I left, deleted my account and any comments of value. The place is dead to me. It's incomprehensible why people are still there being butthurt about it. They haven't been kidnapped. There's no guy at the door with a gun who's suggesting they not leave.

There's nothing new, no surprises. Abusive people, who treat others poorly (spoiler!), will abuse and treat people poorly. Why hang with that?

It's like they're addicted to the free buffet. But the only thing being served lately is shit sandwiches.

Well... bon apetit ya diehards.

Don't sweat the small stuff. It's dead. Let it go.

I don't see how the app could possibly function without access to your call logs and messages. /s

OP's making anti-shitposts... Get him!

I read quite a few comments, admittedly not all. But I haven't seen this asked.

How is this 600 pounder handled? Forklift? Hoist? WTH?

I wonder if the owners of deddit, fb, tweetster, et al, might think it financially worthwhile to cause disruption in the fediverse, and even its ultimate failure.

I've sat at keyboards beside people studiously working their own. My presumption was that we were working on the same project. Then they have their AHA moment, and show me how they've hacked into our host machine.

They didn't do it for money or to cause disruption. They did it to see if they could, and succeeding was reward enough. Then, happy as could be, they set off in pursuit of their next accomplishment.

Ya never know what's going through others' minds or what motivates them.

A sucker's born every minute.

"I'm sorry I hit you baby. I won't do it again. And this is a chance for us to reflect on why you deserved it."

Okay!

Unfortunately none. Absconded with this several years back and don't even remember where.

To be a fly on that wall.

And what about $100?

The discomboulator is that the changes could have been had without need of a scapegoat.

It took a shocking amount of arrogance and contempt for the builders of that playground (___the 'little people' who made this all possible___) to so badly foul such a simple thing.

And opening the mouth only to change feet.

Extraordinary failure. One for the history books.

Like so many things, they only seem expensive until you try to make your own.

An oft-repeated admonition in legal circles is that lawyers should avoid even so much as the appearance of impropriety. And that's before taking the bench. Any suggestion that any of this was done unknowingly is preposterous.

I have an ethical conundrum. There were a couple subs I liked. I didn't like spaz' off-putting move. But when I learned of deddit's treatment of a mod, I'd seen enough.

I moved here and setup a landing place for the members of one sub to land. It was not 'my' sub. I didn't start or mod it. But I wanted it to continue. Not much has happened with it. And the founder, whom I DMed, hasn't come over afaik.

Another sub I liked was still dark when I left, and can't find any indication of it restarting elsewhere.

I don't want to step on toes or steal anybody's sub or the credit due. I also don't want those groups to die.

What's The Right Thing to DO?

Good time for people exit their wrecked cars and stand around in in the middle of a highway. /s

Change the r/ to c/ and you're in bizness.

Colonel Flatulence doesn't have any friends.

There are so many platforms anymore that I have neither the time nor desire to keep up with even a quarter of them. So maybe eight years back, a friend suggests I check out Snap Chat.

I jump on there to find about 20 pages of names of people who thought it was okay, acceptable, to share my info from their database. I've always been very careful and discreet with mine. But to have it thrown right in my face like that, whew. Here's my message to those folks:

If you think it's okay to share my private number, or anything else I've provided in confidence, with the planet, please delete my number.

Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.

Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.

The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.

Of course they were spared. Would YOU target your virus at people you know to be armed with space lasers?