I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.
I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.
Or don't use it.
I wonder if public freakouts was told to remove the NSFW tag. That sub definitely should have been NSFW all along.
I think they do understand this, to a point. That's why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.
Yeah, it's a bit naive to think this can't go the exact same way XMPP did.
Just be glad you're on Android and have alternatives to this. Poor Apple users are stuck with whatever Apple decided to do with the app store.
There is a whole set of users who apparently think the mods are in the wrong and that Reddit is right. Whether these are real users, and not armies of bots using ChatGPT to generate content, is up for debate. (But they're definitely bots lol)
What's crazy is that Reddit admins have so much more to lose by removing these moderators than the mods themselves do, but the mods have somehow convinced themselves that they have to stay, no matter how bad it is.
Relevant article: https://doctorow.medium.com/how-to-leave-dying-social-media-platforms-9fc550fe5abf
Drives me crazy when I see this kind of format for things like programming. Nothing like pausing the video and trying to see what their code says.
For me, it wasn't so much the loss of third party apps as it was the way the admins handled it. I had never realized how little they actually valued their community. Instead, everything was about the money. Too bad they failed to see that users and the content they created was the reason Reddit was worth anything in the first place.
That was the event that changed me from "sure, I'll wait out a two day protest" to "wow, I should stop using this website."
Dang, I'm feeling pretty lucky that no one in my life uses WhatsApp. Sounds like that's not the norm.
Really hits weird when a video talking about something so serious has a thumbnail that looks like it could be on a video about Fortnite.
How on earth can a single company hold the rights to a letter
They're going to have to stop at some point though, because they need moderators. The platform can't function without them. That's why they're sending these warnings in the first place, instead of just removing entire teams.
lol without an app on my phone, I tried opening r/pics on my mobile browser to see the damage, only to be met with a "you must view NSFW communities in our app" page.
Literally 80% of the screen is just useless garbage ads. It takes some effort to actually locate where the real search result is on the screen.
I absolutely don't understand people who think the best course of action is to waste their time giving Reddit a ton of traffic to create a tiny protest on r/place that will have little impact on anything.
Rule #1 in internet privacy: don't assume best intentions of anyone. Just because it is open source does not mean whoever hosts the instance didn't modify the source.
Accounts can indicate whether they are bots. You can even filter posts from bot accounts.
Seems like a complete waste of time.
When I was about ten years old, I bought the game Warrior Kings while visiting my grandparents using my birthday money. When I got home, I tried to install it on our computer, only to discover that the game wouldn't install because of some DRM thing. Years later, I discovered what really happened was that the copy I bought was apparently not an original disc, but as a kid I had no way to know. I spent hours trying to install it, attempting many times over the next month. The pictures on the box looked so dang cool, but I never did get to play it.
DRM hurts consumers. When you aren't able to use software you yourself paid for, that's a negative. There is no benefit for the consumer, the benefit is only for the seller.
Low key actually worth a small fortune. This is a great selection.
I'm guessing that no one here does. If you're on Lemmy, you're probably also using Mastodon instead of Twitter.
Exif data is easily modifiable.
it can fuck up microsoft office formatted documents.
The problem there is not with LibreOffice, but with Microsoft Office. They do not implement the format standard correctly.
Not that it eliminated your problem, but it's important to understand who the real culprit is and why.
Paywall article :/
I thought so too. I remember looking for alternatives for when it would be removed completely.
I still can't figure out why anybody is using the site whatsoever.
lack of diversity of content
This part is bugging me the most. I often see the same articles posted here over and over again by these bots.
I mean, it only affected our smart TV. Everything else, including the laptop, my phone, and my tablet, can still use my parent's Netflix account just fine.
So yeah, I guess I just literally rolled over to another device and used that instead.
Right, I'm pretty positive r/funny was the largest sub to participate in the original protest.
I think you accidentally responded to the wrong comment. I assume you meant to respond to the comment below asking whether spez was with Reddit since the beginning.
Yeah, just seeing that it will collect data about me for personalized ads was a turnoff. There are plenty of Lemmy clients without ads. I can't imagine seeing ads while using Lemmy, either.
I actually had to temporarily block the memes community because of this. Sorting by hot resulted in nothing but memes, and it was driving me crazy that they were doing the whole "post old memes" thing.
I have no idea what you're even talking about.
This has nothing to do with the comment you responded to. Perhaps you responded to the wrong comment?
RPG Maker XP was released in 2004, nearly 20 years ago, and yet the entire Pokemon fan game community uses it exclusively. Pokemon Essentials, by far the best framework for creating fan games, is written for it, and is still maintained to this day. It's such a large complicated project, with a huge ecosystem of plugins and resources, that it's impractical to migrate to the newer RPG Maker software that has been released since.
Fine with me. I don't use the website anymore, why should I care what they do over there?
Incredibly relevant: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones
It's been said a million times, but piracy is an accessibility issue. Chasing your favorite shows across streaming platforms is exhausting.