Yeah, it's ridiculous. American politicians literally swear on the bible as they assume office and then quote bible verses on the job and then they expect us to believe we're anywhere other than at that second from last step?

The entire history of the internet has been one giant exchange of content back and forth. The question is valid, so are you just getting annoyed at the presentation? lmao

Agreed. Teslas are just giant Elon Musk flags now. One big L for environmentalism, I suppose? lol

Yeah, this guy needs to take some shrooms and reorient his brain lol

Because then he's just copying someone else's post, and some rando who saw the original post on FB will eventually call him out on it. Posting it like this shows that it's probably not his OG post, while still allowing us to see that it exists, and avoiding all the issues of someone "sneakily trying to steal content?" Jesus.

It's a lil' dry (sarcasm teehee)

Yeah, I'm thinking that each subreddit's choice to stay private or restricted is a little irrelevant in the long run. The big realization here is how everyone has become so dependent on one single platform: Reddit. Reddit corporate has made it abundantly clear that all of its users and all of its content are simply there to support the compnay's bottom line, and that their needs and preferences are completely irrelevant in the grand scheme. We need some competition across different platforms to help reel in these mega-centralized mass social media destinations, forcing them to cater to their user's interests as well. I understand the idea that Reddit needs to make money to survive, and I don't want to stop them from doing that. But with an entire world of solutions, is this really the only one they could have chosen? If, for example, they were actually responding to the AI companies training their models on Reddit at great bandwidth cost to Reddit, why not just price out the AI companies and leave the 3rd party apps alone? I don't buy their cover up story. It's all ads, content control, and the desire to press people into their own algorithm and behavioral ecosystem.