Because for some piracy isn't simply about being a cheapskate but also about activism

If people want to crawl back into Meta's clutches I'm not going to stop them. Don't give the one nice thing we have to a corporation that only wants to exploit us.

This is the thing that excites me the most about the fediverse. If we can keep it from being monopolized by corporations, it will become a reflection of what the old internet used to be.

It's not about the servers, it's about moderation. They have a clear vision of what their instance should be like but they don't have the tools not moderators to make it so while getting traffic from other big instances

It has its place.

For example, leather in second hand products it's great because it's durable and often high quality. And, whatever you do, the animal has already been killed and paid for.

I would also buy leather products if it's for something that I intend to use for many years. It sort of offsets the environmental damage from buying multiple synthetic products.

Then again, I'm not vegan.

They are not power tripping, if you've read their posts you'd know that they have a very concrete view of the story of community they want to build and unfortunately their manpower and moderation tools just don't allow them to stick to it while staying federated with rapidly growing communities.

Let's assume that everyone who upvoted their option also downvoted the alternative.

The group A, has |A| number of individuals. Group B has |B| number.

Option A: |A| - |B|
Option B: |B| - |A|

Option A = |A| - |B| 
         = -(-(|A| - |B|))
         = -(|B| - |A|)
         = -Option B

The results would be opposites of each other and would highlight the opinion of the majority anyway.

They don't want to deal with the legal implications of it. Spez has said ad nauseum that they don't want to risk 3PA providing NSFW content to users that Reddit is not allowed to serve because they don't want to be held responsible for that. Especially now that some US states are requiring actual ID verification for 18+ content.

While Spez is a lying weasel, I don't doubt that Reddit is worried about NSFW-related lawsuits, bad press, and ad revenue impact.

And, the next step after having control of the content is to further restrict it.

Users are people capable of making their own choices. It they don't like the moderation approach they can just make a new account elsewhere. You don't get to tell them what they like.

That's for redistribution rights. GDPR is for protection of personal information and applies regardless of their terms of service. Some US states have similar laws.

You can hit them with a GDPR request regardless of your place of residence. But, if they fail to comply, you can only escalate if you are in the EU.

Political compasses are stupid anyway.

It's a political torus. Walk of one end and you end up in the other

Those were friendly exclamation marks. Not angry ones.

So far the mobile site is way better than Reddit.

That is such a low bar tho. The Reddit mobile site is the only thing worse than the official app.

They have done so already for a few subs where a few of the mods were willing to budge. In others, all mods were removed and the subs were made restricted.

I can live with that. Actually, I would be happy with that if that means those power users will be coming here.

I was afraid they were trying to turn Reddit into TikTok. Turns out it's worse, they are trying to turn it into Pinterest 🤢

We need Accidental Renaissance here

This is hearsay, but I believe it is temporary until better moderation features are developed and user influx shows down.

They are not trying to burn it down. They don't care about those who leave. Reddit wants to be the new TikTok and those who leave over stuff like this are only getting in the way.

Can't sell out if you are not being paid. I guess they just don't care, which is fine, if a little disappointing.