If the discussions have been going on for that long, why this exact moment in time, and why such a short deadline?

Why any moment in time? We did it when we did it. We could do it a year from now and we’d probably have the same conversation. We could do it five years ago, we’d be having the same conversation.

I guess what I still don’t quite understand is, if this has been thought about for a long time, is the goal just to meet this deadline and move on? Like just turn a new leaf from there?

We don’t have to meet our deadline. We told folks hey, we need to come up with a plan, or we’re going to start billing you on July 1st.

Complete mess of a CEO. I'm so glad that I'm not using Reddit anymore.

Why is Chromium slower than Chrome?

Makes no difference to me.

I stopped using Reddit and I’m glad that I don’t have to worry about this kind of user hostile changes.

Lemmy is a much better choice because there will never be a need to migrate away from Lemmy. Also, no investors, no dark patterns and no pursuit of infinite growth.

I’m glad to see this but app stores have anti review bomb measures so this might not make a difference

Or maybe /u/spez is manually changing vote counts, as he did before when modifying user comments without saying so.

I wish Reddit apps were promoting Lemmy in their shut down message to users.

The funny part is that they claim that this will improve the user’s experience.

As if users in r/BuyItForLife are interested in ads for shitty products lol.

It measures the most popular sites by dns lookup. Twitter fell from 32nd to 39th.

Now she’s buying upvotes on Lemmy too!!

/s

If you actually want a smart fridge then be aware that when the display breaks, they will charge you the price of a new fridge to replace it.

I would consider the broken display to be a feature tho.

Reddit was the same way after the Digg migration. Everyone was talking about Digg for a while. Over time, Digg mentions became more and more rare.

I hated the previous icon. The current one is nothing amazing but still better.

California already has a law for this and they’re doing just fine

Moderating is time consuming, tedious and done by volunteers. I'm not surprised that they get overrun after the latest influx of users.

I expect this to evolve like email did. It used to be very easy to host your own mail server but due to spam the large providers started using whitelists and nowadays it's almost impossible to have a self hosted mail server that is approved by the others.

Similarly, I expect that hosting your own Lemmy instance will be impossible in the future. We should enjoy it while we can.

Maybe a jailbait mod who also secretly edits user comments with his admin privileges is not suitable to be CEO.

/u/spez wants to restore Reddit to its former glory but knows that shareholders would never allow it. He decides to single handily rescue Reddit through and inside job that burns Reddit to the ground so Reddit can be reborn as Lemmy, the purest form of Reddit that surpasses even the original. Lemmy’s wild success steers the entire Internet onto the path decentralization, as it was originally intended to be.

Thank you /u/spez, you are a true hero.

It’s likely used for fingerprinting, not optimization.

App users still make API calls to Twitter’s domain. Depending on the domain name, these app users might still be counted.