After Snowden’s efforts at showing what America was capable of nearly 10 years ago, I’m not at all interested in letting that country have my data
“Don’t look at Jaques as if he was a human being, he comes from another planet.”
After Snowden’s efforts at showing what America was capable of nearly 10 years ago, I’m not at all interested in letting that country have my data
What a shock to read. I love his books, his story, what he achieved and how he did it all. The world was a better and safer place with Kevin in it.
What a sad day to lose someone like that.
Agreed with this.
A few years back it seemed better: fewer people meant recognised faces, regular chats, and almost a community feeling. I was in some kind of Linux instance.
Being much younger than most threw people off though, and I ended up feeling a little…on-the-outside and left.
I hopped on a week back and it feels so different now. Less community-oriented and all I find interesting is searching a hashtag and leaving.
I don’t know, maybe reddit (before the death) and lemmy have spoiled me, it just seems like random thoughts above all now.
Anyone else just using whatever is FOSS feom f-droid?
Of course the more apps the merrier, but personally open code = a more trustworthy use for me
Speaking for myself, I’m enjoying the break!
In my case, the biggest sub I help moderate has one mod who made the whole thing. From the ground-up, a great community of people, very few fights and a ton of people subscribed. It really is like a ‘model’ example of how the communities should work.
They jusy can’t understand how we’d be willing to throw it all away over a company’s stupid move. I guess in this instance, it is well over a decade of making a great place. And I can see why he feels awful.
But to me that is the only power we have…having people who will burn it down to make a stand.
I won’t be there after this month ends and my 3rd party apps go.
Why am I not surprised?
What annoys me the most is the stance he keeps trying to project that reddit is just a a ‘poor lil company, never any profit, just a little fish’.
Hearing that he wants to bring in the ability to oust established moderators by votes?
Good luck, who wants to literally give their time and energy to this company now for free? Not me anymore.
What a sad, sad interview.
It is the techical help that hurts the most. Raspberry Pi, Linx and Steam Deck are the big ones I find help for on Reddit.
But to be fair it just encourages me to search harder elsewhere, or better yet forces me to tinker more myself to find the solutions.
Regardless, it is a wealth of users that the users have given for free for so long.
There’s a good fork of NewPipe which has SponsorBlock, but a good portion of what I use YouTube for (say like 80%?) is ASMR videos.
And they make those damn sponsor ads so relaxing!
SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone make me realise when I watch something on my Xbox just how bad regular viewing can be
The Dreamcast one!
I have a large vinyl record collection. I think I got the bug for it all from my Dad!
But for digital, I just use Newpipe. Every playlist, full album etc works just perfectly through it, ad free.
No!
I’ll check that out now, thanks for the recommendation!
(Oops, looks like that was Drake and Weend you linked me to!)
I have cautious optimism that this will be okay. I’m guessing it will be the typical towards the end-ish-of-the-year vinyl release, since each year they’ve been remastering their album catalogue?
I hope this is good!
Chatted with the moderator teams for the subs I am a part of. Two of them agreed we’ll go dark indefinitely, and we have joined in on that via ModCoord’s post.
The largest with just under 1m users is still thinking about it, but I’m fighting for it.
We need to push them where it hurts: active users for their ads to be used on.
Showing 6,149 of 7,265 dark for me!
On two we presented the options abailable (Lemmy, Mastodon, Usnet and so on), on the biggest we didn’t do that. It was a last-minute announcement, so didn’t really have the time (also too many cooks with different recipes, so to speak).
I’m sure it won’t matter in the long run, but should we not try? A giant company runs on advertising. And the time we stop users interacting and engaging with these ads can only be a good thing.
As I’m writing this, 4,669 of 6,934 subs have gone dark.
Its beautiful to see.
Just flipped the switch (so to speak) on a couple subs I moderate, and the largest (just shy of 1m users) will be going dark in a few hours.
What surprised me most is how well the members are took it. To be fair the subs I moderated are typically quite tech-minded, so everyone is quite in-the-know with what is happening and why.
It makes me furious that a site built and maintained by the users is being exploited at the users’ expense.
I hope Reddit bleeds money from this silly line they drew in the sand.
You’ve been paying the Apple Tax!