keep mum about energy use

Whose mum?

Fine how? Does Reddit still have a Russian branch? If not, then there’s nobody to fine or no way to enforce it, other than an outright DNS block.

Your lifetime is probably longer than 10 years.

11 million comments per day? Am I the only one surprised by that?

That’s 5 times more than Reddit in 2015: https://www.quora.com/How-many-comments-are-made-on-reddit-each-day.

They’ll still produce them and just sell you one without it.

They changed their mind apparently: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy.