Not seeing paywall myself, clearing cookies and other site data might also help.

http://lemdro.id/ ?

Added it

Avast is virus itself

Forum users tend to prefer long-lasting discussions, which is not the case on Lemmy/Reddit, where threads are forgotten after a few days.

Bromite has not been updated since January.

One of the old Bromite contributors forked it: https://github.com/uazo/cromite

And lemmy.cafe’s user count seems like it is probably just filled with bots since there’s barely any activity compared to it.