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.

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.

Or don't use it.

I bet spez is really regretting that "landed gentry" comment now. IAmA is one of reddit's most well-known communities.

I wonder if public freakouts was told to remove the NSFW tag. That sub definitely should have been NSFW all along.

Yeah, it's a bit naive to think this can't go the exact same way XMPP did.

Yeah, one glance at the terms of use had me uninstalling the app. I don't feel like "decentralized social media" and "sale of personal data" pair well together.

I think they do understand this, to a point. That's why they keep threatening their mods instead of outright removing them.

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)

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.

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.

Who on earth decided to leave the projector on while they took the group photo?

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."

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.

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

This sounds like the most likely definition. But really, it's on them for not putting any sort of definition for the term. Some random person reading it will assume all kinds of possible meanings.

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.

Dang, I'm feeling pretty lucky that no one in my life uses WhatsApp. Sounds like that's not the norm.

I can't say I'm surprised. I was honestly wondering how this backlash would affect kornel; it can't feel good to get such a negative response on an open source project like this, and I feel bad for him. While I strictly don't agree with the actions done against crypto crates, especially not the marking of an active crate as deprecated, I thought that some of the other reactions to things like marking crates as non-semver compliant were overblown.

Specifically, I think one of the cases definitely was an accident, as it probably was made at a point when it really looked like the author was doing the same 1.0.x format that some other notable crates are guilty of, even thought that turned out to not be the case.

Ultimately, this is a good example of why crates.io is so hesitant to be opinionated at all about anything, which is I think a big reason why something like lib.rs came into existence anyway. If anyone has been wondering why crates.io is so hesitant to stop people from squatting crates names, it's because they would get reactions like this. Being opinionated means things will get political and the community may divide themselves over it.

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.