Yeah, that seems like it would have too much perverse incentive for admins to ban users they don’t like, both to remove them and get money for doing so.

Damn, I thought they were going out in a blaze of glory weekendgunnit style on the first glance. Self-immolating a sub instead of just returning to the new status quo is more effective than this blackout will ever be.

Also don’t forget to remove the plastic film(s) they put on the CPU/Cooler and everywhere else!

I feel like we need a Redditor’s Anonymous community lol.

Hi I’m Swintoodles and I’ve tried to open reddit 3 times this morning. The site is sparse, so I only browsed for 20 minutes, but I know I can get better!

Wouldn’t be the first time a corporation says one thing to the public and the complete opposite to its shareholders.

Find me a community that doesn’t persist primarily on the same small set of jokes.

• Factorio

• Deep Rock Galactic (lower difficulties)

• Risk of Rain 2

• OSRS (stay tf away from the general community, skill n’ chill)

Games I used to play more for that comfy feel

• Minecraft (discovering cool new things in overhaul mods is just neat, probably need to figure out how to get my account back after the Microsoft stuff)

• TF2 Community Servers of the hyper casual variety, running in circles all day shootin’ dudes is just fun.

He also had a bit of controversy several years back when it came out that he was stealth-editing other people’s comments.

Only becomes a problem if commenters/posters get out of hand. On a more mild topic like self-hosting it’s probably not a massive issue for the foreseeable future.

I was about to say, it’s the same system Reddit has just about, except instead of a corporation having your data, it’s just some rando with a server.

I haven’t dug into the Lemmy system at all, but would it not be possible for the server owner or other users to run a lemmy version of reveddit? Might not be a system by default, but I’d assume any system with direct access to the data can copy it over to a 3rd party no problem.

How would that even work? I assume that there would need to be a built in backdoor somewhere, since it’s clientside rather than the oldschool data pull from centralized servers.

That always confused me as a child, since it was super easy to just test it for yourself. Turned out salt tasted salty regardless of where on your tongue it was, the same for the rest of the flavors.

Windows 10… I have Mint dual booted, but couldn’t bother to make video games work on it and have used it maybe a few dozen hours at most. School had some fairly Windows-centric materials as well that made it hard to transfer over.

Sadly superfluous meetings is a time-honored corporate tradition across all age groups.

At least for utilities you can reframe it as paying for parcels of utility, and then consuming them, like you do for food. Middleman bullshit like cloud services that refuse to let you just self-host can screw off. Having to spend money to spend extra resources to deal with a 3rd party is obnoxious, doubly so when they just decide they don’t want to support it anymore and pull the plug.

Only because the late fees and collection agencies are to die for :)

But at the same time, deflating the sales of the product has the risk of prompting the company to not continue with a franchise or employ those developers in the future.

Wireless charging?

Really just depends on if users can maintain composure in the face of disagreement (and barring that, moderation that can temper the more… rambunctious members effectively and consistently) as the community grows into a more broad audience. Otherwise the community will just fragment as they always do once civil discussion breaks down from bad faith actors of one flavor or another.

Only reason I didn’t go to lemmy.ml is because their top post was “please go somewhere else.” Lol