takeout from local small businesses, and there won’t be consistent quality or speed or prices, but they’re not a huge corporate machine. (At least at the endpoints). A big conglomerate moving into the space may put most of the local ones under.