They're getting no end of grief from bad/paid actors though.

This brings a disturbing thought to mind.. if an instance domain name like foo.bar lapses and someone else snaps the domain up (or of it gets stolen) can the new controller plop Lemmy on a server and be instantly federated? If so what kind of damage could they do?

Because it needs an extra dongle that isn't free and most headphones use an ordinary audio jack.

Charging while listening.

And above all, if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Many of those left on reddit, not all but many, are the ones who were happily shitting on the mods who were protesting. Fuck those trolls, they voted for the Leopard Party. The rest of us did a data request like it said when the shenanigans started because the writing was on the wall.

Try unblocking the ntp.org connections.

They're harassing in the sub-500K range now too.

Who says you're not allowed to? Go ahead, nobody will stop you.

whose code you can audit

More like whose code is audited by someone or someones you choose to trust. Let's be honest here, average Joe isn't auditing shit.

and is trying to counter it by throwing them some spare cash.

Reddit has no spare cash, Steve has pissed away better than three quarters of a billion dollars in venture capital. It'll probably be RedditBux or an NFT or something.

trying to hijack the company

wut

Brendan went on in 2015 to become the founder and CEO of Brave Browser, which is promoted as a privacy browser by hiding and confusing your JavaScript fingerprints.

Altering links to add affiliate tags, selling data.. privacy my ass.

He was always an idiot, he had South African mine money to waste is the difference between him and the idiots you already know.

Also never trust a message is private unless you've at minimum encrypted it. Facebook, Twitter, reddit, even here.

Of course it doesn't include moderators. Moderators are users.

Gaslighting is exactly right. They also did a fair amount of goalpost shifting, cited non-existent rules to engage in punitive/retaliatory behavior against anyone who wasn't 100% on the party line, etc.

Reddit and its ilk are not the open web, they've been showing that clearly for years with the most recent bullshit (from any of them) just underlining what's already written on the wall.

Web 2.0 failed because of twits like Elon, bozos like Bezos, fuckers like Zuckerberg and Huffman who doesn't deserve a rhyme. We don't need them and never did, they're learning that right now.

What an awful article that is.

But yeah, dude had no standing on which to bring suit. That doesn't mean reddit won anything, it means the guy behind WSB is a douche which everyone already knew.

It probably isn't which one that's the problem, it's more likely your setup.

If you can, try disabling IPv6 entirely, turn it off in your operating system and your router. I'd bet you're leaking past the VPN that way.

I don't like flatpak or snap or any of them. System libraries exist for good reason, just because your computer is stupid fast and you have enough disk for the library of Congress a couple times over doesn't mean you should run a veritable copy of your whole operating system for each program. IMO it's lazy.

Sandboxing is a different thing though, if that's the purpose then it's doing it right.

It'll probably be a giant "Fuck /u/spez"