He was forcefully added as a mod on the subreddit. Reddit used to have a system which allowed you to make someone mod without requiring them to accept.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/1477psa/comment/jnuy0xf/

What happened was the top mod, who had been inactive for a while, came online and overrode the other mod's decision to stay open. This caused a moderator dispute, which caused the admins to step in, and they decided to remove the top mod and reopen the sub.

https://lemmy.intai.tech/comment/31833

(And if Reddit was maliciously forcing subs open, why would they choose r/AdviceAnimals?)

Corporations are neither evil nor nice. They are indifferent. By design they only care about money, they don't care about anything else.

Blockchain is basically a write only database. It's great for stuff like financial transactions, but it's not really necessary for something like Lemmy.

The us has 3 energy grids: east coast, west coast, and texas. As long as don't live in Texas, you shouldn't have issues with electricity.

Google Pixel 6. I upgraded from an iPhone 8 a year ago. I love how open the os is, letting me do a bunch more then what's on the app store.

For headphones I have Soundcore Q30. They're decent Bluetooth headphones, that were pretty cheap when I bought them.

I use Windows with WSL. I tried switching to Linux for over a month, but I had too many issues with Windows only apps.

I also love usb-c. Almost all my devices can charge using the same cords. The only exceptions are my laptop with a 200W brick, and my diabetes pump. Nothing I can do about those.

Private subs may hurt Reddit slightly more than restricted, but restricted subreddits don't hurt users/the Internet nearly as bad. And if we want support for our cause, we should not to hurt the users too much.

Would it be a good idea to cross post large amounts of old Reddit content?

Free speech is the worst possibly way to defend your opinion. Your basically saying "my opinion is valid because it's not illegal to state my opinion"

Hashing only works if the website stores their passwords correctly. If a single website you use doesn't hash passwords correctly, and gets their database leaked, then your passwords will all be leaked. Changing a few characters per site may help a bit, but it shouldn't be relied on.

Also, if you're worried about the host shutting down, you should try bitwarden. It's completely open source, and you can self host it if you want.

Because in real life, it's (relatively) easy to have both anonymity and trust. Online, it's impossible to have both. If you want to trust that the vote numbers haven't been tampered with, you necessarily need to know everyone who voted.

This is the fundamental problem with online voting.

With e2e encryption, you don't need to trust the server, you only need to trust the clients.

The majority of ad views come from scrolling through feeds. When I click on a Reddit link, I don't even see any ads. By going restricted, that sub will quickly stop showing up in users feeds. This will cause them to get bored faster, and give less ad views.

What are you talking about? The only stuff I've seen about that is not trusting the preinstalled keys.

But if you don't trust keys that are preinstalled on your tpm, then you also shouldn't trust https. Https is vulnerable to a mitm attack if you don't used signed certificates. Those certificates need to be signed to certificate authorities. If you can't trust the CA public keys that came preinstalled, you can't trust the Internet.

Not everyone who has some conservative opinions wants to oppress people and vote for far-right politicians.

1 request on Reddit's api is the same price as 120-160 tokens with ChatGPT, or 4-8 tokens with GPT-4.

Having an unpopular opinion doesn't make you a troll. We can argue good/bad opinion all we want. But calling someone a troll for disagreeing with you is just plain rude.

Honestly, I think he should just get the fine and maybe some community service. It's not like he did some terrible evil thing, he simply caused a tiny amount of damage to huge ancient structure.

Why should he lose 5 years of his life over something simple like this? Just give him a big fine that makes him regret it, and he won't do it again.

The news will only show what makes you the most angry. Here is an unbiased list of republican bills that were passed. Just because you see the extremes of a group more, doesn't mean that everyone in that group is extreme.

If we are banning a community for being pro-trump, then we also need to ban every community that is pro-biden, pro-obama, pro-abraham-lincon, pro-george-washington, etc.