I'll start believing in Reddit's commitment to direct democracy when users will be able to also vote out admins and u/spez if they don't like their decisions.

Until then, it's just corporatism under the guise of some fluffy words.

I love how this statement is dripping with condescension for the people who built the service he's currently driving into the ground - all while thinking of himself as some kind of super genius.

Boost, Slide and Sync are all coming to Lemmy. Lots of other great apps, too, though - I've recently been using Thunder and Connect.

Here's a Lemmy Apps Directory with 27 apps for Lemmy.

A few months ago, the message was also "Reddit is not going to start charging for API access."

I'm not saying old.reddit.com is going away in the very near future, but I also wouldn't put too much trust into whatever spez says on any given day.

Otherwise why would businesses pay to host interesting content for free?

See, I think that's the problem.

Wikipedia is one of the all-time great projects on the internet, and it keeps chugging along all without forcing miserable ads on its users or charging them a subscription fee or selling their data to the highest bidder.

And their donation drives are perfectly fine, and I'm perfectly willing to give them some money every now and then as long as they're asking for what is needed to keep the site up and running.

Maybe not everything should be run as a for-profit business, with an overriding goal of monetizing clicks and maximizing profits?

Also forced them into arbitration, then refused to arbitrate the dispute.

I think it's also a chicken-or-egg question:

Apple users are more willing to pay for apps. So if you're a dev and you want to release a paid app, iOS is the platform of choice. So more devs release paid apps on iOS, so iOS becomes the platform with more paid apps. So users are more used to pay for apps. So paying for apps is normalized, so Apple users are more willing to pay for apps.

Etc. etc. etc.

People always call this a market failure while willfully ignoring that whenever markets are left unchecked, this is the inevitable outcome.

It's not so much that iOS is confusing.

It's more that you have to learn which things are just completely impossible to do on iOS for the single reason that Apple doesn't want users to do those things.

On Android, things that should be possible from a technical point of view are generally possible. Might take a while to figure things out, but generally, things are achievable.

On iOS, there's either a fairly straightforward way to do things, or there's not even a point in trying, because Apple has locked that shit down to the point where you'll just waste days trying to find a way, only to give up on the end.

I've got endless examples, from trying to move files/documents/music on, to, or from an iOS device in a non-Apple-approved way to sending media over non-Apple-approved channels to something as simple as syncing calendars in a way that Apple doesn't like.

On Android, all of these things can be achieved in a couple of minutes.

I used to bother with jailbreaking and all that jazz - but ultimately, to me, owning a shiny Apple device isn't worth having to deal with all the randomly imposed limitations.

Yeah. Unless you already have a negotiation framework in place, it's probably a bad idea to announce how long you want to go on strike at the outset of a strike.

It's just signalling to the other side how long they have to wait you out.

Let's see Paul Allen's turntable!

Worth noting that for the 11 years, Reddit didn't host any images.

It's hard to say why Reddit thought it was necessary to host their own images.

That meme is 11 years old now.

Shocking.

but the problem is these people want it to be done by the service/devs/whatever.

I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Coming from a centralized service means people are used to things working in a certain way, and they may just not have considered all the advantages of not being forced into a single, centralized service.

Isn't it weird that we live in a world with fake plants that are mass produced to the degree that many of us recognize them in a photo, that the table has fake distressed wood, that the floor is fake wooden paneling?

So many things have become attainable because of mass production, but isn't it weird that we live in a world where these things exist? Where you can walk into somebody's home in s different country, on a different continent, and go "yeah, i have the same thing at home?"

See, I really don't need all those people to leave Reddit and appear over here.

I'm fine if Reddit keeps being what Reddit has become over the years, and all the angry, toxic, trolling, shit posting people stay over there as well.

I'm fine with a much smaller, much friendlier community.

He praises the guy who stopped paying rent for Twitter offices as a "savings measure," says Twitter would pay rent "over his dead body," says this is part of his "zero expense" strategy, and is now obviously getting dragged into court and evicted from these spaces.

Billionaires, man. They just shouldn't exist.

And people are looking up to these guys and praising them for how clever and smart they are.

Though if I had to guess, it's going to be stuff like "build a shit ton of nuclear power plants, use e fuels for cars, use green hydrogen, develop fusion power, and generally do all the things that allow us to believe that we have to change absolutely nothing in our lives."

Yeah, we don't know yet. On the one hand, it's still the early days of (some) people leaving Reddit - and who knows if they won't go back.

On the other hand, the API payment structure and the shutdown of 3PAs hasn't even happened yet. Even people who are completely oblivious to the situation but who are using a 3PA will have to decide if they'll be able to deal with the shitty official app, if they'll just stop browsing Reddit on mobile, or if they're willing to take a look at alternatives.

The EU forced companies to ditch AA/AAA batteries

So I can't buy any devices that use AA or AAA batteries in the EU today?

I don't believe that's true.